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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).


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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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

The proposed monument would also help safeguard the ecologically rich but vulnerable Colorado Desert bioregion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2023

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

The region involved not only embraces Arizona, but also includes portions of California and Mexico and is commonly known as the Colorado Desert.

From Arizona Sketches by Munk, J. A. (Joseph Amasa)