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  2. Yuma, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Yuma, Arizona. /  32.69222°N 114.61528°W  / 32.69222; -114.61528. Yuma is a city in and the county seat [3] of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064. [4] Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which ...

  3. Martinez Lake - Wikipedia

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    Martinez Lake is a lake in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona, about 60 miles north of Yuma, Arizona on the Lower Colorado River. Its area is about 300 to 500 acres (120 to 200 ha), depending upon where its boundary with the Colorado River is taken to be. [citation needed] The community of Martinez Lake, Arizona is located on ...

  4. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. /  33.267°N 114.000°W  / 33.267; -114.000. The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is located in Arizona in the southwestern United States, northeast of Yuma and southeast of Quartzsite. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect desert bighorn sheep, encompasses over 665,400 acres (2,693 km 2) of the Yuma ...

  5. West Wetlands Park - Wikipedia

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    www .ci .yuma .az .us /1357 .htm. The West Wetlands Park is a public city park [1] at the northwest edge of Yuma, Arizona, it is located along the Colorado River within the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. [2] [3] The park opened in December of 2002 [4] on 110 acres of city-owned land. [5] [6] It was partially constructed by community ...

  6. Yuma Desert - Wikipedia

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    Yuma Desert. The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and the northwest of Mexico. It lies in the Salton basin. The desert contains areas of sparse vegetation and has notable areas of sand dunes. With an average rainfall less than 8 inches (200 mm) each year, it is among the harshest ...

  7. Yuma County, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Yuma County includes the Yuma, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county borders three states: Sonora, Mexico, to the south, and two other states to the west, across the Colorado River: California of the United States and the Mexican state of Baja California. Being 63.8% Hispanic in 2020, Yuma is Arizona's largest majority-Hispanic county.

  8. Gila River - Wikipedia

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    The Gila River ( / ˈhiːlə /; O'odham [Pima]: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil [4]) is a 649-mile-long (1,044 km) [2] tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of nearly 60,000 square miles (160,000 km 2) that lies ...

  9. Mittry Lake - Wikipedia

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    Mittry Lake. /  32.82722°N 114.45389°W  / 32.82722; -114.45389. Mittry Lake is located in the Mittry Lake Wildlife Area, just north of Yuma, Arizona, on the Lower Colorado River. It is located in between the upstream Imperial Dam and the downstream Laguna Dam. Mittry Lake comprises about 750 acres (300 ha), with much of the shoreline ...