List of mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert
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A List of mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert. Many of the mountains of southern Arizona are included, excluding the Madrean Sky Island ranges of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest New Mexico, or northeast Sonora, Mexico.
The Mojave Desert lies to the northwest; also in the northwest and west are mountain ranges of the lower elevation Colorado Desert, (west of the north–south section of the Colorado River of the Lower Colorado River Valley, in the southeast California deserts.)
Mountain ranges on the Baja California Peninsula east of the cordillera spine mountains are included. The middle section of the peninsula is the Vizcaino Desert; a few ranges are from the very south in Baja California Sur.
- Agua Caliente Mountains
- Aguila Mountains
- Belmont Mountains
- Big Horn Mountains (Arizona)
- Big Maria Mountains
- Bryan Mountains
- Buckskin Mountains (Arizona)
- Bradshaw Mountains
- Cabeza Prieta Mountains
- Cargo Muchacho Mountains
- Castle Dome Mountains
- Chocolate Mountains
- Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
- Chuckwalla Mountains
- Copper Mountains
- Crater Range
- Dome Rock Mountains
- Eagletail Mountains
- Gila Bend Mountains
- Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
- Goldfield Mountains
- Granite Wash Mountains
- Harcuvar Mountains–NE. La Paz County -- (SW. Yavapai County)
- Harquahala Mountains–E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County)
- Hieroglyphic Mountains–Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)
- Kofa Mountains–N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County)
- Laguna Mountains (Arizona)–Yuma County (see also: Laguna Mountains(Calif))
- Little Buckskin Mountains
- Little Harquahala Mountains
- ( Little Horn Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
- Little Maria Mountains
- Little Mule Mountains
- Maricopa Mountains
- ( Mazatzal Mountains–Southeast Yavapai County -- (and N. Maricopa, W. Gila County) )
- McCoy Mountains
- McDowell Mountains
- Middle Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
- Mohawk Mountains
- Muggins Mountains
- Mule Mountains (California)
- New Water Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (connected to Kofa Mountains, N. Yuma County)
- Nopah Range
- Painted Rock Mountains
- Palomas Mountains
- Plomosa Mountains
- Phoenix Mountains
- Riverside Mountains
- Sand Tank Mountains
- Salt River Mountains
- Sierra Arida
- Sierra de la Lechuguilla
- Sierra Estrella
- Sierra Pinta
- Silver Bell Mountains
- Tank Mountains
- Tinajas Altas Mountains
- Trigo Mountains
- Tule Mountains
- Turtle Mountains (California)-(borders the Mojave Desert)
- Usery Mountains–Maricopa County -- (See: Usery Mountain Recreation Area.)
- Vulture Mountains
- Waterman Mountains
- West Silver Bell Mountains
- Whipple Mountains-(borders the Mojave Desert)
- White Tank Mountains
Colorado Desert, southeast Lower California
- Big Maria Mountains
- Cargo Muchacho Mountains
- Chocolate Mountains
- Chuckwalla Mountains
- Little Maria Mountains
- Little Mule Mountains
- McCoy Mountains
- Mule Mountains (California)
- Nopah Range
- Riverside Mountains
- Turtle Mountains (California)-(borders the Mojave Desert)
- Whipple Mountains-(borders the Mojave Desert)
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