Los Algodones
Los Algodones or Vicente Guerrero is a town in Baja California, Mexico, approximately 16 km west of Yuma, 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.- 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 Pilot Knob and Morelos Dam.
Pilot Knob
Peak
Pilot Knob is a peak in Imperial County, California. Pilot Knob is located 8 miles southeast of Ogilby, It rises to an elevation of 876 feet. Pilot Knob is a rocky landform, geologically a Volcanic plug, west of Yuma, Arizona–Winterhaven, California; it is connected to the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, the central portion of the mountains being about 7 miles north.
Morelos Dam
Dam
The Morelos Dam was built in 1950 across the Colorado River 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 Mexico and Yuma County, Arizona in the southwestern United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Andrade.
Andrade
Hamlet
Andrade is a small locale in the southeasternmost corner of the state of California, in Imperial County. The community is located entirely within the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation.
Los Algodones
- Categories: locality of Mexico, border city, and locality
- Location: Mexicali Municipality, Baja California, Baja Peninsula, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.7129° or 32° 42′ 47″ northLongitude
-114.734° or 114° 44′ 3″ westPopulation
8,210Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)Open location code
8547P778+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 2144938820OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3979548Wikidata ID
Q1492862
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“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”
- Urdu: “لوس الگوڈونس”
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