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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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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

About 100 miles east of San Diego, in the heart of the Colorado Desert, the Salton Sea air basin is one of the most polluted regions in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2024

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

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

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

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