Hyder Valley
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The Hyder Valley is a 20 mile (32 km) long valley section of the Gila River Valley at Hyder on the Gila River. The valley is located in southwest Arizona in the western Sonoran Desert.
The Hyder Valley lies on the northwest side of the Gila River, and both trend southwest-northeast. The Palomas Mountains are on the west, and the Palomas Plain, which drains three other mountain ranges, and the eastern portion of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, lies to the north; Face Mountain and the Gila Bend Mountains are northeast. On the south side of the Gila River, to the southeast lies the Sentinel Plain.