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: Locality
- Description: desert in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States
- Also known as: “Carson Plains”, “Desierto de Sonora”, “Desierto Grande”, and “Sonora Desert”
- Address: AZ
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chico Shunie.
Chico Shunie
Hamlet
Chico Shunie is a populated place situated in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 1,752 feet above sea level. Chico Shunie is situated 5 miles north of Sonoran Desert.
Sonoran Desert
- Categories: desert and WWF ecoregion
- Location: Pima County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.25986° or 32° 15′ 36″ northLongitude
-112.92626° or 112° 55′ 35″ westOpen location code
8549735F+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 6144963306OpenStreetMap feature
natural=desertOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q189429
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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: “Deşertul sonora”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Sonora”
- Romanian: “Sonoran Desert”
- Russian: “пустыня Сонора”
- 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 sonorense”
- 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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