Yuma
Sunny Arizona town
Yuma is a city in southwestern Arizona near the California and Mexico borders, known for extreme desert heat and as a military testing ground.
The Yuma are also an Indigenous people of the lower Colorado River region, and Yuman refers to their language family.
We passed through Yuma on the way to San Diego.
Arizona
Major southwestern American waterway
- citrus grovesCultivated lemon-orange plantations
- snowbirdsCold-weather climate refugees
- proving groundLocation for trials
desert
Devoid of water
- sandFine rock particles
- dunesWind-formed sand ridges
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- sunbakedDried by solar heat
barren · saguaro · Sonoran · haboob · dust devil · monsoon · dry heat · irrigation
indigenous
Southwestern American desert
- ancestral landsFamily territory through generations
- tribal casinoGambling venue on reservation land
- potteryFired clay objects
- basket weavingCreating woven containers
Colorado River
Major southwestern American waterway
- citrus grovesCultivated lemon-orange plantations
- snowbirdsCold-weather climate refugees
- proving groundLocation for trials
arid
Devoid of water
sunbaked · barren · saguaro · Sonoran · haboob · dust devil · monsoon · dry heat · irrigation · oasis
Mojave
Southwestern American desert
- ancestral landsFamily territory through generations
- tribal casinoGambling venue on reservation land
- potteryFired clay objects
- Eastern ColoradoBurlington, Lamar, Sterling, Hugo, Holyoke
- Desert CitiesAbu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Doha, Las Vegas
- Anime CharactersGoku, Naruto, L, Vegeta, Levi
- Arizona PlacesGrand Canyon, Flagstaff, Monument Valley, Petrified Forest, Sedona
- desert settlementsdesert town, desert village, desert city, desert outpost, pueblo
- Native TribesApache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Comanche, Navajo