Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)
Location	Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA
Nearest city	Yuma, AZNearest city: Yuma, AZ
Coordinates	32°16′5″N 113°25′11″W / 32.26806°N 113.41972°W / 32.26806; -113.41972Coordinates: 32°16′5″N 113°25′11″W / 32.26806°N 113.41972°W / 32.26806; -113.41972
Area	803,418 acres (3,251 km²)
Established	1990 Established: 1990
Governing body	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The Cabeza Prieta Wilderness is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area has the distinction of being Arizona's largest Wilderness Area, encompassing nearly 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and covering 803,418 acres (3,251.32 km²)—larger than the land area of the state of Rhode Island. It may be temporarily closed for training exercises of the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. It is also the reputed burial ground of famed environmentalist and author Edward Abbey.

Visitors to Cabeza Prieta Wilderness need to be careful not to touch any unexploded ordnance found, and no vehicle travel is permitted off of designated public use roads.

[edit] References

• US Fish & Wildlife Service - Cabeza Prieta NWR
• Defenders of Wildlife

[edit] See also

• List of Arizona Wilderness Areas
• List of U.S. Wilderness Areas
• Wilderness Act

[edit] External links

• Cabeza Prieta at wilderness.net

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