The Cabeza Prieta Mountains are a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

in the northwestern

Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert () is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America 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). It ...

of southwest

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. It is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona. The mountain range is amongst an eleven-mountain sequence of north-trending ranges and valleys in the hottest region of the Sonoran Desert. This southwestern Arizona region is on the northern perimeter of the Gran Desierto de Altar. It includes the northern part of the Pinacate volcanic field. The Cabeza Prieta Mountains extend northwest–southeast about 24 miles. The highest peak is unnamed at ; other peaks include: Cabeza Prieta Peak at ; Buck Peak-(in north) at ; and Sierra Arida in the south, at . A separate mountain outlier lies southwesterly, Tordillo Mountain at , adjacent to a primitive road paralleling the US-Mexico Border, called ''El Camino del Diablo''. The range is about 36 miles southeast of the

Mohawk Valley (Arizona) The Mohawk Valley is a valley in the lower regions of the western Gila River Valley in southwestern Arizona in the western Sonoran Desert. The Mohawk Valley along the Gila River proper contains the agricultural communities of Wellton, Noah, R ...

, and

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and is in the west-central Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. The Cabeza Prieta Mountains comprise the entire western region of the

Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge (CPNWR) is located in southwestern Arizona in the United States, along of the Mexico–United States border. It is bordered to the north and to the west by the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, to the ...

—about twenty percent of its total area.

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Geology of Cabeza Prieta
{{Authority control Mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert Mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona Mountain ranges of Sonora Mountain ranges of Arizona

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