Bavispe River
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The Rio Bavispe or Bavispe River is a river in Mexico which flows briefly north then mainly south by southwest until it joins with the Aros River to become the Yaqui River, eventually joining the Gulf of California.[1]
History
Historically, the Rio Bavispe valley was the scene of many Apache raids and their skirmishes with the Mexican military. Missionaries settled the upper Bavispe River in the early 1600s.[2]
Watershed
The Bavispe River comprises a large part of the northern Yaqui River watershed. The mainstem of the Bavispe starts in the
Ecology
The river hosts an assemblage of native fishes: Yaqui trout, three suckers (Bavispe, Rio Grande, and Yaqui), Mexican stoneroller, roundtail chub, Yaqui catfish, beautiful shiner and longfin dace. Non-native fish include predatory black and yellow bullhead (Ameiras melas and Ameiras natalis).[3]
Important threatened or endangered mammals include the Sonoran pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis), Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), jaguar (Panthera onca), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi), and lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae).[3]
North American beaver (Castor canadensis) were historically native to the Rio Bavispe: Baird reported beavers in Canon de Guadalupe (at 5,000 ft, affluent of Rio Bavispe) in 1859, Mearns reported them in Canon de Guadalupe (at 5,000 ft, affluent of Rio Bavispe) in 1907, and Caire observed beaver activity north of Tasaviri (near San Miguelito just west of Morales, Sonora) on the Rio Bavispe mainstem in 1978. A 1999 survey found beaver sign at 14 different sites on the upper Bavispe River mainstem, associated with the presence of cottonwoods (Populus fremontii) and willows (Salix exigua).[4]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-7881-8386-7. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^ a b "Rio Bavispe". Wild Sonora. Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7881-8386-7. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^ Juan-Pablo Gallo-Reynoso; Gabriela Suarez-Gracida; Horacia Cabrera-Santiago; Else Coria-Galindo; Janitzio Egido-Villarreal & Leo C. Ortiz (Sep 2002). "Status of Beavers (Castor Canadensis Frontador) in Rio Bavispe, Sonora, Mexico". The Southwestern Naturalist. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- Atlas of Mexico, 1975 (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_mexico/river_basins.jpg)[permanent dead link].
- The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984.
- Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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