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Table 11: Proposed Sonoran Desert Protected Areas in Sonora, Mexico

Principal Biotic Community

Proposed Area

Other Biotic Communities

Lower Colorado River Valley

Trincheras

Arizona Upland, Gulf Coast

Bahia San Jorge

Coastal Wetlands

Plains of Sonora

Cerro Agualurca/Centro Ecologico de Sonora

Foothills Thornscrub

El Carrizo

Central Gulf Coast

Sierra El Viejo

Lower Colorado River Valley

Estero El Soldado

Coastal Wetlands

Bahia de Lobos

Coastal Wetlands

Foothills/Coastal Thornscrub

Mazocahui/Puerto del Sol

Riparian Tropical Deciduous Forest

Sierra Mazatan

Oak Woodlands

Soyopa/Sahuaripa

Riparian Tropical Deciduous Forest

San Javier/Tepoca

Riparian Tropical Deciduous Forest

Sierra Libre

Plains of Sonora Tropical Deciduous Forest

Sierra Bacatete

Tropical Deciduous Forest

Las Bocas

Coastal Wetlands

Semidesert Grassland

Sierra La Mariquita and Rio San Pedro

Oak-Pine Forests Highland Wetlands

Source: Alberto Búrquez and Angelina Martínez-Yrízar, Conservation and Landscape Transformation in Sonora, Mexico (1997)

   
       


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