WordNet
n. the southwestern region of the United States [syn: Southwest]
Wikipedia
The Southwestern United States (also known as the American Southwest) is a region of the United States which includes Arizona, the western portion of New Mexico, bordered on the east by the Llano Estacado, southern Colorado and Utah below the 39th parallel, the "horn" of Texas below New Mexico, the southernmost triangle of Nevada, and the most southeastern portion of California, which encompasses the Mojave and Colorado Deserts.
The population of the area is around 11 million people, with over half that in Arizona; the most populous cities are Phoenix, El Paso, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and Tucson.
Most of the area was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the Spanish Empire before becoming part of Mexico. It became part of the United States through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase.
Usage examples of "southwestern united states".
The Seven Lost Cities of Cibola are legendary cities of gold located somewhere in the deserts of the southwestern United States.
Apache Indians of the southwestern United States settled down to farm in the summer at higher elevations and toward the north, then withdrew to the south and to lower elevations to wander in search of wild foods during the winter.
In 1993 a single outbreak of hantavirus killed thirty-two people in the southwestern United States, and the following year the disease claimed its first victim on the AT when a hiker contracted it after sleeping in a “.
Of the available satellites in geosynchronous orbits that kept them positioned over the western and southwestern United States at all times, three were capable of the intense degree of surveillance that Roy Miro wished to conduct of the state of Nevada and of all neighboring states.
I was bent on climbing the academic ladder, and in my calculations, I had determined that the first step was to collect data on the uses of medicinal plants by the Indians of the southwestern United States.
The workmanship was not as skilled as it had seemed from a distance, being not greatly superior, in fact, to the workmanship on the pueblo dwellings of the southwestern United States.
They ain't bad-looking people, and they live about like our Hopi Indians in the southwestern United States.
They had reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the Southwestern United States after midnight, local time.