The Mountains and Basins region may be small and dry, but it has a lot to offer. Big Bend National Park is housed here. Guadalupe Mountain National Park is near Guadalupe Mountain. You also have Canyon State Historical Park and Fort Davis National Historic Park. Truly, there are only two cities large enough to even make the map and those are Presidio and El Paso. The sub regions are named after the mountains. They are Chalk, Chisos, Glass, Davis, and Guadalupe Mountain regions. The most popular things to do are hiking and horseback riding. Jobs, like the population, are small in choices. Retail comes in at number one but science labs are common throughout this desert.
So the population is smart, you can be part of this humble population. Come out and visit the Mountains and Basins.
So the population is smart, you can be part of this humble population. Come out and visit the Mountains and Basins.
This region is scorching hot and very dry. You get at most twenty inches of rain a year and sometimes no rain at all. The temperature can get up to one-hundred five degrees regularly. Although during the night, the temperature can drop down to eighty because it is a desert.
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Guadalupe Peak is a mountain peak that is the highest in Texas. A mountain is a peaked point that is highly elevated and formed by crashing plates. This region also commonly gets drought, or long periods of time with little or no rain.
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Landforms
Guadalupe Mountain and Peak, the Chalk, Chisos, and Davis Mountains, and the Rio Grande.
Resources
Mountain Lumber and Pine.
Vegetation
Cacti, Mesquite, various desert plants, forest plants.