San Luis Río Colorado is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

state State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...

in northwestern Mexico, being the northwesternmost municipality in Sonora and covering an area of 8412.75 km². The municipality is the location of the city of San Luis Rio Colorado (its municipal seat), the community of El Golfo de Santa Clara, and the

Bahia Adair Bahia Adair or Adair Bay is a bay at the northern end of the Gulf of California in the municipality of San Luis Río Colorado in the state of Sonora in Mexico. It is 40 kilometers from east to west and 15 kilometres from north to south. It contain ...

biosphere preserve.

Geography

The municipality is in the

Lower Colorado River Valley The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of ...

, with the

Colorado River The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...

along its west, the U.S.-Mexico border along the north, and to the

Colorado River Delta The Colorado River Delta is the region where the Colorado River once flowed into the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) in eastern Mexicali Municipality in the north of the state of Baja California, in northwestern Mexico. The ...

on the southwest, and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) along the south.

Adjacent jurisdictions

* Yuma County,

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— north * Municipality of Puerto Peñasco,

— east * Municipality of Mexicali and

Baja California Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of B ...

— west * Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes) — south

Populated places

The largest cities, towns, and villages within the municipality include:

Former settlements

Former historical settlements sites within the current municipality, many along the

that served shipping by steamboats on the Colorado River, include:

History

The first vaccines against the

COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to hav ...

arrived for medical personal on January 13, 2021. Eleven people were arrested for possession of weapons reserved for the military on March 13, 2021.

Government

Municipal presidents

References

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