Santa Rosa Mountains (California)

Coordinates: 33°31′23″N 116°25′34″W / 33.523°N 116.426°W / 33.523; -116.426
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The Santa Rosa Mountains, with other Coachella Valley ranges.

The Santa Rosa Mountains are a short

San Diego metropolitan area of southern California, in the southwestern United States
.

Geography

The Santa Rosa Mountains extend for approximately 30 miles (48 km) along the western side of the Coachella Valley within Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial Counties in Southern California. The range connects to the San Jacinto Mountains on its northern end, where the Pines to Palms Highway—California State Route 74, crosses them.[1]

The highest peak in the range is Toro Peak (elevation 8,716 feet (2,657 m)), located approximately 22 miles (35 km) south of Palm Springs, just south of Route 74, and on the northeast side of Anza-Borrego's Upper Coyote Canyon. The Santa Rosa Mountains are also a Great Basin Divide landform for the Salton Sink Watershed on the east. Besides Toro Peak, other significant mountains in the range include Santa Rosa Mountain, Martinez Mountain in the north and Rabbit Peak in the south.[2]

History

The oldest accounts of the southeastern reaches of the Santa Rosa Mountains survive from the 1774 Spanish expedition led by explorer

USGS
in 1901.

Flora and fauna

The Santa Rosa range lies within the

Desert Bighorn Sheep
.

Parks and conservation

Most of the northern portion of the range, in Riverside County, is within the

California Legislature created the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy to protect this and other mountain ranges surrounding the Coachella Valley.[8]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-9837500-1-7
    .
  2. ^ "Santa Rosa Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  3. ISBN 978-0-520-24932-5
  4. ^ U.S.Forest Service Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
  5. ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009. California Fan Palm: Washingtonia filifera, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg Archived 2009-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ BLM: SR-SJM NM
  7. ^ US-SBNF: SR-SJM NM
  8. ^ ca.gov: Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy website . accessed 5.11.2011

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