Río Sonora (''Sonora River'') is a 402-kilometer-long
river of Mexico. It lies on the Pacific slope of the Mexican state of
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into 72 municipalities; the ...
and it runs into the
Gulf of California
The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Bermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja C ...
.
Watershed
The Sonora River watershed covers of public land. Slopes range from steep orientations in the upper part of the watershed to more gradual topographies in the valleys. The Sonora River watershed is subdivided into six smaller watersheds.
[Diego Valdez-Zamudio, Peter F. Folliott (2005) Agroforestry Practices in the Sonora River Watershed, Mexico. AFTA 2005 Conference Proceedings pp. 1-4 ]
Ecology
Biotic communities found within the watershed in order of importance by the area covered are the Sinaloan thornscrub, the plains of Sonora subdivision, semidesert grasslands, the Madrean evergreen woodland, and the central gulf coast subdivision. Average annual precipitation is which occurs in two seasons, late summer-early fall and winter-early spring.
Physician naturalist
Edgar Alexander Mearns
Edgar Alexander Mearns (September 11, 1856 – November 1, 1916) was an American surgeon, ornithologist and field naturalist. He was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union.
Life
Mearns was born in n Highland Falls, New York to Alex ...
' 1907 report of
beaver
Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers a ...
(''Castor canadensis'') on the Sonora River may be the southernmost extent of the range of this North American aquatic mammal.
See also
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List of longest rivers of Mexico
References
External links
Sonora
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Rivers of the Gulf of California
Rivers of Sonora
rivers of Mexico
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