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

But when they got to the festival site in the Colorado Desert, they were told Ocean had injured his ankle and the ice was being melted.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2023

But they sent a plume of tropical moisture north into the Colorado Desert, which is part of the Sonoran Desert in southeastern California, southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2019

Dry, the land belonged to the Colorado Desert.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

The first was the Colorado River Aqueduct, a 242-mile conduit that opened in 1939 and carries water across California’s Colorado Desert toward the coast.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2014

Even after a night of travel through the mountains and across the Colorado Desert, we still, in the morning, find our train speeding on amid imposing hills, but now we are in Utah.

From By the Golden Gate by Carey, Joseph