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* [http://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm Official Joshua Tree National Park website] |
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* [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/chekbird/r1/joshua.htm Bird Checklist for Joshua Tree National Park] |
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Revision as of 19:11, 18 December 2016
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The Eagle Mountains are located in northeastern Riverside County, California, U.S.
Geography
The range lies to the north of Interstate 10 off Riverside County Route R2 and west— and southwest of the Coxcomb Mountains. They are the location of Eagle Mountain, the Kaiser Steel Eagle Mountain iron mine's ghost town, and one of the largest open pit iron ore mines, now closed, in the country.
The Eagle Mountains lie partly within eastern Joshua Tree National Park. The mountains reach an elevation of 1,631-meter (5,351 ft) inside the park, at the western end of the range near Cottonwood Pass.
They are in the Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, approaching the transition to the higher Mojave Desert at coordinates 33°51′02″N 115°33′22″W / 33.85056°N 115.55611°W.[1]
See also
- List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
- List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
- North American desert flora
- Joshua Tree National Park wiki-index
- Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert
- Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
- Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
- Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
External links
References
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- Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
- Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert
- Mountain ranges of Riverside County, California
- Mountain ranges of Southern California
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
- Protected areas of Riverside County, California
- Riverside County, California geography stubs