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The Yuha Desert is a section of 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 ...
located in the
Imperial Valley The Imperial Valley ( or ''Valle Imperial'') of Southern California lies in Imperial and Riverside counties, with an urban area centered on the city of El Centro. The Valley is bordered by the Colorado River to the east and, in part, the S ...
of
California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
, south of Interstate 8, west of El Centro, and north of the international border. Unique aspects of the Yuha Desert include the Oyster Shell Beds, De Anza Historical Monument, Crucifixion Thorn Natural Area (named after the ''Castela emoryi''), and the Yuha geoglyph. It is the homeland of the Kamia, also spelled Kumeyaay, and may have been used by other Native American groups such as the Cahuilla, Quechan, and Cocopah Native American people. The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail travels through the Yuha Desert. The Yuha Basin portion of the Yuha Desert is designated an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the
Bureau of Land Management The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands, U.S. federal lands. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM oversees more than of land, or one ...
and is managed by the agency as a limited-use area for biologic and archaeological resource conservation. The primary species of concern is the flat-tailed horned lizard. Off-highway vehicles are limited to signed routes to protect both the flat-tail horned lizard habitat and the archaeological resources including prehistoric campsites and
lithic reduction In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts. It has been intensely studied and many archaeological industrie ...
sites along the former edges of Lake Cahuilla, as well as sites representing the use of the region within the historic era.


See also

* List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name


References


External links


Overland Desert Routes Western Imperial County

BLM PDF titled "Exploring the Yuha Desert"


– DesertUSA Colorado Desert Deserts and xeric shrublands in the United States Deserts of California Deserts of the Lower Colorado River Valley Landforms of Imperial County, California Geography of Baja California Sonoran Desert Bureau of Land Management areas in California Protected areas of Imperial County, California {{ImperialCountyCA-geo-stub