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unusual facts about Nogales, Sonora


Pajarito Mountains

Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora lie at the eastern foothills of the range in the upper region of the north-south Santa Cruz River Valley, and in the I-17 corridor.


51430 Ireneclaire

It was discovered at the Tenagra II Observatory in Nogales, Arizona, on March 20, 2001.

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.

Arizona State Route 289

State Route 289 (SR 289) is a highway in Santa Cruz County, Arizona that runs from its junction with Interstate 19, old U.S. Route 89 to the north of Nogales to Peña Blanca Lake.

Battle of Ambos Nogales

During the November 1915 Battle of Nogales fought between the forces of Francisco Villa and Venustiano Carranza (led by General Alvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles), one U.S. serviceman, Private Stephen B. Little, was killed by a stray bullet as U.S troops guarded the border in Nogales from the violence in Mexico.

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.

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.

Fennemore Craig

Nogales - 420 W. Mariposa Road, Suite 200 Nogales, AZ 85621

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 Basaes

Gerardo Patricio Basaes Bórquez (born July 27, 1989 in Catapilco, Quillota Province) is a Chilean footballer.

Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta

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

Hispanicization

Laredo, Texas; Chimayo, New Mexico; and Nogales, Arizona, for example, all have Hispanic populations greater than 90 percent.

Horne v. Flores

The case was brought in 1992 by English Language Learner (ELL) students against the state board of education and state superintendent on the grounds that the Nogales Unified School District had failed to teach the students English, which was vital to their success.

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.

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.

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.

Mohammad Vali Mirza Farman Farmaian

Mohammad Vali Mirza escaped only at the last minute because he spoke to the general in French, prompting the general to realize, as Nogales wrote in his memoirs, "that he was a prince of the lineage of Farman Farma."

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.

Nogales Municipality, Sonora

It seems that the tank had been bought in 1927 for fighting the Yaquis, but U.S. officials prohibited it from leaving the U.S., and it had been kept in a warehouse in Nogales, Arizona.

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.


see also

Vernon Perez Rubio

In 1996 he becomes Shareholder of Edificaciones Modernas de Sonora S.A. de C.V., a housing construction company in Nogales, Sonora.