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Sonoran Desert

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Sonoran Desert – Virtual Field Trip

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Sonoran Desert (North America Wild Wild Life)

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Nature: Arizona's Sonoran Desert

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Saguaro Wilderness: A Day in the Desert

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Unique plants of the Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is the hottest desert in Mexico. It has an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi). The western portion of the United States–Mexico border passes through the Sonoran Desert.