Agua Prieta

Agua Prieta is a city of 91,000 people in on Mexico's border with the United States across from Douglas, Arizona.
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  • Type: City with 91,000 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Agua Prieta, State of Sonora, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Agua Prieta”, “Heroica Agua Prieta”, and “Heroica Ciudad de Agua Prieta”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Douglas, Arizona Port of Entry and Gadsden Hotel.

Border checkpoint
Photo: Wbaron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a port of entry on the Mexico–United States border. It connects with Agua Prieta, . It is near the southern terminus of U.S. Route 191 in Arizona and the northern terminus of Mexican Federal Highway 17, which connect the towns of Douglas and Agua Prieta to their respective national highway networks.

Hotel
Photo: Tillman, CC BY 2.0.
The is a historic hotel in , . It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The hotel is owned by Bright Brains Hospitality…

School
is a public high school in . The school enrolled 1,378 in the 2011–2012 school year who primarily come from two feeder schools, Paul Huber Middle School and Ray Borane Middle School, both located in Douglas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Douglas and Pirtleville.

Photo: StellarD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in Cochise County, . While known primarily as a gateway to Mexico, its small downtown core has a few well-preserved examples of early 20th-century architecture.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 1,744 at the 2010 census.

Agua Prieta

Latitude
31.3267° or 31° 19′ 36″ north
Longitude
-109.5463° or 109° 32′ 47″ west
Population
91,000
Elevation
1,219 metres (3,999 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX APR
Open location code
853G8FG3+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299491891
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4019260
Wiki­data ID
Q397759
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Agua Prieta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اغوا بريتا”
  • Bengali: “আগুয়া প্রিয়েতা”
  • Catalan: “Agua Prieta”
  • Cebuano: “Agua Prieta”
  • Chechen: “Агва Прьета (Агва Прьета, Сонора)”
  • Chechen: “Агва Прьета”
  • Chinese: “阿瓜普列塔”
  • Chinese: “阿瓜普里伊塔”
  • Czech: “Agua Prieta”
  • Danish: “Agua Prieta”
  • Dutch: “Agua Prieta”
  • Dutch: “Aguaprieta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اجوا بريتا”
  • Esperanto: “Agua Prieta”
  • Finnish: “Agua Prieta”
  • French: “Agua Prieta”
  • German: “Agua Prieta”
  • Greek: “Άγκουα Πριέτα”
  • Gujarati: “એગુઆ પ્રિએટા”
  • Hindi: “आगा प्रीटा”
  • Hungarian: “Agua Prieta”
  • Indonesian: “Agua Prieta”
  • Italian: “Agua Prieta”
  • Japanese: “アグア・プリエタ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಗುವಾ ಪ್ರೀತಾ”
  • Korean: “아과프리에타”
  • Korean: “아구아 프리에타”
  • Latvian: “Aguaprieta”
  • Lithuanian: “Agua Prieta”
  • Malay: “Agua Prieta”
  • Marathi: “अगुआ प्रिएटा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Agua Prieta”
  • Persian: “آگوا پریتا”
  • Polish: “Agua Prieta”
  • Portuguese: “Água Negra”
  • Portuguese: “Agua prieta”
  • Portuguese: “Agua Prieta”
  • Romanian: “Agua prieta, sonora”
  • Romanian: “Agua Prieta, Sonora”
  • Romanian: “Agua Prieta”
  • Russian: “Агуа-Приета”
  • Russian: “Агуа-Приэта”
  • Serbian: “Агва Пријета”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Agua Prieta, Sonora”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Agua Prieta”
  • Sinhala: “අගුවා ප්රියෙටා”
  • Slovak: “Agua Prieta”
  • Spanish: “Agua Prieta”
  • Spanish: “ap”
  • Spanish: “apson”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Agua Prieta”
  • Spanish: “Heroica Agua Prieta”
  • Spanish: “Heroica Ciudad de Agua Prieta”
  • Swedish: “Agua Prieta, Sonora”
  • Swedish: “Agua Prieta”
  • Tamil: “அகுவா பிரியேட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Агва Прьета”
  • Telugu: “అగువా ప్రైటా”
  • Thai: “อากัวปริเอตา”
  • Turkish: “Agua Prieta”
  • Ukrainian: “Агуа-Прієта”
  • Ukrainian: “Аґуа-Прієта”
  • Urdu: “اگوا پریٹا”
  • Vietnamese: “Agua Prieta”

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