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San Luis Río Colorado is a municipality in Sonora state, in northwestern Mexico.[1]

San Luis Río Colorado
Municipality
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Country	Mexico
State	Sonora
Capital	San Luis Río Colorado
Population  (2020)
• Total	199,021
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (No DST)

The municipality is the location of the city of San Luis Rio Colorado, the community of El Golfo de Santa Clara, and the Bahia Adair biosphere preserve.

Geography

The municipality is in the Lower Colorado River Valley, with the Colorado River along its west, the U.S.-Mexico border along the north, and to the Colorado River Delta on the southwest, and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) along the south.

Adjacent jurisdictions

• Yuma County, Arizona — north
• Puerto Peñasco Municipality, Sonora — east
• Mexicali Municipality and Colorado River, Baja California — west
• Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes) — south

Populated places

The largest cities, towns, and villages within the municipality include:

Name	2020 Census Population
San Luis Río Colorado	176,685
Luis B. Sánchez	5,970
Golfo de Santa Clara	4,618
Islita	2,332
Estación Riíto	1,413
Lagunitas [es]	1,217
Total Municipality	199,021

Former settlements

Former historical settlements sites within the current municipality, many along the Colorado River that served shipping by steamboats on the Colorado River, include:

Name	founded	abandoned	Notes
Colonia Lerdo	1870s	1900s	Agricultural settlement
Gridiron	1854	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Hualapai Smith's	1860s	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Lerdo Landing	1870s	1900s	Colorado River landing for Colonia Lerdo
Ogden's Landing	1854	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Port Famine	1854	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Port Isabel	1864	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing and Pacific Ocean seaport

History

The first vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico arrived for medical personal on January 13, 2021.[2]

Eleven people were arrested for possession of weapons reserved for the military on March 13, 2021.[3]

See also

• Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley
• Alto Golfo de California Biosphere Reserve
• Steamboat transport on the Colorado River

References

На других языках

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- [en] San Luis Río Colorado Municipality

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[ru] Сан-Луис-Рио-Колорадо (муниципалитет)

Сан-Луис-Рио-Колорадо (исп. San Luis Río Colorado) — муниципалитет в Мексике, штат Сонора, с административным центром в одноимённом городе. Численность населения, по данным переписи 2020 года, составила 199 021 человек.

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