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explanation[edit]

this article needs references. And it needs some things explained such as:

how does this region relate to the North American Southwest? Is it a subregion of the Southwest?
what is the origin of this term? who coined it?
has the definition of Aridoamerica changed?
what peoples are considered Aridoamericans?
how popular is this term? (for example, the term is not prominent in the Handbook of North American Indians?)
are peoples of this region who lived near good water sources excluded?

– ishwar (speak) 17:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

and such as:

How aridoamerica is limited by the US-Mexican border, established in 1849 ??? Nobody can have a look on spanish speaking web pages instead of propagating "racial based" informations ?

This a very poor article....

An european dude. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.143.49.27 (talk) 00:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Map problem[edit]

I'm afraid that I have to question the map. "Aridoamerica" is supposed to cover the desert or near-desert regions of Mexico and the Southwest U.S. that had significant pre-Columbian populations. The map shown encompasses large swaths of forested areas and even a great deal of swampland. The sources listed do not appear to explicitly define this region per se. You can look at the following for reference:

   Precipitation Map

This shows that approximately 1/10 - 1/5 of the area shown on the map in the northeast cannot be classified in this way.

Is there any actual documentation that shows that anthropologists or geographers actually use the term in this way?

--MC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.88.168.1 (talk) 14:53, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The claim that the region receives 120 to 160 cm of precipitation annually is way off. In addition to the map referenced by MC above, I used a quick search to find the following: http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-166534/Average-annual-precipitation-for-North-America which shows that most of the region shown on the map of "Aridoamerica" receives 20 to 80 cm per year. LittlePortion (talk) 18:05, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]