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The San Pedro Valley starts 10 miles (16 km) south of the United States–Mexico border and extends 140 miles (230 km) north through Arizona. The San Pedro River flows from the state of Sonora , Mexico, through Cochise, Pima, Graham, and Pinal Counties to Winkelman, Arizona.
The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA) was established in 1988 to protect some forty miles of the upper San Pedro valley. [21] The Nature Conservancy also owns several preserves in the watershed, including the San Pedro River Preserve , Aravaipa Canyon Preserve, Muleshoe Ranch Preserve, Ramsey Canyon Preserve, and most ...
Murray Springs is located in southern Arizona near the San Pedro River and once served as a Clovis hunting camp approximately 11,000 years BP. The site is unique for the massive quantity of large megafauna processing and extensive tool making. Archaeologists identified five buried animal kills and processing locations and a Clovis camp location.
The San Pedro House is located along the river to the east of Sierra Vista and is a fully restored historic ranch house dating to the 1930s. It is now used as a visitor center and bookstore for the San Pedro Riparian NCA. [2] [4] In April 2022, the San Pedro River was named as one of America's Most Endangered Rivers. [3]
This location commanded the intersection of four important routes. To the south, the San Pedro Valley stretched away into Sonora, and gave access to Mexico; this route was a vast natural highway for Apache raids into Mexico. To the west running up the Camp Grant Wash a road/trail extended over a divide toward the Santa Cruz River Valley and Tucson.
San Pedro (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 32°05′00″N 111°29′17″W / 32.08333°N 111.48806°W / 32.08333; -111
San Pedro Valley (Arizona)-W & SW The Dragoon Mountains is a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona . The range is about 25 mi (40 km) long, running on an axis extending south-south east through Willcox .
In 1528, Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Estevanico, and Fray Marcos de Niza [3] survived a shipwreck off the Texas coast. Captured by Native Americans, they spent eight years finding their way back to Mexico City, via the San Pedro Valley.