The Childs Valley is a valley in the

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 south-central

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northwest of Ajo. Upstream sections are located in far western

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; downstream it merges into the

Gila River Valley The Gila River Valley is a multi-sectioned valley of the Gila River, located primarily in Arizona. The Gila River forms in western New Mexico and flows west across southeastern, south-central, and southwestern Arizona; it changes directions as i ...

in southwestern

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. Upstream, the valley lies northeast and parallel to the Growler Valley and Growler Mountains.''Ajo, Arizona-Sonora'' 1x2 degree Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982''Arizona Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 4th ed., 2001, p. 64,

Description

Childs Valley is northwest trending. The west part of the upper valley contains Daniels Wash which flows north, then west at the north end of the Growler Mountains to meet Growler Wash, the upstream, southern region of the

San Cristobal Valley The San Cristobal Valley is a valley in the lower regions of the western Gila River Valley in southwestern Arizona in the western Sonoran Desert. The San Cristobal Wash drains northwest, but exists only in the southern half of the valley. The Sa ...

watershed. The eastern part of the upper Childs Valley contains Childs Wash, the western tributary to the

Tenmile Wash Tenmile Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse about long in the northern Sonoran Desert of south-central Arizona. It forms the eastern drainage of a two drainage system of dry washes into the Gila River Valley; both flow northwesterly, and the ...

watershed. The Childs Wash drains the northwest of the

Little Ajo Mountains The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo sits on the northeast of this small mountain range. Both the mountain range and city take their name from the Spanish word ...

, where

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is on its east. The east of the Little Ajo's are drained by

. The

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borders its northeast, and is also the northeast border of Tenmile Wash. The Aguila Mountains border the southwest between the Childs and San Cristobal valleys. Childs Valley is northwest trending and drains into the

Gila River The Gila River (; O'odham ima Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of ...

and

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valleys.

References

{{reflist Valleys of Arizona Landforms of Maricopa County, Arizona Landforms of Pima County, Arizona