The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Jan 20, 2022 · The Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion covers nearly 647,500 square kilometers (250,000 square miles), with over 90% of its area within the nation of Mexico. It is the largest desert in North America, extending nearly 1,500 km from south of Albuquerque, New Mexico to 250 km north of Mexico City.

Jan 30, 2020 · This is North America's largest desert, the majority of which is located to our south in Mexico. This desert region amounts to about 175,000 square miles, stretching some 1200 miles south from Alamogordo, New Mexico, to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.

North America’s largest desert is home to an amazing array of plant life. The roughly 200,000-square-mile Chihuahuan Desert — larger than the state of California — stretches across six Mexican states and parts of Texas and New Mexico.

Chihuahuan Desert -- the largest desert in North America covering more than 200,000 square miles -- Most of it lies south of the international border. In the U.S. it extends into parts of New Mexico, Texas and sections of southeastern Arizona.

Dec 30, 2022 · Chihuahuan Desert. The Chihuahuan Desert is an ecoregion that covers areas of northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S., including west Texas, parts of New Mexico, and southern Arizona. It is named after the Mexican state of …

Mar 1, 2024 · The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America, stretching across Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. The desert is named after the Chihuahua region in Mexico. In the Chihuahuan Desert, mountain ranges …

Jan 11, 2024 · The Chihuahuan Desert is North America's largest desert ecoregion, extending across the southwestern US and Central Mexico. It's a rain shadow desert bordered by two mountain ranges and is home to unique endemic species.

It is the third largest desert entirely within the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in North America, after the Great Basin Desert. Chihuahuan is home to more than 130 mammals, 3,000 plant species (1,000 are endemic), over 500 bird species and 110 native freshwater fish.

Sep 1, 2022 · The Chihuahuan desert is the largest in North America and, it’s the most biologically diverse desert in the Western Hemisphere. It is home to thousands of plant and animal species, some of which can’t be found anywhere else.