The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo sits on the northeast of this small mountain range. Both the mountain range and city take their name from the

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word for garlic. The range is a 13 by 13-mile (21 by 21-km) long range and is connected loosely northwest to Childs Mountain a northwest-southeast small mountain at the south of

Childs Valley The Childs Valley is a valley in the Sonoran Desert of south-central Arizona northwest of Ajo. Upstream sections are located in far western Pima County; downstream it merges into the Gila River Valley in southwestern Maricopa County. Upstream, t ...

. Ajo, is in the center-east of the range, and is famous for the New Cornelia

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located in the Little Ajo Mountains. The peaks in the Little Ajo Mountains include the isolated Black Mountain which lies to the south of Ajo and has a peak elevation of . Cardigan Peak at lies in the main mountain mass to the west of Ajo. Ajo Peak at and North Ajo Peak are isolated peaks to the southwest of Ajo. Camelback Mountain at lies just south of Ajo and overlooks the New Cornelia pit just to the east. The Batamote Mountains lie to the northeast, the

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lie to the east, Bates Mountains and the

Ajo Range The Ajo Range is a mountain range in Pima County, Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capita ...

lie to the south and the Growler Mountains lie to the west. The Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range lies to the north and west of the mountains and the

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also lies to the west.

Valleys surrounding the Little Ajos

Drainage from the north and northeast side of the Little Ajo Mountains enters

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which flows northwest to enter

. The southwest side of the range drains into Daniels Arroyo which flows northwest to also enter Childs Valley. The southeast side of the range drains to the south in the Cuerda de Leña in the Valley of the Ajo and turns west around the south end of the Growler Mountains to join the northwest draining

Growler Valley The Growler Valley is a valley of south-central Arizona west of Ajo, Arizona. Growler Valley is a 65-mile (105-km) long valley paralleling the Growler Mountains on the east-(attached to the Little Ajo Mountains), and the Granite Mountains on ...

.''Arizona Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 4th ed., 2001, p. 64,

Access to the mountains

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and the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

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{{Mountains of Arizona Mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert Mountain ranges of Pima County, Arizona Mountain ranges of Arizona

Valleys surrounding the Little Ajos

Access to the mountains

See also

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