Sierra del Tigre is a mountain range in northeastern

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at the northern region of the

Sierra Madre Occidental The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the American C ...

. The region contains

sky island Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found on the Mexican Plateau and has extended to similarly isolated high-elevation forests. The isolation has s ...

mountain ranges, called the

Madrean Sky Islands The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine–oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. The sky islands are su ...

, some separated from the Sierra Madre Occidental proper, and occurring in the northeastern

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, and extreme west-northwestern Chihuahuan Desert. Many of the ranges occur in southeast

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. The Sierra del Tigre mountain range lies south of the

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south of the

Chiricahua Mountains The Chiricahua Mountains massif is a large mountain range in southeastern Arizona which is part of the Basin and Range province of the west and southwestern United States and northwest Mexico; the range is part of the Coronado National Forest. T ...

; also the Swisshelm, Pedrogosa, and Perilla Mountains. The range is southeast of

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, Arizona-

Agua Prieta Agua Prieta ("dark water") is a town in the Agua Prieta Municipality in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Sonora. It stands on the Mexico–U.S. border, adjacent to the town of Douglas, Arizona, Douglas, Arizona. The municipality c ...

, Sonora.

Ecology

Sierra del Tigre is located in the subregion of the

called the ''Plains of Sonora'' along with some example mountain ranges, Sierra Mazatan, Sierra San Javier, and Cananea San Pedro. The threats include

urbanization Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from Rural area, rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. ...

, land clearing, etc. The

riparian A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. In some regions, the terms riparian woodland, riparian forest, riparian buffer zone, riparian corridor, and riparian strip are used to characterize a ripar ...

protected wetland and grassland to the north in the San Bernardino Valley is the

San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge The San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge is located on the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County, Arizona. Situated at elevation in the bottom of a wide valley, the refuge encompasses a portion of the headwaters of the Yaqui River, which dr ...

; Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge is also nearby.

People

Home to the ''Janeros'' local group of the ''Nednhi''-

Chiricahua Chiricahua ( ) is a band of Apache Native Americans. Based in the Southern Plains and Southwestern United States, the Chiricahua historically shared a common area, language, customs, and intertwined family relations with their fellow Apaches. ...

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, who were led by feared

Juh Juh (c. 1825 – Sept/Oct 1883) was a warrior and leader of the Janeros local group of the Ndéndai (or Nednhi) band of the Chiricahua Apache. Prior to the 1870s, Juh was unknown in the areas controlled by the United States. He went to war to ...

in the 1870s, the Sierra El Tigre was one of the last strongholds for fighting Apaches against Mexican and U.S. forces in search of Apache war parties into the 1930s.

References

Ecolory, ''Plains of Sonora''

External links

Sierra el Tigre: a remote, rugged, and wild Sky Island
Landforms of the Sierra Madre Occidental Madrean Sky Islands mountain ranges Mountain ranges of Sonora Sierra Madre Occidental {{Sonora-geo-stub

Ecology

People

See also

References

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