San Luis Mountains

Coordinates: 31°30′34″N 111°24′09″W / 31.50944°N 111.40250°W / 31.50944; -111.40250
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San Luis Mountains
San Luis Mountains is located in Arizona
San Luis Mountains
San Luis Mountains
San Luis Mountains
Highest point
Elevation4,797 ft (1,462 m)[1]
Coordinates31°30′34″N 111°24′09″W / 31.50944°N 111.40250°W / 31.50944; -111.40250
Geography
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
RegionSonoran Desert
CountyPima County

The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern

U.S.-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona
–Sasabe, Sonora.

The range is northwest-southeast trending, about 10 miles (16 km) in length.

Pajarito Mountains
.

The community of

Arivaca lies in the valley northeast of the San Luis Mountains at the southeast end of the Las Guijas Mountains; Arivaca Lake lies about 5 mi upstream on Arivaca Wash. The International Border lies less than one mile south of the southern margin of the range in Fresnal Wash. Cumero Mountain Peak at 4,698 feet (1,432 m) is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north of the border.[2][3]

Two mountain ranges, the San Luis in the southwest, and the

References

  1. ^ Wilbur Canyon, Arizona, 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle, USGS, 1996
  2. ^ a b Sells, Arizona–Sonora, 30x60 topographic quadrangle, USGS, 1994
  3. ^ a b Atascosa Mountains, Arizona–Sonora, 30x60 minute topographic map, USGS, 1994
  4. ^ Arizona Highways Magazine, Emerald Isle, pp. 40–43.
  • Arizona Highways. Emerald Isle, Terry Greene Sterling, photography, Jack Dykinga, February, 2010, pp. 40–43.

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