The Mohawk Valley is a valley in the lower regions of the western
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
Arizona
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in the western
Sonoran Desert
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.
The Mohawk Valley along the Gila River proper contains the agricultural communities of
Wellton,
Noah
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,
Roll, and
Tacna
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. This river stretch of the valley is mostly east-west trending, and extends northeasterly upstream to the adjacent
Hyder Valley; to the west the Gila River turns northwest through the
Dome Valley which lies between the
Gila Mountains and the
Muggins Mountains Wilderness on the northeast.
The southern portion of the Mohawk Valley is an extensive plain extending south, and uphill towards
Sonora
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, Mexico and the valley extends, on its eastern end, southwards, ending at the
Tule Desert and the
Sierra Pinta on the west; the eastern side of this southern stretch of the valley is bordered by the
Mohawk and
Bryan Mountains. Much of this part of the valley is in the
Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range.
See also
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Valley and range sequence-Southern Yuma County
External links
High Altitude view of Mohawk Mountains and Mohawk Valleyhigh-definition aerial view
– The green Gila River Valley on right, view northwest: shows Sierra Pinta, Cabeza Prieta Mountains and Copper Mountains; narrow Gila Mountains at distance.
At extreme right bottom is the north end of the Granite Mountains, and the large mountain range northwest of it, the Mohawk Mountains.
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Valleys of Arizona
Landforms of Yuma County, Arizona