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The Santa Cruz River east of Nogales just after re-entering the United States from Mexico. The Santa Cruz has its headwaters in the high intermontane grasslands of the San Rafael Valley to the southeast of Patagonia, Arizona, between the Canelo Hills to the east and the Patagonia Mountains to the west, just north of the international border.
Guadalupe Canyon Creek, tributary to the San Bernardino River joins it at just below Dieciocho de Augusto, Sonora. 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 ...
Green Valley is located along the western side of the Santa Cruz River at (31.8556, -111.0001 Continental is to the east of Green Valley, on the other side of the river. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 26.3 square miles (68 km 2 ), of which 26.2 square miles (68 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0. ...
Tubac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States.The population was 1,191 at the 2010 census. [2] The place name "Tubac" is an English borrowing from a Hispanicized form of the O'odham name Cuwak, which translates into English as "place of dark water". [3]
Santa Cruz River The San Rafael Valley is a high intermontane grass valley in eastern Santa Cruz County, Arizona . The valley is bounded to the west by the Patagonia Mountains , to the north and northeast by the Canelo Hills and to the east by the Huachuca Mountains in Cochise County .
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 Santa Cruz River was diverted into a man made channel away from SR 84A during construction to prevent the river from flooding the new highway in the future. [20] The first section of SR 84A between Miracle Mile (SR 84) and Congress Street opened to traffic on December 20, 1951 with the second section under construction. [21]
Brawley Wash is an ephemeral stream, tributary to the Santa Cruz River, located in Pima County. Its source is in the Altar Valley between the Sierrita and Coyote Mountains at 31°58′20″N 111°23′29″W / 31.97222°N 111.39139°W / 31.97222; -111.39139 , at the confluence of the Altar and Alambre washes along Arizona State ...