Day Length: 10h 15m 37s See sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, and twilight information for the whole month in the table below.
1 The Chihuahuan Desert â the largest desert in North America, located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico - (140,000 square miles (360,000 km 2)). 2  The Sonoran Desert â a desert located in the Southwestern United States and Northwest Mexico. 3  It is the second largest desert in North America.
The desert is important because it covers about a fifth of the earth's surface! There are both hot and cold deserts. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, while the Sahara in Africa is the largest of the hot deserts.There are also deserts close to Santa Barbara, such as the Mojave the Colorado Desert which encompass parts of Southern California.utside the U.S. hot, dry deserts are found in the Southern Asian realm, South and Central America, Ethiopia and Australia. Another type of desert is the coastal desert, for example, the Atacama Desert in Chile of South America.