Sonora
Sonora is a desert state in Northern Mexico. While it is not near the top of most people's travel plans, it is not without charm. Its main attractions are its beaches and its magnificent desert, which can be explored in El Pinacate biosphere reserve.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Ciudad Obregón
Ciudad Obregón is a city in Sonora, Mexico. Food is very important to the city's culture, and it hosts a wide variety of international and traditional Mexican restaurants.
Guaymas
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Guaymas is a city in Sonora, Mexico. The city is mostly an industrial port and is the principal port for the state of Sonora.
Destinations
Nogales
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Heroica Nogales is a city of 220,000 people in Sonora on the United States-Mexico border.
Isla Tiburon
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Isla Tiburón is in the Sea of Cortez offshore of the state of Sonora in Mexico.
San Luis Rio Colorado
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San Luis Rio Colorado is a city of 177,000 people in the state of Sonora, Mexico.
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar National Biosphere Reserve
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar National Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the state of Sonora in Northern Mexico.
Puerto Peñasco
Puerto Peñasco is a beach city in the northwestern corner of the state of Sonora in Mexico on the shores of the Sea of Cortez, about 112 km south of the border with Arizona.
Álamos
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Álamos is a town of 11,000 people in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Sonora.
Agua Prieta
Agua Prieta is a city of 91,000 people in Sonora on Mexico's border with the United States across from Douglas, Arizona.
Altar Desert
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The Altar Desert is a sandy region in the north of Sonora; it is part of the Sonoran Desert.
Bahía de Kino
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Bahia de Kino is on the Sea of Cortez about 100 km from Hermosillo in the state of Sonora, Mexico.
Banámichi
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Banamichi is a Mexican town of 1,400 people in the center of the state of Sonora, close to the Sierra Madre Occidental area and the influx of the Sonora River through that region.
Sonora
- Type: State with 2,940,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Neighbors: Arizona, Baja California, Chihuahua and New Mexico
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Northern Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude of center
29.3333° or 29° 20' northLongitude of center
-110.6667° or 110° 40' westPopulation
2,940,000Elevation
592 metres (1,942 feet)Abbreviation
SONOpenStreetMap ID
node 305626610OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3982846Wikidata ID
Q46422Sonora Satellite Map
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- Afrikaans: Sonora
- Arabic: Sonora
- Arabic: سونورا
- Arabic: ولاية سونورا
- Arabic: ولايه سونورا
- Aragonese: Sonora
- Armenian: Սոնորա
- Asturian: Sonora
- Aymara: Sonora Istadu
- Basque: Sonora
- Bavarian: Sonora
- Belarusian: Санора
- Belarusian: Штат Санора
- Bengali: সোনোরা
- Bishnupriya: সোনোরা
- Bosnian: Sonora
- Breton: Sonora
- Bulgarian: Сонора
- Catalan: Estat de Sonora
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- Cebuano: Estado de Sonora
- Chechen: Сонора
- Cherokee: ᏐᏃᎳ
- Cheyenne: Sonora
- Chinese: Sonora Chiu
- Chinese: 索諾拉
- Chinese: 索諾拉州
- Chinese: 索诺拉州
- Cornish: Sonora
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- Dutch: Sonora
- English: Estado de Sonora
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- Estonian: Sonora
- Estonian: Sonora osariik
- Finnish: Sonora
- French: Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora
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- French: État de Sonora
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- Galician: Estado de Sonora
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- Georgian: სონორა
- German: MX-SON
- German: Sonora
- Greek: Σονόρα
- Gujarati: સોનોરા
- Hebrew: סונורה
- Hindi: सोनोरा
- Hungarian: Sonora
- Icelandic: Sonora
- Ido: Sonora
- Iloko: Sonora
- Indonesian: Sonora
- Interlingua: Stato Sonora
- Irish: Sonora
- Italian: Sonora
- Japanese: ソノラ州
- Japanese: ソノーラ州
- Kannada: ಸೊನೊರಾ
- Korean: 소노라
- Korean: 소노라주
- Ladino: Sonora
- Lao: Sonora
- Latin: Sonora
- Latvian: Sonora
- Lithuanian: Sonora
- Lithuanian: Sonoros valstija
- Macedonian: Сонора
- Malagasy: Sonora
- Malay: Sonora
- Marathi: सोनोरा
- Mazanderani: سونورا ایالت
- Min Nan Chinese: Sonora Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Sonora (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Sonora
- Norwegian: Sonora
- Norwegian Bokmål: Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sonora
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Delstaten Sonora
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sonora
- Occitan (post 1500): Sonora
- Ossetian: Сонорæ
- Pampanga: Sonora
- Panjabi: ਸੋਨੋਰਾ
- Persian: ایالت سونورا
- Piemontese: Sonora
- Polish: Sonora
- Portuguese: Estado de Sonora
- Portuguese: Sonora
- Quechua: Sonora suyu
- Romanian: Sonora
- Romanian: Statul Sonora
- Romansh: Sonora
- Russian: Сонора
- Sardinian: Sonora
- Scots: Sonora
- Serbian: Држава Сонора
- Serbian: Сонора
- Serbo-Croatian: Sonora
- Sinhala: සැනොරා
- Slovak: Sonora
- Slovenian: Estado de Sonora
- Slovenian: MX-SON
- Slovenian: Sonora
- Southern Sotho: Sonora
- Spanish: Estado de Sonora
- Spanish: Sonora
- Spanish: Sonorense
- Swahili: Sonora
- Swedish: Sonora
- Tagalog: Sonora
- Tajik: Иёлати Сонора
- Tajik: Сонора
- Tamil: சொனோரா
- Tatar: Сонора
- Telugu: సోనోరా
- Thai: Sonora
- Thai: รัฐโซโนรา
- Thai: โซโนรา
- Turkish: Sonora
- Ukrainian: Сонора
- Urdu: سونورا
- Uzbek: Sonora
- Venetian: Sonora (stato)
- Venetian: Sonora
- Vietnamese: Sonora
- Waray (Philippines): Sonora
- Welsh: Sonora
- Western Panjabi: سونورا
- Wu Chinese: 索诺拉州
- Yue Chinese: 索諾拉州
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