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6 unusual facts about Sonoran Desert


Feel It All

A music video was released on 29 April 2012 on Vevo, it was shot in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, in which she recorded Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon.

Hermosillo Seris

The Hermosillo Seris (Seris being one of the indigenous peoples of the Sonoran Desert region of North America) was an American Basketball Association (ABA) team based in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Nowhere on the Border

She pays a coyote (a people smuggler) named Don Rey to take her across the Sonoran Desert to join her husband.

Pichia heedii

Described in 1978, it was found growing on a dead senita cactus plant (Lophocereus schottii) in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, Mexico.

Sonorasaurus

Its name, which means "Sonora lizard", comes from the Sonoran Desert where its fossils were first found.

Fossilized remains were discovered by geology student Richard Thompson, in 1995, in the Chihuahua Desert region of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona.


Adenophyllum porophylloides

It is native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

American Dusky Flycatcher

As non-breeding residents in the south of their migration range, they are passage migrants over the deserts of the southwest US, the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts, where they make their stops along the flyway.

Baboquivari Peak Wilderness

Baboquivari Peak was mentioned in the journals of Jesuit missionary Padre Kino, who made many expeditions into this region of the Sonoran Desert, beginning in 1699 and establishing Spanish Missions in the area.

Brassica tournefortii

Today it is an abundant weed of low deserts including the Sonoran, the Sahara Desert, and Mojave Deserts, and hot inland valleys such as the Coachella and Imperial Valleys of southern California.

CEDO

Located in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, CEDO is a center for the study of the ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert and the Sea of Cortez.

Cucurbita argyrosperma

It is also grown in the Sonoran Desert region of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico by native peoples, especially the Tohono O'odham, where it is especially prized when immature as a summer squash.

Desert kangaroo rat

The desert kangaroo rat is found in arid parts of southwestern North America, including Death Valley, the Great Basin, the Mojave Desert, and portions of the Sonoran Desert.

Gossypium thurberi

Desert cotton (Gossypium thurberi), also known as Arizona wild cotton and Thurber's cotton, is a wild species of cotton native to the Sonoran desert area of northern Mexico and parts of the state of Arizona in the United States.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Three of the four desert ecosystems found in the United States — the Mojave Desert, the Great Basin Desert, and the Sonoran Desert — meet in Lake Mead NRA.

Linanthus bigelovii

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Liocranid sac spider

Two species in the North American genus Neoanagraphis are found in often hyperarid conditions in the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.

Lycium brevipes

It is native to northwestern Mexico and it occurs in California as far as the Sonoran Desert as well as some of the Channel Islands.

Palafoxia

These are drought-tolerant, annual herbs growing on sandy plains, dunes, deserts (Mojave desert, Sonoran desert) and rangeland, native to North America and Mexico.

Sierra Ancha

The classic Sonoran Desert floristic community of saguaro, palo verde, and creosote bush can be found in the southern foothills above Roosevelt Lake (650–1000 m / 2133–3281 ft), while in the range's middle elevations (1200–1800 m / 3937–5906 ft) oak scrub and juniper predominate.

Tiburón Island Tragedy

The Tiburón Island Tragedy occurred in 1905 when three members of a small American gold prospecting expedition went missing in the Sonoran Desert near Tiburón Island.


see also

A. compacta

Ayenia compacta, the California ayenia, a shrub species native to the Sonoran Desert and surrounding ranges in California, Arizona and Baja California

Alberto Ruy Sánchez

These relocations included long residence periods in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora and Villa Constitución in the Sonoran desert of Baja California, where Ruy-Sánchez lived from ages three to five.

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

They went across the Sonoran desert to California from Mexico by swinging south of the Gila River to avoid Apache attacks until they hit the Colorado River at the Yuma Crossing—about the only way across the Colorado River.

Spanish bayonet

Yucca schidigera — Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert regions of Southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.

Yuma County, Arizona

West of the county across the Colorado River in southeast California is the Colorado Desert, (a northwestern subregion of the Sonoran Desert).