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4 unusual facts about Empalme, Sonora


ALCO PA

These units returned to the U.S. in 2000 after years of storage at Empalme, Sonora, Mexico.

Lita Grey

Chaplin, who could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, married her in secret in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico to avoid a scandal.

Martin Ángel Martínez

Martin Ángel Martínez Velarde (born February 12, 1991 in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.

Ricardo Castillo

Ricardo Edgar Castillo (born June 7, 1979 in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Featherweight division and the former NABF Featherweight Champion.


Abrigael Bohórquez

Abrigael Bohórquez was a poet and playwright born in Caborca, Sonora, Mexico in 1936, many of which are social criticisms.

Agave shrevei

Agave shrevei is a member of the family Asparagaceae, indigenous to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, along the boundary between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes

In 2006 Governor Eduardo Bours asked the federal government to tear down Carrillo's mansion in Hermosillo, Sonora.

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

Featherston is still not satisfied, and wants more territory that the U.S. had taken in 1917 (Sequoyah, and parts of Sonora, Virginia, and Arkansas).

Architettura Sonora

Architettura Sonora (A.S.) is an Italian audio equipment and services company that produces environmental sound modules, based in Bagno a Ripoli, Italy, a suburb of Florence.

Battle of the Pinal Mountains

Beginning on May 31, 1788 to June 24, Captain Pablo Romero of the Spanish Army led a 208 man force of Sonoran troops that killed eleven Apache warriors and four women and children.

Calvin Byron Stadium

Calvin Byron Stadium (formerly known as El Empalme) is a 2,500 to 3,000 seats baseball field in El Empalme, Changuinola.

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Casa Blanca was one of the Pima Villages on the Gila River in what was then part of the state of Sonora, Mexico, encountered by the American expeditions of Stephen W. Kearny and Philip St. George Cooke in 1846 and later by Americans on their way to California on the Southern Immigrant Trail during the California Gold Rush.

CEDO

Located in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, CEDO is a center for the study of the ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert and the Sea of Cortez.

Chapultepec Zoo

The native animals came from different Mexican states like Sonora, Veracruz and Campeche, while other animals were exchanged with countries like India, France, Peru and Brazil.

Cumbia music by country

Summer of Cumbia, Los Lobos, Locos Por Juana, Ozomatli, Los Gran Reyes De La Musica, Grupo Fantasma, Super Reyes, Nando y Solja Kingz, La Internacional Sonora Show, Chicha Libre, Kumbia Kings, Selena y Los Dinos, Los Reyes Del Sabor, Sabor Kolombia, Candelaria cumbia dub, Barrio Kings are famous musicians based in the United States that have performed and/or specialize in Mexican cumbia.

Dasylirion durangense

Dasylirion durangense, common name "sotol," is a perennial plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico.

Devil's Highway

El Camino Del Diablo, historic colonial trail route through the Sonora Desert in the U.S. and Mexico

Emiliana de Zubeldia

After the Spanish Civil War, she took Mexican citizenship in 1942 and, in 1947, moved to Hermosillo, Sonora.

Emmanuel Espinosa

Emmanuel Espinosa is a Christian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, composer and songwriter from Hermosillo, Sonora, México.

Emmanuel Y Linda

Emmanuel Y Linda is a Mexican-American Alternative & Modern Pop duo, from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, formed in 2010.

Ferrocarril Central Norte

The first section of the line to Chile via Socompa from Empalme Cerrillos to Rosario de Lerma was completed on 27 August 1907.

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta

Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta is a writer born in a community called Tarachi in the municipality of Arivechi, Sonora, Mexico in 1937.

How Few Remain

After the Confederate purchase of the northern Mexican provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua, which extends the CSA-USA border and gives the Confederates a Pacific port (Guaymas), the United States declares war on the Confederacy.

Isidro Márquez

Isidro Márquez Espinoza (born May 15, 1965 in Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico) is a Major League Baseball pitcher.

Juan Pedro Toledo

Juan Pedro Toledo Domínguez (born June 17, 1978 in Huatabampo, Sonora) is a sprint athlete from Mexico.

KPHE-LD

KPHE-LD is an affiliate of CNN Latino a 24-hour NewsChannel with programming from Time Warner-owned CNN en Español and Telemax, a Spanish-language network based in Sonora, Mexico.

Los Dug Dug's

In 1964 Xippos Rock began a road trip from Durango to Tijuana and halfway through the trip,in the city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, the name was changed to Los Dug Dug's, an abbreviation of the band's native city and state.

Lukeville, Arizona

The community consists of the Lukeville Port of Entry border crossing into Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico, together with a gas station, a duty free shop, a few outlets that sell Mexican automobile insurance, and a terminal for buses that are bound for Phoenix and Tucson.

Maçanet-Massanes railway station

Maçanet-Massanes (formerly Empalme) is a railway station propierty of adif (Spanish public company) and located in the municipality of Maçanet de la Selva (Selva, Catalonia), far from downtown.

Mel Almada

A native of Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico, Almada made history by becoming the first Mexican baseball player to play in the Major Leagues.

Mexican ironwood carvings

Mexican ironwood carvings is a handcraft that began with the Seri indigenous people of the state of Sonora.

Milanesa

In northern Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua (due to U.S influence), it features lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise like a traditional sandwich, but the milanesa is also common in these regions as the main course of a meal.

Nazareno Strampelli

The Mentana variety was exported and cropped in Sonora, Mexico, and became the source of a new generation of high-yielding, small size wheat varieties.

Pogonomyrmex californicus

The distribution of this ant extends from insect has a range that stretches from Texas to Utah to Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua.

Port Isabel

Port Isabel, Sonora, a former port (1864-1879) at the mouth of the Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico

Powhatan Henry Clarke

Powhatan Henry Clarke (October 9, 1862 – July 21, 1893) was a United States Army First Lieutenant who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Geronimo Campaign in Sonora, Mexico.

Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac

In 1775 and 1776, de Anza escorted 240 colonists from Horcasitas, Sonora, to Monterey, California, and then to San Francisco Bay, where he selected sites for the mission, presidio and settlement.

Ruby Murders

A few months later, after the manhunt had ended unsuccessfully, the authorities received news that two men in a Sonora cantina had bragged about being responsible for robbing the Ruby Mercantile.

S. cyaneus

Sassacus cyaneus, a jumping spider species native to Sonora in Mexico and parts of the United States

San Cristobal Wash

The southeast border of the San Cristobal drainage is the Tule Desert Drainage, where the Tule Desert (Arizona) has a drainage south into Sonora, Mexico.

Settling Accounts: The Grapple

A general advance seems to be made in Arkansas, and U.S. forces are pressing the offensive in Sonora and Chihuahua.

Sonora Carruseles

Sonora Carruseles was grouped in the Colombian city of Medellin in 1995.They originally started as an experiment for Mario Rincón "Pachanga", who was musical director at Colombian based record company, Discos Fuentes.

Sonora Ponceña

In the years following 2000, La Sonora Ponceña participated in a large number of events throughout Puerto Rico, including Fiestas Patronales, private parties, graduation parties, and corporate Christmas and holiday parties.

Sonora, Kentucky

It is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Stegnosperma

Turner et al. suggest that S. halimifolium Bentham and S. watsonii D.J. Rogers are actually the same species, observing that specimens from the gulf coast of Sonora have intermediate characteristics.

Sulphur Springs Valley

The southern portion of the valley drains into Mexico through Douglas, ArizonaAgua Prieta, Sonora, and into the Yaqui River.

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

Fairbanks plays a hedonistic New York City aristocrat who tries to change his selfish ways by heading to Sonora, Texas to carry out a campaign of altruism.

Tubac, Arizona

Apaches attacked the town repeatedly in the 1840s, forcing the Sonoran Mexicans to abandon both Tumacacori and Tubac.

XHILA-TDT

It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and Yuma, Arizona.


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