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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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

For now, the land remains an open expanse of the Colorado Desert, where coyotes and bighorn sheep roam.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2022

We drove south to Salvation Mountain, one man’s remote, paint-drenched monument to God in the Colorado Desert.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2016

Dry, the land belonged to the Colorado Desert.

From The New Yorker Apr. 27, 2015

The Colorado Desert which lies considerably below the level of the waters of the Gulf of California, and has an area of about 4,000 square miles, evidently once formed a part of that gulf.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

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