Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Plain
- Description: desert in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States
- Also known as: “Desierto de Sonora”, “Desierto Grande”, and “Sonora Desert”
- Historically known as: “Carson Plains”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gila Bend and San Lucy Village.
Gila Bend
Town
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Gila Bend, founded in 1872, is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The town is named for an approximately 90-degree bend in the Gila River, which is near the community's current location. Gila Bend is situated 3½ miles northwest of Sonoran Desert.
San Lucy Village
Village
San Lucy Village is a populated place situated in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 702 feet above sea level. It is located one mile north of Gila Bend and has approximately 300 residents, almost all Tohono O'odham. San Lucy Village is situated 4½ miles northwest of Sonoran Desert.
Sonoran Desert
- Categories: desert, WWF ecoregion, and landform
- Location: Maricopa County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Sonoran Desert” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sonora”
- Arabic: “الصحراء الواطية”
- Arabic: “صحرا سنوران”
- Arabic: “صحراء جيلا”
- Arabic: “صحراء سنوران”
- Arabic: “صحراء سونورا”
- Arabic: “صحراء سونوران”
- Azerbaijani: “Sonora”
- Basque: “Sonorako basamortua”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Санора”
- Belarusian: “Санора”
- Bengali: “সোনোরান মরুভূমি”
- Bosnian: “Pustinja Sonora”
- Bosnian: “Sonora”
- Breton: “Dezerzh Sonora”
- Bulgarian: “Сонора”
- Bulgarian: “Сонорийска пустиня”
- Catalan: “Desert de Gila”
- Catalan: “Desert de Sonora”
- Cebuano: “Sonoran Desert”
- Central Kurdish: “بیابانی سۆنۆران”
- Chinese: “索诺拉沙漠”
- Chinese: “索諾拉沙漠”
- Croatian: “Pustinja Sonora”
- Croatian: “Sonora”
- Czech: “Poušť Sonora”
- Czech: “Sonoran”
- Czech: “Sonorská poušť”
- Danish: “Sonoraørkenen”
- Dutch: “Sonora desert”
- Dutch: “Sonoraanse woestijn”
- Dutch: “Sonoran Desert”
- Dutch: “Sonorawoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا سونورا”
- Esperanto: “Sonora Dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Sonora-Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Sonora kõrb”
- Finnish: “Sonoran aavikko”
- Finnish: “Sonoran autiomaa”
- French: “Désert de Gila”
- French: “Desert de Sonora”
- French: “désert de Sonora”
- French: “Désert de Sonora”
- Galician: “Deserto de Sonora”
- Georgian: “სონორას უდაბნო”
- German: “Gila Desert”
- German: “Sonora-Wüste”
- German: “Sonora”
- German: “Sonoran Desert”
- German: “Sonorawüste”
- Greek: “Έρημος Σονόρα”
- Greek: “Σονόρα”
- Hebrew: “מדבר סונורה”
- Hindi: “सोनोरन”
- Hungarian: “Sonora-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Sonora”
- Italian: “deserto di Sonora”
- Italian: “Deserto di Sonora”
- Japanese: “ソノラ砂漠”
- Kazakh: “Соноран шөлі”
- Korean: “소노라 사막”
- Korean: “소노란 사막”
- Korean: “소노란사막”
- Lithuanian: “Sonoros dykuma”
- Macedonian: “Сонора”
- Malay: “Gurun Sonora”
- Malayalam: “സോനോറൻ മരുഭൂമി”
- Marathi: “सोनोराचे वाळवंट”
- Northern Frisian: “Sonora Wüüst”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonora-ørkenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonoraørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gilaørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sonoraørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Sonoraørkenen”
- Persian: “بیابان سونورا”
- Persian: “صحرای سونورا”
- Polish: “Pustynia Sonora”
- Polish: “Sonora”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Sonora”
- Portuguese: “Sonora”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Sonora”
- Romanian: “Sonoran Desert”
- Russian: “Пустыня Сонора”
- Russian: “Сонора”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Sonora”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Sonoran”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sonoran Desert”
- Serbian: “Sonorska pustinja”
- Serbian: “Сонора”
- Serbian: “Сонорска пустиња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pustinja Sonora”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sonorska pustinja”
- Sindhi: “سونورا ريگستان”
- Slovak: “Sonorská púšť”
- Slovenian: “Sonorska puščava”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Arizona”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Sonora”
- Spanish: “Desierto Grande”
- Spanish: “Desierto sonorense”
- Spanish: “Sonora Desert”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Altar” (historical)
- Swahili: “Jangwa la Sonora”
- Swedish: “Sonoraöknen”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายโซนอรัน”
- Turkish: “Sonora Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Сонора”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Sonora”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Sonoran”
- Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Sonora”
- Welsh: “Anialwch Sonora”
- Western Frisian: “Sonoarawoastyn”
- Western Panjabi: “سونورا روہی”
- Wu Chinese: “索诺拉沙漠”
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Highlights include Gila Bend Municipal Airport and Pioneer Cemetery.
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