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    The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch 1,500 km (930 mi) from Southern California...
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    mountain ranges. The Transverse Ranges and the Peninsular Ranges are key players in the region's climate. Essentially, the mountain ranges separate southern...
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    Cascade Range, Oregon Coast Range, California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and the Sierra Madre Occidental. The term Coast Range is...
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    the Cascade Range, the Modoc Plateau, the Basin and Range, the Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave...
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    County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains. Physiographically, they...
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    This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies. First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed...
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    Bernardino, Riverside and Kern counties. The Peninsular Ranges lie to the south. The name is due to the ranges' east–west orientation, making them transverse...
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    ships. The Peninsular Ranges are a group of mountain ranges that extend 900 miles (1,400 km) from the Los Angeles basin and Transverse Ranges southward...
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    Chaparral (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    mountains of the California Coast Ranges, the Transverse Ranges, and the western slopes of the northern Peninsular Ranges. California interior chaparral...
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    Laguna Mountains (category Peninsular Ranges)
    The Laguna Mountains are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges in eastern San Diego County, California. The mountains run in a northwest/southeast...
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    Collinsia heterophylla (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    houses or innocence, is a flowering plant native to California and the Peninsular Ranges in northern Baja California. Collinsia heterophylla is an annual plant...
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    California mixed evergreen forest (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    Southern California Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada of central and northern California; the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges of southern California;...
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    the rain shadow–creating Cascades, Sierra Nevada, Transverse, and Peninsular Ranges on the west. The North American xeric region of over 95,751 sq mi...
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    North American Cordillera (category Mountain ranges of North America)
    peaks on the continent. Its mountain ranges generally run north to south along three main belts: the Pacific Coast Ranges in the west, the Nevadan belt in...
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    on the east by the Peninsular Ranges, and extends from approximately 31º to 24º north. Elevations vary, and include mountain ranges on the western central...
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    Counties) Palos Verdes Peninsula (Los Angeles County) Panamint Range (Inyo County) Peninsular Ranges (San Diego, Riverside, & Orange Counties) Pleito Hills (Kern...
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    Douglas M.; Miller, Fred K. (2014). Douglas M. Morton, Fred K. Miller, Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja and Southern California, Geological Society of America...
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    Salvia apiana (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    Salvia apiana, the Californian white sage, bee sage, or sacred sage is an evergreen perennial shrub that is native to the southwestern United States and...
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    Nicotiana attenuata (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    Nicotiana attenuata is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name coyote tobacco. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to...
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    Albuera Ciudad Rodrigo Salamanca Burgos Tordesillas Vitoria Toulouse The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula...
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    Phacelia tanacetifolia (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    occasionally found at much higher elevations. It is used outside its native range in agriculture as a cover crop, a bee plant, an attractant for other beneficial...
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  • Sierran Arc (category Peninsular Ranges)
    regions known as the Sierra Nevada Batholith, the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, (in the Peninsular Ranges), and other plutonic and volcanic centers throughout...
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  • Thorneochloa (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    Thorneochloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae. It contains a single species, Thorneochloa diegoensis, commonly known as San...
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    Mojave Desert usually has only winter rains. The west coast Peninsular Ranges, or other west ranges, of Southern California–northern Baja California, block...
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    Coulter pine (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    of California, Montane and subalpine forests of the Transverse and Peninsular ranges. The Coulter pine is closely related to the foothill pine, Pinus sabiniana...
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    Dendromecon rigida (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    other habitats. It is found in the foothills of the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges and in other areas, in Interior and Montane chaparral and woodlands...
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    Salvia mellifera (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    Salvia mellifera (Californian black sage, also known as seel by the Mahuna) is a small, highly aromatic, evergreen shrub of the genus Salvia (the sages)...
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    Nemophila menziesii (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
    slopes in the Central Coast, southern Coast Ranges, southwestern California, east of the Sierra Nevada range, and into the Mojave Desert and Baja California...
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    Los Angeles Basin (category Peninsular Ranges)
    sedimentary basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an anomalous group of east-west trending...
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    ranges and ridges that run northwest–southeast across the lower section of the watershed – the coastal Peninsular Ranges. While the Transverse Ranges...
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