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    Donner Party (category 1846 in Alta California)
    125 miles) to California across the Great Basin, which would take travelers through the Wasatch Range and across the Great Salt Lake Desert. Hastings had...
    91 KB (12,937 words) - 15:22, 15 October 2024
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    of increased desertification. Desert farming is possible with the aid of irrigation, and the Imperial Valley in California provides an example of how previously...
    112 KB (13,062 words) - 20:43, 2 October 2024
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    Area codes 760 and 442 (category Colorado Desert)
    Coachella Desert Center Desert Hot Springs Eagle Mountain East Blythe Indian Wells Indio La Quinta Lost Lake Mecca North Shore Palm Desert Palm Springs...
    11 KB (594 words) - 05:36, 12 July 2024
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    County, California, United States. It is located 35 miles (56 km) north of downtown San Bernardino in Victor Valley and surrounded by the Mojave Desert. Because...
    37 KB (3,341 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2024
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    feature of the coast. The geomorphology of the Atacama Desert has been characterized as a low-relief bench "similar to a giant uplifted terrace" by Armijo...
    58 KB (5,988 words) - 02:26, 23 October 2024
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    The Taklamakan Desert has very little water making it hazardous to cross. Merchant caravans on the Silk Road would stop for relief at the thriving oasis...
    27 KB (2,342 words) - 13:22, 9 September 2024
  • Relief Hill (also, Relief) is an unincorporated community in Nevada County, California. Relief Hill is located roughly midway between North Bloomfield...
    11 KB (1,287 words) - 11:34, 21 November 2023
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    The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave...
    22 KB (2,513 words) - 03:51, 7 October 2024
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    and Oliver Hardy, members of the fraternal lodge, Sons of the Desert, attend a California meeting where it is mandated that all members must attend the...
    10 KB (1,106 words) - 20:51, 26 September 2024
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    46.7 °C. Also unlike lower desert communities, the diurnal temperature variation is greater, allowing substantial relief to occur at night with average...
    54 KB (4,705 words) - 18:59, 4 October 2024
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    include the Sahara Desert in North Africa, the Australian Desert in Western and Southern Australia, Arabian Desert and Syrian Desert in Western Asia, the...
    17 KB (2,130 words) - 08:40, 2 October 2024
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    Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest...
    44 KB (4,037 words) - 00:10, 2 October 2024
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    slow from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Brawley is located in the Colorado Desert and Lower Colorado River Valley regions. The city's elevation, like other...
    20 KB (1,760 words) - 14:52, 14 August 2024
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    Hurricane Hilary (category 2023 in California)
    mountain and desert regions of southern California. On August 18, the NHC issued its first-ever tropical storm watch for Southern California, later upgraded...
    117 KB (10,267 words) - 21:03, 29 September 2024
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    The Lop Desert, or the Lop Depression, is a desert extending from Korla eastwards along the foot of the Kuruk-tagh (meaning Dry Mountain) to the former...
    12 KB (1,385 words) - 05:36, 6 October 2024
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    Salton Sea (category Geography of the Colorado Desert)
    1700. Throughout the Spanish period of California's history, the area was referred to as the "Colorado Desert" after the Colorado River. In a railroad...
    111 KB (11,714 words) - 04:23, 16 October 2024
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    located along Interstate 10 in the Colorado Desert of Southern California. It lies 19 miles (31 km) west of Desert Center on the divide between the Chuckwalla...
    12 KB (885 words) - 04:47, 31 July 2023
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    Baja California Sur (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja ˈsuɾ] ; 'South Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur...
    46 KB (4,438 words) - 16:04, 26 October 2024
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    Cabazon Dinosaurs (category Cabazon, California)
    formerly Claude Bell's Dinosaurs, is a roadside attraction in Cabazon, California, featuring two enormous, steel-and-concrete dinosaurs named Dinny the...
    28 KB (2,556 words) - 23:50, 14 August 2024
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    October 31, 1994, with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act by the US Congress. The Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National...
    34 KB (3,615 words) - 05:58, 25 October 2024
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