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Sonora

Sonora is a desert state in . While it is not near the top of most people's travel plans, it is not without charm. Its main attractions are its beaches and its magnificent desert, which can be explored in El Pinacate biosphere reserve.
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is the capital and largest city of Sonora, . is the seat of the municipality of , which is the largest municipality in Sonora with a land area of over 15,700 km2.

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is a city in Sonora, . Food is very important to the city's culture, and it hosts a wide variety of international and traditional Mexican restaurants.

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is a city in Sonora, . The city is mostly an industrial port and is the principal port for the state of Sonora. Nearby San Carlos and its beaches are major tourist attractions.

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Explore places such as Nogales and Isla Tiburon.

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Heroica is a city of 220,000 people in Sonora on the - border. is a divided community which extends into ; the border runs down the middle of International Street.

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Isla Tiburón is in the Sea of Cortez offshore of the state of Sonora in . The island was established as a refuge to protect large game animals from the dangers of poaching and overhunting that they were facing on the mainland.

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is a city of 177,000 people in the state of Sonora, . It's on the United States border, opposite , .

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is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the state of Sonora in .

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is a beach city in the northwestern corner of the state of Sonora in on the shores of the Sea of Cortez, about 112 km south of the border with .

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is a town of 11,000 people in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Sonora. Alamos is the main historical attraction of Sonora, and one of 's most splendid colonial cities.

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is a city of 91,000 people in Sonora on Mexico's border with the United States across from Douglas, Arizona.

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is a small town in the state of Sonora that is known for the work of missionary priest, Padre Eusebio Kino, who is most famous in Sonora and .

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is a small coastal town on the Sea of Cortez in the state of Sonora. Popular with retirees who migrate seasonally to escape cold Canadian and northern U.S. winters, the town is famous among scuba divers who come for the clear waters and the abundance of interesting dive sites.

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Bahia de Kino is on the Sea of Cortez about 100 km from in the state of Sonora, . The tourist economy booms during the summer when residents of Hermosillo flock to the beaches to escape the extreme desert temperatures inland.

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The is a sandy region in the north of Sonora; it is part of the Sonoran Desert. The desert extends across much of the northern reach of the Gulf of California, spanning more than 100 kilometres east to west and over 50 kilometres north to south.

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is a small town in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the state of Sonora. There are natural areas nearby with canyons and the Rio Sonora, and some fascinating history with great stories to tell.

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Banamichi is a Mexican town of 1,400 people in the center of the state of Sonora, close to the Sierra Madre Occidental area and the influx of the Sonora River through that region. The town was founded in 1639.

Sonora

Latitude of center
29.3333° or 29° 20′ north
Longitude of center
-110.6667° or 110° 40′ west
Population
2,940,000
Elevation
592 metres (1,942 feet)
Abbreviation
“SON”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626610
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3982846
Wiki­data ID
Q46422
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sonora” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sonora”
  • Arabic: “سونورا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية سونورا”
  • Arabic: “ولايه سونورا”
  • Aragonese: “Sonora”
  • Armenian: “Սոնորա”
  • Asturian: “Sonora”
  • Aymara: “Sonora Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sonora”
  • Balinese: “Sonora”
  • Basque: “Sonora”
  • Bavarian: “Sonora”
  • Belarusian: “Санора”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Санора”
  • Bengali: “সোনোরা”
  • Bishnupriya: “সোনোরা”
  • Bosnian: “Sonora”
  • Breton: “Sonora”
  • Bulgarian: “Сонора”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Sonora”
  • Catalan: “Sonora”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Sonora”
  • Chechen: “Сонора”
  • Cherokee: “ᏐᏃᎳ”
  • Cheyenne: “Sonora”
  • Chinese: “Sonora Chiu”
  • Chinese: “索诺拉州”
  • Chinese: “索諾拉”
  • Chinese: “索諾拉州”
  • Cornish: “Sonora”
  • Croatian: “Sonora”
  • Czech: “Sonora”
  • Danish: “Sonora”
  • Dutch: “Sonora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية سونورا”
  • Esperanto: “Sonora”
  • Esperanto: “Sonoro”
  • Estonian: “Sonora osariik”
  • Estonian: “Sonora”
  • Finnish: “Sonora”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora”
  • French: “État de Sonora”
  • French: “État de Sonore”
  • French: “Sonora”
  • Galician: “Estado de Sonora”
  • Galician: “Sonora”
  • Georgian: “სონორა”
  • Georgian: “სონორის შტატი”
  • German: “MX-SON”
  • German: “Sonora”
  • Greek: “Σονόρα”
  • Gujarati: “સોનોરા”
  • Hebrew: “סונורה”
  • Hindi: “सोनोरा”
  • Hungarian: “Sonora”
  • Icelandic: “Sonora”
  • Ido: “Sonora”
  • Iloko: “Sonora”
  • Indonesian: “Sonora”
  • Interlingua: “Sonora”
  • Interlingua: “Stato Sonora”
  • Irish: “Sonora”
  • Italian: “Sonora”
  • Japanese: “ソノーラ州”
  • Japanese: “ソノラ州”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊನೊರಾ”
  • Korean: “소노라”
  • Korean: “소노라주”
  • Ladino: “Sonora”
  • Latin: “Sonora”
  • Latvian: “Sonora”
  • Lithuanian: “Sonora”
  • Lithuanian: “Sonoros valstija”
  • Macedonian: “Сонора”
  • Malagasy: “Sonora”
  • Malay: “Sonora”
  • Marathi: “सोनोरा”
  • Mazanderani: “سونورا ایالت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sonora Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sonora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonora”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Sonora”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sonora”
  • Norwegian: “Sonora”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sonora”
  • Ossetian: “Сонорæ”
  • Pampanga: “Sonora”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਨੋਰਾ”
  • Persian: “ایالت سونورا”
  • Piemontese: “Sonora”
  • Polish: “Sonora”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Sonora”
  • Portuguese: “Sonora”
  • Quechua: “Sonora suyu”
  • Romanian: “Sonora”
  • Romanian: “Statul Sonora”
  • Romansh: “Sonora”
  • Russian: “Сонора”
  • Sardinian: “Sonora”
  • Scots: “Sonora”
  • Serbian: “Држава Сонора”
  • Serbian: “Сонора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sonora”
  • Sinhala: “සැනොරා”
  • Sinhala: “සොනෝරා ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Sonora”
  • Slovenian: “Estado de Sonora”
  • Slovenian: “MX-SON”
  • Slovenian: “Sonora”
  • Southern Sotho: “Sonora”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Sonora”
  • Spanish: “Sonora”
  • Spanish: “Sonorense”
  • Swahili: “Sonora”
  • Swedish: “Sonora”
  • Tagalog: “Sonora”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Сонора”
  • Tajik: “Сонора”
  • Tamil: “சொனோரா”
  • Tatar: “Сонора”
  • Telugu: “సోనోరా”
  • Thai: “Sonora”
  • Thai: “โซโนรา”
  • Thai: “รัฐโซโนรา”
  • Tumbuka: “Sonora”
  • Turkish: “Sonora”
  • Ukrainian: “Сонора”
  • Urdu: “سونورا”
  • Uzbek: “Sonora”
  • Venetian: “Sonora (stato)”
  • Venetian: “Sonora”
  • Vietnamese: “Sonora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sonora”
  • Welsh: “Sonora”
  • Western Panjabi: “سونورا”
  • Wu Chinese: “索诺拉州”
  • Yue Chinese: “索諾拉州”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlahtohkayotl tlen Sonora”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlatilantli tlen Sonora”
  • “Sonora”
  • “Sonora Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Sonora Tlatilantli”

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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 “Sonora”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.5.