Southwest
Utah
Iron

Escalante Desert

The Escalante Desert is a geographic region and arid desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in southwestern .
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  • Type: Heath
  • Description: desert plain in Millard, Beaver, and Iron counties in Utah, United States
  • Address: UT

Escalante Desert

Latitude
37.9383° or 37° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
-113.30718° or 113° 18′ 26″ west
Elevation
5,154 feet (1,571 metres)
Open location code
8598WMQV+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368982073
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­heath
Geo­Names ID
5538958
Wiki­data ID
Q1366782
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Satellite Map

Discover Escalante Desert from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Escalante Desert” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “صحراء اسكلانت”
  • Bulgarian: “Ескаланте (пустиня)”
  • Bulgarian: “Ескаланте”
  • Cebuano: “Escalante Desert”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا اسكلانت”
  • Georgian: “ესკალანტეს უდაბნო”
  • German: “Escalante (Wüste)”
  • German: “Escalante”
  • Italian: “deserto di Escalante”
  • Italian: “Deserto di Escalante”
  • Japanese: “エスカランテ砂漠”
  • Lithuanian: “Eskalantės dykuma”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Escalante”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Escalante Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Escalante”
  • Slovenian: “Escalante”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Escalante”
  • Ukrainian: “Ескаланте”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Escalante Desert”. Photo: Bob Palin, CC BY-SA 3.0.