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Río Sonora (Sonora River) is a 402-kilometer-long river of Mexico. It lies on the Pacific slope of the Mexican state of Sonora and it runs into the Gulf of California.
Santa Cruz River (Arizona) Sonora River; W. Whitewater Draw; Y. Yaqui River This page was last edited on 27 July 2021, at 21:36 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Map showing major rivers in Mexico. Among the longest rivers of Mexico are 26 streams of at least 250 km (160 mi). In the case of rivers such as the Colorado, the length listed in the table below is solely that of the main stem. [1]
On Aug. 6, 2014, after heavy rainfall, 10 million gallons (40 million liters) of acidified copper sulfate flooded from a waste reservoir at Buenavista mine into the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers ...
Several theories exist as to the origin of the name "Sonora". One theory states that the name was derived from Nuestra Señora, the name given to the territory when Diego de Guzmán crossed the Yaqui River on the day of Nuestra Señora del Rosario ("Our Lady of the Rosary"), which falls on October 7 with the pronunciation possibly changing because none of the indigenous languages of the area ...
The Bacanuchi River (Spanish: Río Bacanuchi) is a river of Mexico in the northern part of the Sonora River basin, [1] and a tributary of the Sonora River. [2] Its drainage basin has an area of 1431 square kilometers. [3] In August 2014, a Grupo México copper mine spilled 10 million gallons of acidified copper sulfate solution into the ...
Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country's biggest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation effort for a toxic mine spill in the northern state of Sonora nine years ...
The Plan's stated pretext for rejecting the Carranza administration was a dispute between the federal government and the Sonora state government over control of the waters of the Sonora river, although the underlying reasons were complex. Carranza and the revolutionary generals who controlled the state of Sonora were increasingly in conflict.