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The Gila Bend Mountains are a 35-mile (56 km) long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County.The Gila River of New Mexico and Arizona transects the entire state of Arizona and the watershed covers about 65% of Arizona. The famous Gila Bend of the river changes the west-southwest flow to south-flowing then back to west-flowing.