title: Southwestern Tablelands
text: # Southwestern Tablelands
  
  The southwestern tablelands comprise an ecoregion running from east-central to south-east Colorado, east-central and a small portion of eastern New Mexico, some eastern portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle, far south-central Kansas, and portions of northwest Texas. This ecoregion has a "cold semiarid" climate (Köppen BSk). Some years, a National Weather Service dust storm warning is issued in parts of Texas due to a dust storm originating from the lower part of the Southwestern Tablelands ecological region or from the southern end of the Western High Plains ecological region.
  
  ## Included cities
  
  * The Canadian River, north of Amarillo, Texas, is the central corridor of the Southwestern Tablelands.
  * Snyder, Texas
  * La Junta, Colorado
  * Colorado Springs, Colorado
  * The western edge is near Pueblo, Colorado, and Albuquerque, New Mexico
  * The northern edge is south of Dodge City, Kansas
  * The eastern edge is west of Woodward, Oklahoma
  
  ## Environment
  
  ### Flora
  
  In the northwestern region, the prevalent vegetation consists of grasses of the shortgrass prairie ecosystem and sagebrush.
  
  