Mojave And Colorado Deserts Biosphere -Joshua Tree NP, Twentynine Palms, CA
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saopaulo1
N 34° 07.718 W 116° 02.264
11S E 588730 N 3776837
A plaque at Joshua Tree National Park in Twentynine Palms, CA.
Waymark Code: WMWM14
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2017
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The Joshua Tree National Park is part of the Mojave And Colorado Deserts Biosphere in SE California. If you take the Keys View Road, be sure to stop at the Lost Horse Mine trail-head and a moderate hike to Lost Horse Mine. The park offers camping, rock climbing and panoramic dessert views.
"Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California. Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433), it had been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the park. It covers a land area of 790,636 acres (1,235.37 sq mi; 3,199.59 km2)—an area slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island. A large part of the park, some 429,690 acres (173,890 ha), is a designated wilderness area. Straddling the border between San Bernardino County and Riverside County, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and lower Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains run through the southwest edge of the park." (
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