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The Rillito River (Spanish pronunciation:; Spanish "Little River") is a river in Pima County, Arizona.It flows from east to west across the northern boundary of the City of Tucson from the confluence of Tanque Verde Creek and Pantano Wash to the Santa Cruz River 12.2 miles (19.6 km) away. [2]
Marana (/ m ə ˈ r æ. n ə /) is a town that mostly lies in Pima County with a small portion in Pinal County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. [3] [4] It is located northwest of Tucson, Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 51,908. [5]
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Masse, W. Bruce, 1981, A Reappraisal of the Protohistoric Sobaipuri Indians of Southeastern Arizona. In The Protohistoric Period in the North American Southwest, A.D. 1450-1700. David R. Wilcox and W. Bruce Masse, editors. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers No. 24, pp. 28 ...
Whitewater Draw: originally considered the upper reach of the Rio de Agua Prieta, it enters Mexico as the head of Rio de Agua Prieta, which runs southward then southeast to join the Rio de San Bernardino, at La Junta de los Rios, Sonora, about 24.5 miles southeast of Douglas, Arizona.
Sites marked where persons perished crossing la Frontera from Mexico, North up San Pedro River. The San Pedro Valley is a site for Holocene mammal fossils because of the riparian environment. In recent decades, the Arizona Geological Society has focused on the region, as well as researchers. Development pressures, recreation, and groundwater ...
The New Mexico and Arizona Railroad paralleled the Sonoita Creek for a portion of the railroad's route. The route ran from a connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad in Benson, then south to Fairbank (about 13 km or 8 miles west of Tombstone) then west to Sonoita – Patagonia and Rio Rico, then south to Nogales. The railroad was ...
Mining giant Rio Tinto Plc has tried for more than a quarter century to launch Arizona's Resolution copper project, which would be one of the world's largest underground mines. The company and ...
The visiting Padre Jacobo Sedelmayr in 1744, found the Pima of the Middle Gila River living in three rancherías, one league west of Casa Grande was one called Tuquisan (Kino's Tuesan); four leagues downstream lay Tussonimo (Kino's Tusonimo), and 10 leagues further down the Gila River, that ran entirely underground in the dry season and emerged where the largest ranchería of Sudacsón (Sudac ...