This place is truly unique. The golden, soft sand dunes landscape, will make you feel like you’re standing somewhere in the Sahara Desert. Even tho, the Samalayuca Dunes are not close to where I live in Mexico, this place is one place that I will love visiting someday.
The Samalayuca Dune Fields, more traditionally known as Los Medanos (the dunes), or more recently referenced as Medanos de Samalayuca is a series of large but separated fields of sand dunes located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The dune fields are scattered over a wide expanse of desert to the south, southwest, and southeast of Ciudad Juárez. The dune fields are located in a 2000 km2 area known as the Samalayuca Desert.
The dunes are composed of almost pure quartz (SiO2). They are white or tan in appearance. They are fine and move with the wind. The wind has formed the dunes by carrying sand until it became deposited and concentrated in natural land depressions. The action of the wind continues to constantly reshape
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