Altar Desert
The Altar Desert is a sandy region in the north of Sonora; it is part of the Sonoran Desert. The desert extends across much of the northern reach of the Gulf of California, spanning more than 100 kilometres east to west and over 50 kilometres north to south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: desert
- Description: Region of the Sonoran Desert
- Also known as: “Gran Desierto de Altar”
Altar Desert
- Location: Sonora, Northern Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
31.928° or 31° 55′ 41″ northLongitude
-114.031° or 114° 1′ 52″ westOpen location code
8537WXH9+5HWikidata ID
Q1970778
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Altar Desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صحراء ألتار الكبرى”
- Azerbaijani: “Altar”
- Chinese: “阿爾塔沙漠”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا التار الكبرى”
- Hebrew: “המדבר הגדול של אלטר”
- Italian: “Gran Desierto de Altar”
- Japanese: “アルタル大砂漠”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gran Altar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gran Desierto de Altar”
- Polish: “Altar”
- Portuguese: “Gran Desierto de Altar”
- Russian: “Алтар”
- Russian: “Альтар”
- Spanish: “Gran desierto de Altar”
- Ukrainian: “Алтар”
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