Colorado Desert

American  

noun

1. an arid region in SE California, W of the Colorado River. About 2,500 sq. mi. (6,475 sq. km).

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Colorado Desert British  

noun

1. an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Charli XCX and everyone else will return to the Colorado Desert on Friday for a second dose of musical mayhem, and punishing gusts of wind.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

In the subsequent three decades, the average the tortoise population has fallen by an average of 1% per year in locations like the Eastern Mojave and Colorado Desert recovery units.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2024

Here in the remote Colorado Desert, Lopez-Padilla, 28, and volunteers from his congregation have been driving the streets — passing out food and water, sometimes ferrying people to an air-conditioned church.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Dry, the land belonged to the Colorado Desert.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

Eastward is an unbroken chain of mountain-peaks, from whose summits may be seen the broad Pacific on one side and the Colorado Desert on the other.

From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Sanborn, Kate