Mexico
Free & Sovereign State of Baja California
Mexicali Municipality

Los Algodones

Los Algodones or Vicente Guerrero is a town in Baja California, Mexico, approximately 16 km west of , Arizona. The northernmost town in Mexico, Los Algodones has the distinction that a person traveling from it in any of the four cardinal directions would reach a border with the US.
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  • Type: Town with 8,210 residents
  • Description: town in Mexicali Municipality, State of Baja California, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Algodones”, “Molar City”, and “Vicente Guerrero”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Morelos Dam and Pilot Knob.

Dam
The was built in 1950 across the following a 1944 treaty between the United States and Mexico. It is located about 1 mile below the junction of the California border and the Colorado River between the town of Los Algodones, Baja California, in northwestern and in the southwestern .

Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is a peak in , . is located 8 miles southeast of , It rises to an elevation of 876 feet. is a rocky landform, geologically a Volcanic plug, west of –; it is connected to the , the central portion of the mountains being about 7 miles north. is situated 2½ km northwest of Los Algodones.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Andrade and Felicity.

Hamlet
is a small locale in the southeasternmost corner of the state of , in . The community is located entirely within the .

Hamlet
Photo: Perdelsky, Public domain.
is an unincorporated community in . The town was established in 1986 by Jacques-Andre Istel who bought the land in the 1950s and developed it in the 1980s after selling off his parachute business. is situated 5 km northwest of Los Algodones.

Locality
The was a sub camp of the US Army, Desert Training Center in . The main headquarters for the Desert Training Center was Camp Young, this is where General Patton's 3rd Armored Division was stationed. is situated 5 km north of Los Algodones.

Los Algodones

Latitude
32.71294° or 32° 42′ 47″ north
Longitude
-114.73404° or 114° 44′ 3″ west
Population
8,210
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
Open location code
8547P778+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2144938820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3979548
Wiki­data ID
Q1492862
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Tatar—“Los Algodones” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Vicente Guerrero”
  • Cebuano: “Los Algodones”
  • Chechen: “Висенте Герреро, Алгодонес”
  • Danish: “Los Algodones”
  • Dutch: “Los Algodones”
  • French: “Los Algodones”
  • German: “Vicente Guerrero”
  • Japanese: “ロスアルゴドネス”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Los Algodones”
  • Norwegian: “Los Algodones”
  • Russian: “Альгодонес”
  • Russian: “Висенте-Герреро (Альгодонес)”
  • Russian: “Висенте-Герреро”
  • Russian: “Лос-Альгодонес”
  • Serbian: “Висенте Гереро, Алгодонес (Мексикали)”
  • Serbian: “Висенте Гереро, Алгодонес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Los Algodones, Baja California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Los Algodones”
  • Spanish: “Algodones”
  • Spanish: “Los Algodones”
  • Spanish: “Vicente Guerrero”
  • Swedish: “Los Algodones”
  • Tatar: “Висенте Герреро, Алгодонес (Мексикали)”
  • Tatar: “Висенте Герреро, Алгодонес”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Los Algodones”. Photo: Comisión Mexicana de Filmaciones, CC BY-SA 2.0.