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Detrital Valley, the Glossary

The Detrital Valley is a 51-mi (82 km) long valley in northwest Mohave County, Arizona that drains into Lake Mead.^[1]

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area
U.S. Route 93
Valleys of Arizona

Agua Prieta

Agua Prieta is a town in Agua Prieta Municipality in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Sonora.

Aridity

Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Arizona State Route 181

State Route 181 (SR 181) is a highway in Cochise County, Arizona that runs from its junction with US 191 east of Pearce to the Chiricahua National Monument.

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Arizona State Route 186

State Route 186 (SR 186) is a highway in Cochise County, Arizona that runs from its junction with Interstate 10 in Willcox to its junction with SR 181 west of the Chiricahua National Monument.

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The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam. The northwest and part of the western areas of the range are located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Detrital Valley and Black Mountains (Arizona) are lake Mead National Recreation Area.

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Bonelli's Ferry

Bonelli's Ferry or Old Bonelli Ferry was a Colorado River ferry between Arizona and Nevada.

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Cerbat Mountains

The Cerbat Mountains (Ha'emede) is a mountain range in Mohave County in northwest Arizona immediately north of Kingman.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chihuahuan Desert

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

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Chiricahua Mountains

The Chiricahua Mountains massif is a large mountain range in southeastern Arizona which is part of the Basin and Range province of the west and southwestern United States and northwest Mexico; the range is part of the Coronado National Forest.

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Cochise County, Arizona

Cochise County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Dolan Springs, Arizona

Dolan Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

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Dos Cabezas Mountains

The Dos Cabezas Mountains are a mountain range in southeasternmost Arizona, United States.

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Douglas, Arizona

Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States that lies in the north-west to south-east running Sulphur Springs Valley.

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Dragoon Mountains

The Dragoon Mountains is a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona.

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Drainage divide

A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Grasshopper Junction, Arizona

Grasshopper Junction is an unincorporated community in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Detrital Valley and Hoover Dam are lake Mead National Recreation Area and U.S. Route 93.

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Hualapai Valley

Hualapai Valley is a valley in Mohave County, Arizona. Detrital Valley and Hualapai Valley are valleys of Arizona.

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Interstate 10 in Arizona

In the U.S. state of Arizona, Interstate 10 (I‑10), the major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States Sun Belt, runs east from California, enters Arizona near the town of Ehrenberg and continues through Phoenix and Tucson and exits at the border with New Mexico near San Simon.

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Kingman, Arizona

Kingman is a city in and the county seat of Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

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Lake Mead

Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. Detrital Valley and Lake Mead are lake Mead National Recreation Area.

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. national recreation area in Southeastern Nevada and Northwestern Arizona.

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Little Dragoon Mountains

The Little Dragoon Mountains, are included in the Douglas Ranger District of Coronado National Forest, in Cochise County, Arizona.

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Madrean Sky Islands

The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine–oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico.

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Mohave County, Arizona

Mohave County is a county in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Mule Mountains

The Mule Mountains are a north/south running mountain range located in the south-central area of Cochise County, Arizona.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Sacramento Valley (Arizona)

The Sacramento Valley of northwestern Arizona is a north–south trending valley west and southwest of Kingman in Mohave County. Detrital Valley and Sacramento Valley (Arizona) are valleys of Arizona.

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Sacramento Wash

The Sacramento Wash is a major drainage of northwest Arizona in Mohave County. The wash is east of the Black Canyon of the Colorado and drains into the south-flowing Colorado River 45 mi south of Lake Mohave, and 90 mi south of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead. The wash outfall is in the center-south of the Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed.

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San Bernardino Valley (Arizona)

The San Bernardino Valley of Arizona is a northeast-by-southwest trending valley in extreme southeast Cochise County, Arizona. Detrital Valley and San Bernardino Valley (Arizona) are valleys of Arizona.

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San Simon Valley

The San Simon Valley is a broad valley east of the Chiricahua Mountains, in the northeast corner of Cochise County, Arizona and southeastern Graham County, with a small portion near Antelope Pass in Hidalgo County of southwestern New Mexico. Detrital Valley and San Simon Valley are valleys of Arizona.

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Sandhill crane

The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.

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Sky island

Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert (Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).

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Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory

The Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory (SABO) is a nonprofit membership-supported scientific and educational organization founded in 1996 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA.

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Swisshelm Mountains

The Swisshelm Mountains are a small mountain range adjacent to the southwest corner of the Chiricahua Mountains of eastern Cochise County, Arizona.

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U.S. Route 191

U.S. Route 191 (US 191) is a north–south highway in the Western United States and a spur of parent route U.S. Route 91 that has two segments.

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U.S. Route 93 in Arizona

U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a United States Numbered Highway in the state of Arizona that begins in Wickenburg and heads north to the Nevada state line at the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. Detrital Valley and U.S. Route 93 in Arizona are U.S. Route 93.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detrital_Valley

Detrital Valley, the Glossary

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See also

Lake Mead National Recreation Area

U.S. Route 93

Valleys of Arizona

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