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83550. Area code. 638. Website. www .puertopenasco .gob .mx. Puerto Peñasco ( O'odham: Geʼe Ṣuidagĭ [2]) is a small city located in Puerto Peñasco Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora, 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the border with the U.S. state of Arizona. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 62,689 ...
The Sonoran Desert ( Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California ). It is the hottest desert in both Mexico and the United States. [ 3]
The Sandias are a small range, a part of the Basin and Range Province, but built by a different phenomenon known as rifting, consisting of a single north–south ridge, which rises to two major summits: Sandia Crest and South Sandia Peak, 9,702 ft (2,957 m). The range measures approximately 17 miles (27 km) north-south, and the width in the ...
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) [ 3] in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Depending on differing definitions ...
The Rio Grande rift is a north-trending continental rift zone. It separates the Colorado Plateau in the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. [1] The rift extends from central Colorado in the north to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, in the south. [2] The rift zone consists of four basins that have an average width of ...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever has been found in urban areas of several states in northern Mexico, including but not limited to Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon (CDC)
Weather. CDC cautions travelers to Mexico about Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Erika Edwards. December 8, 2023 at 5:46 PM. Marijan Murat.
The summit of Volcán Iztaccíhuatl, a stratovolcano on the border between Puebla and México State, is the third highest peak of Mexico. Nevado de Toluca is a stratovolcano in México State. Nevado de Colima is a stratovolcano in Jalisco near the border with Colima. Cofre de Perote is a shield volcano in Veracruz.