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Peninsular Ranges, the Glossary

The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch from Southern California to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula; they are part of the North American Pacific Coast Ranges, which run along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Mexico.^[1]

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Geologic provinces of California
Lists of mountain ranges
Mountain ranges of Baja California
Mountain ranges of Baja California Sur
Mountain ranges of Mexico
Pacific Coast Ranges
Physiographic regions of Mexico
Physiographic regions of the United States

Abies concolor

Abies concolor, the white fir, concolor fir, or Colorado fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae.

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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (AN-zə bə-RAY-goh) is a California State Park located within the Colorado Desert of southern California, United States.

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Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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Baja California desert

The Baja California desert (desierto de Baja California) is a desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

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Baja California peninsula

The Baja California peninsula (lit) is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico.

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Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur ('South Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal entities which comprise the 31 States of Mexico.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California chaparral and woodlands

The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America.

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California mixed evergreen forest

California mixed evergreen forest is a plant community found in the mountain ranges of California and southwestern Oregon.

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California montane chaparral and woodlands

The California montane chaparral and woodlands is an ecoregion defined by the World Wildlife Fund, spanning of mountains in the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Coast Ranges of southern and central California.

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California oak woodland

California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico.

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Calocedrus

Calocedrus, the incense cedar (alternatively spelled incense-cedar), is a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae first described as a genus in 1873.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Cleveland National Forest

The Cleveland National Forest encompasses 460,000 acres/ of inland montane regions—approx.

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Colorado Desert

Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States and Baja California, Mexico.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Coulter pine

Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), or big-cone pine, is a native of the coastal mountains of Southern California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

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Gulf of California xeric scrub

The Gulf of California xeric scrub (Matorral xerófilo del Golfo de California) is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.

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Hollywood fault

The Hollywood fault is an active fault of approximately in length located along the northern edge of the Los Angeles basin.

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Juniper

Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Laguna Mountains

The Laguna Mountains are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System in eastern San Diego County, southern California. Peninsular Ranges and Laguna Mountains are mountain ranges of Southern California.

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List of mountain ranges

This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies. Peninsular Ranges and list of mountain ranges are lists of mountain ranges.

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Loreto, Baja California Sur

Loreto is a city and municipal seat of Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur, on the West Coast of Mexico.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Nearctic realm

The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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Pacific coast

Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Coast Ranges

The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and Pacific Coast Ranges are mountain ranges of Baja California, mountain ranges of Baja California Sur, mountain ranges of Mexico, physiographic regions of Mexico and physiographic regions of the United States.

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Palomar Mountain

Palomar Mountain (Monte Palomar) is a mountain ridge in the Peninsular Ranges in northern San Diego County.

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Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States.

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Perris Block

The Perris Block is the central block of three major fault-bounded blocks of the northern part of the Peninsular Ranges.

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Picacho del Diablo

italic ('Devil's Peak') is the highest peak on the Baja California peninsula, measuring. Peninsular Ranges and Picacho del Diablo are mountain ranges of Baja California.

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Pinus contorta

Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America.

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Pinus jeffreyi

Pinus jeffreyi, also known as Jeffrey pine, Jeffrey's pine, yellow pine and black pine, is a North American pine tree.

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Pinus lambertiana

Pinus lambertiana (commonly known as the sugar pine or sugar cone pine) is the tallest and most massive pine tree, and has the longest cones of any conifer.

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Pinus quadrifolia

Pinus quadrifolia, the Parry pinyon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group native to southernmost California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, from 33° 30' N south to 30° 30' N. The Parry pinyon has a lifespan of around 200 to 500 years.

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Quercus agrifolia

Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, or coast live oak, is an evergreen live oak native to the California Floristic Province.

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Quercus chrysolepis

Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed canyon live oak, canyon oak, golden cup oak or maul oak, is a North American species of evergreen oak that is found in Mexico and in the western United States, notably in the California Coast Ranges.

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Quercus engelmannii

Quercus engelmannii, the Engelmann oak or Pasadena oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section (Quercus sect. Quercus), native to southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.

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Quercus peninsularis

Quercus peninsularis, common name peninsular oak, is a species of oak endemic to Baja California, Mexico.

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Salinian Block

The Salinian Block or Salinian terrane is a geologic terrane which lies west of the main trace of the San Andreas Fault system in California.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County, officially the County of San Diego (Condado de San Diego), is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California.

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San Jacinto Mountains

The San Jacinto Mountains (Avii Hanupach)Munro, P., et al. Peninsular Ranges and San Jacinto Mountains are mountain ranges of Southern California.

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San Jacinto Peak

San Jacinto Peak (often designated Mount San Jacinto) is a peak in the San Jacinto Mountains, in Riverside County, California.

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San Lucan xeric scrub

The San Lucan xeric scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of the southernmost Baja California Peninsula, in Los Cabos Municipality and eastern La Paz Municipality of southern Baja California Sur state, Mexico.

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San Ysidro Mountains

The San Ysidro Mountains are a mountain range in southern San Diego County, California and Baja California, Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and San Ysidro Mountains are mountain ranges of Baja California and mountain ranges of Southern California.

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Santa Ana Mountains

The Santa Ana Mountains are a short peninsular mountain range along the coast of Southern California in the United States. Peninsular Ranges and Santa Ana Mountains are mountain ranges of Southern California.

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Santa Maria Valley (San Diego County)

Santa Maria Valley is a valley in northeastern San Diego County, California.

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Sierra de Juárez

The Sierra de Juárez, also known as the Sierra Juarez, is a mountain range located in Tecate Municipality and northern Ensenada Municipality, within the northern Baja California state of northwestern Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra de Juárez are mountain ranges of Baja California.

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Sierra de la Giganta

The Sierra de la Giganta is a mountain range of eastern Baja California Sur state, located on the southern Baja California Peninsula in northwestern Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra de la Giganta are mountain ranges of Baja California Sur.

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Sierra de la Laguna

The Sierra de la Laguna is a mountain range at the southern end of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico, and is the southernmost range of the Peninsular Ranges System. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra de la Laguna are mountain ranges of Baja California Sur.

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Sierra de la Laguna dry forests

The Sierra de la Laguna dry forests are a subtropical dry forest ecoregion of the southern Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.

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Sierra de la Laguna pine–oak forests

The Sierra de la Laguna pine–oak forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion, found in the Sierra de la Laguna mountain range at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.

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Sierra de San Borja

The Sierra de San Borja, also known as Sierra La Libertad is a mountain range on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra de San Borja are mountain ranges of Baja California and mountain ranges of Mexico.

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Sierra de San Francisco

The Sierra de San Francisco is a mountain range in Mulegé Municipality of the northern region of Baja California Sur state, in northwestern Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra de San Francisco are mountain ranges of Baja California Sur.

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Sierra de San Pedro Mártir

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir (Kiliwa: ʔxaal haq, mountains of Saint Peter the Martyr) is a mountain range located within southern Ensenada Municipality and southern Baja California state, of northwestern Mexico. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra de San Pedro Mártir are mountain ranges of Baja California.

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Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine–oak forests

The Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine–oak forests is a Nearctic temperate coniferous forests ecoregion that covers the higher elevations of the Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir ranges of the Peninsular Ranges, of the northern Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.

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Sierra Nevada

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. Peninsular Ranges and Sierra Nevada are geologic provinces of California and physiographic sections.

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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). Peninsular Ranges and Sonoran Desert are geologic provinces of California, physiographic regions of Mexico, physiographic regions of the United States and physiographic sections.

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Southern California

Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Temescal Mountains

The Temescal Mountains, also known as the Sierra Temescal (Spanish for "sweat lodge range"), are one of the northernmost mountain ranges of the Peninsular Ranges in western Riverside County, in Southern California in the United States. Peninsular Ranges and Temescal Mountains are mountain ranges of Southern California.

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Transverse Ranges

The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America. Peninsular Ranges and Transverse Ranges are geologic provinces of California, mountain ranges of Southern California, Pacific Coast Ranges and physiographic sections.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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