Sonora Features

Sonora Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Sonora
  

  The chance to visit a colonial city: Beautifully preserved Alamos has great hotels and restaurants and a friendly community of American expats... read more

• Ruta de Río Sonora
  

  The highways following the Río Sonora are a terrific way to see a less touristy side of Sonora. Between Hermosillo and Cananea, the riverbanks... read more

• Sonora Background
  

  Mexico's second-largest state, Sonora, is also its second richest. Ranch lands here feed Mexico's finest beef cattle, and rivers flowing west... read more

• Ruta de las Misiones
  

  Although most towns in northern Sonora have a link to a nearby mission, those founded by Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino, one of the most prominent... read more

• El Pinacate
  

  The somewhat difficult trip to El Pinacate, is one of the region's most rewarding. The reserve, midway between Puerto Peñasco and the... read more

• Tribe on the Verge
  

  A rustic Seri fishing village perched at the end of a long, bumpy, winding dirt road, Punta Chueca is 27 km (17 mi) north of Bahía Kino... read more

• The Maquila's March to Modernity
  

  When Mexico began its Border Industrialization Program in 1965, few could have imagined the social and environmental ills that open markets and... read more