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In 1952, Puerto Peñasco separated from the municipality of Caborca and comprised the localities of Sonoyta, Bahía La Choya, 21 de Marzo and Cuauhtémoc. Sonoyta was the second largest population center at the time. In 1989, the municipality of Plutarco Elías Calles was split from Puerto Peñasco. [10]
Puerto Peñasco is a municipality in the state of Sonora in north-western Mexico. [2] As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 62,177 inhabitants. [ 1 ] The only locality with a significant population is the municipal seat, also named Puerto Peñasco , which contains almost 99% of the municipality's population.
The initial airfield in Puerto Peñasco commenced operations in the 1940s, primarily serving as a stopover on Mexicana de Aviación's route from Mexico City to Mexicali and featuring a telegraph office. In 1973, a larger airfield with a small terminal was established, achieving official international airport status in 1994.
Most of the islands are found on the west side of the gulf. In fact, many of the islands of the gulf are the result of volcanic eruptions that occurred during the early history of Baja California. The islands of Islas Marías, Islas San Francisco, and Isla Partida are thought to be the result of such eruptions. The formations of the islands ...
Munro Palacio was born on 16 October 1948 in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico. His family had arrived from Hermosillo to the city of Puerto Peñasco in 1928 to work in what was at the time a small fishing camp; his parents Guillermo Munro Fourcade and María Palacio were among the first settlers there. [1] Munro Palacio played baseball as a pitcher.
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The Pinacate Peaks lie just north of the fishing resort of Puerto Peñasco. The tallest of the peaks is Cerro del Pinacate (also called Volcan Santa Clara), with an elevation of 3,904 feet (1,190 m). The Mexican Spanish word pinacate is derived from the Nahuatl word for the endemic desert stink beetle, pinacatl.
In 1975, CEDO's current Executive Director Peggy Turk Boyer visited Puerto Peñasco with professors John Hendrickson and Don Thomson of the University of Arizona's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department, as part of the UA's thriving marine biology program. They and their students conducted field activities out of a small beach house ...