Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 545

TABLE 31.2
Detail of Figure 31.8, ProtoSpaces of El Paso and Juarez

Elevation
(ft)

Area
(Mile 2 )

Geographic
Features S. No. Name Country Desert Location Population Density History

1 El Paso United

States

Chihuahuan
desert

31°47′ 25″N
106°25′ 24″W

3740 250.5 736,310

(2006)

2,446/mile 2 1680 Rio Grande

river,
Franklin
Mountain,
Heuco
Bolson

Ciudad
Juarez

Mexico Chihuahuan

desert

31°43′ 4″N
106°25′ 17W

3675 72.6 1,400,891

(2005)

12,167/mile 2 El Paso del

Norte 1659

Rio Grande
river, Juarez
Mountain,
Hueco
Bolson

2 Yazd Iran Dasht-e

Kavir desert

31°30′ 0 N
54°30′ 0 E

3990 6177 505,037

(2006)

81.8/mile 2 AD 226-640 Shir Kuh

mountain
(4075 m)

3 Jaipur India Thar desert 26.92°N

75.82°E

1417 77 3,324,319

(2005)

42,963/mile 2 1727 Major

rivers—
Banas and
Banganga

4 Alice

Springs

Australia Simpson

desert

23°41′ 60S
133°52′ 60E

1998 57.1 26,486

(2006)

461.0/mile 2 1872 Todd River,

MacDonnell
Ranges

5 San Pedro

de Atacama

Chile Atacama

desert
(aridest
desert)

22°55′S
68°15′W

7900 9,049 4,969

(2002)

0.5/mile 2 1450 Arid High

Plateau,
Oasis

6 Ghanzi Bostwana Kalahari

desert

21-42S
021-39E

3710 45,525

(district)

36,675
district

0.8/mile 2 Bushman;

irst white
settlers
came in
1874

Terrain is lat
and
featureless