Wyoming Basin physiographic province

The Wyoming Basin ( engl. Wyoming Basin ) is an arid basin landscape in the central and northwestern part of the United States of America. It occupies nearly two-thirds of the U.S. state of Wyoming and separates the main thing - located mainly in Colorado - Southern Rocky Mountains of the central Rocky Mountains, which extend from northwest Wyoming toward Canada. The 140,000 km ² basin lies in the rain shadow of the Rockies at an altitude of about 2000 meters, falls from about the center in the northern course continuously and reaches to its northern border in Montana still about 1,300 meters in height.

The majority of the intermontane basin located in the U.S. state of Wyoming, where it is bounded on the east of the Bighorn and the Laramie Mountains in the west of the central Rocky Mountains ( Absaroka and Wind River Range ) and. The south-western and southern border lies mainly in one of the neighboring states; in the southwest of the Wyoming Basin extends to the Bear River Range in Idaho and Utah, as well as to the Uinta Mountains in Utah and Colorado. Further east form Park Range and Medicine Bow Mountains, the southern and the southeastern boundary of the Laramiegebirge finally the Wyoming Basin. It extends Situated between Park Range and Medicine Bow Mountains valley of the North Platte River to Rabbit Ears Range again up to Colorado.

The Wyoming Basin is a vast steppe landscape, especially sagebrush ( Sagebrush ), wheat grasses and Shadscales, shrubby steppe plants, dominated and is repeatedly interrupted by larger hills and small mountain chains. But particularly in the southern and southwestern part of the basin also includes large areas barren soil and sparse vegetation; this includes in particular the endorheic Great Divide Basin in Wyoming's " Red Desert " ( Red Desert ), with its many sand dunes and salt flats. It is the only major region in the basin, which none of the three river systems ( Green River, Bighorn River and North Platte River) is irrigated. In the northern part, however, irrigation systems provide a higher level of agricultural use.

42.523422 - 109.652504Koordinaten: 42 ° 31 ' 24 "N, 109 ° 39 ' 9 " W

  • Geography (Wyoming)
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  • Geography (Montana)
  • Geography (Utah )
  • Geography (Idaho )
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