Photo: Gary Nored, Big Bend Ranch State Park (Some rights reserved)
The Chihuahuan Desert // Desierto de Chihuahua is the largest of the deserts in North America, centered in between the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental in the USA/Mexico borderlands.
This is a high desert – the peaks are generally 1,500 meters high and the basins 700 meters above sea level. Three-fourths of the desert lies in Mexico. Native species include the creosote bush, lechugilla, and candelilla. Cacti number more than 250 – more than in any other North American desert.
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