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The Jornada del Muerto (Spanish for "single day's journey of the dead man"〔Wormser, Richard Edward (1966) ''The Yellowlegs: The Story of the United States Cavalry'' Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., page 70, 〕〔Wislizenus, Frederick Adolph (1969) ''Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: Connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition, in 1846 and 1847'' Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, NM, page 38, , originally published in 1848 by the U.S. Government, Tippin & Streeper, printers, Washingtonb, D.C.〕 hence "route of the dead man"〔 ''But recently historian Fray Angélico Chávez of Santa Fe has pointed out that the Spanish phrase actually means the "Route of the Dead Man."'' Simmons, Marc (1978) ''Taos to Tomé: True Tales of Hispanic New Mexico'' Adobe Press, Albuquerque, N.M., (page 28 ), ISBN 0-933004-04-4〕) in the U.S. state of New Mexico was the name given by the Spanish conquistadors to the Jornada del Muerto Desert basin, and the particularly dry stretch of a route through it. The trail led northward from central Spanish colonial New Spain, present-day Mexico, to the farthest reaches of the viceroyalty in northern Nuevo México Province. The route later became El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. ==Natural history== The Jornada del Muerto Desert ecoregion, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, is a wide and long stretch of flat desert landforms and xeric habitat about from north to south. The desert runs between the Oscura Mountains and San Andres Mountains on the east, and the Fra Cristóbal Range and Caballo Mountains on the west. The western mountains block access to the Rio Grande, the most reliable water source in the region. The Jornada del Muerto Desert remains almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped to the present day. Located just to the east of the southernmost region of the desert is the Jornada Basin LTER station, used for study of desert ecology, land management, plant physiology, and related topics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jornada del Muerto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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