Granite Wash Mountains
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| Highest peak | Salome Peak ( 1216 m ) | |
| location | La Paz County , Arizona , United States | |
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 50 ′ N , 113 ° 43 ′ W | |
The Granite Wash Mountains are a short, arid, flat mountain range in west-central Arizona in the United States . The area is located in the southeast of La Paz County and borders a slightly larger mountain range to the southeast, the Little Harquahala Mountains .
description
The mountain range extends from northwest to southeast and is located in a region with about thirty landforms, plains, valleys and mountain ranges known as the Maria fold and thrust belt . The region is part of the Basin and Range Province and three mountain ranges are located in a parallel, northwest-southeast running thrust belt with two valleys in between. The Granite Wash Mountains are located at the southwest end of the Harcuvar Mountains .
The Granite Wash Mountains lie on the same watershed as the Little Harquahala Mountains and at the southwest end of the McMullen Valley . To the east, the mountain range forces the Centennial Wash , which drains the valley when it rains, to turn southwest to southeast and flow towards the Gila River at the Gila Bend Mountains . To the west of the Granite Wash Mountains, the Bouse Wash flows northwest to the Colorado River .
Mountains and surroundings
The highest point in the mountains is Salome Peak at 1216 m (3991 feet) in the center of the mountains.
The Granite Wash Pass is located at the northwest end of the southern neighboring range, between the Granite Wash Mountains and Little Harquahala Mountains. The place Hope lies west and Harcuvar lies east. The Arizona and California Railroad and US Route 60 , which runs northeast from Interstate 10 towards Aguila and Wickenburg , run over the pass.
Web links
- Granite Wash Mountains in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Granite Wash Mountains on Peakbagger.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, 1998, pp. 72-73.
- ↑ Granite Wash Mountains on Peakbagger.com (English)