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Originally Posted by rybert
... don't believe ABQ is located within
the boundaries of any specific desert.
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The upper Chihuahuan Desert. The Life Zone where native
plants found in Albuquerque is called the Upper Sonoran
which is classified as desert.
I know that some maps don't show Albuquerque as being
actually *in* the Chihuahuan Desert, but others do.
I go for this description:
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The Chihuahuan Desert sits across the U.S.-Mexico border, and
comprises approximately 140,000 square miles. In the U.S., the
desert stretches just north of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
into Texas west of the Pecos River. It encompasses the
northern half of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico and most of
the state of Coahuila. Higher in altitude than its neighbor to
the west, the Sonoran Desert, the Chihuahuan Desert ranges
in elevation from 1,500 feet to about 5,000 feet. It has been
described by the World Nature Fund as perhaps the most
biodiverse desert in the world.
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What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
Note that a desert doesn't actually have to be hot.
Most of Antarctica is a desert. Canada has deserts.
List of North American deserts
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