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San Pedro River (Arizona)

Index San Pedro River (Arizona)

The San Pedro River is a northward-flowing stream originating about south of the international border south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, in Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico. [1]

78 relations: Alluvium, Apache, Aravaipa Creek, Arizona Geological Society, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Babocomari River, Barred tiger salamander, Bat, Beaver dam, Bird, Bureau of Land Management, Butterfly, Cananea, Cananea Municipality, Center for Biological Diversity, Central America, Ciénega, Cochise County, Arizona, Cochise Tradition, Craugastor augusti, Dragoon Mountains, Edgar Alexander Mearns, Eusebio Kino, Floodplain, Fort Huachuca, Fossil, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Galiuro Mountains, Gila chub, Gila River, Graham County, Arizona, Hohokam, Holocene, Huachuca Mountains, Jaguar, James Ohio Pattie, Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site, Lilaeopsis schaffneriana, List of rivers of Arizona, List of tributaries of the Colorado River, Little Rincon Mountains, Madrean Sky Islands, Marcos de Niza, Mexico, Mogollon culture, Mormon Battalion, Mormons, Mule Mountains, Naco Mammoth Kill Site, North America, ..., North American beaver, Pima County, Arizona, Pinal County, Arizona, Populus fremontii, Rincon Mountains, Riparian zone, Salado culture, San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, San Pedro River Preserve, San Pedro Valley (Arizona), Santa Catalina Mountains, Sierra Vista, Arizona, Sky Islands, Sobaipuri, Sonora, South America, Southwestern United States, Sporobolus, St. David, Arizona, Stream, The Nature Conservancy, Tombstone, Arizona, Whetstone Mountains, White Mountains (Arizona), White-nosed coati, Willow flycatcher, Winkelman, Arizona, Yellow-billed cuckoo. Expand index (28 more) »

Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Apache

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache.

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Aravaipa Creek

Aravaipa Creek is a major drainage between three mountain ranges in southwest Graham County, Arizona --- the Galiuro Mountains, the Santa Teresa Mountains and the Pinaleno Mountains.

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Arizona Geological Society

The Arizona Geological Society (AGS) is a non-profit scientific organization founded in 1948 whose purpose is to promote and encourage interest in the science of geology and in the geology of the State of Arizona.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, 1488/1490/1492"Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (1492?-1559?)." American Eras. Vol. 1: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 50-51. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 Dec. 2014.Seville, 1557/1558/1559/1560"Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.

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Babocomari River

The Babocomari River is a major tributary of the upper San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona.

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Barred tiger salamander

The barred tiger salamander or western tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium) is a species of mole salamander found from southwestern Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, south through the western United States to Texas and northern Mexico.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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Beaver dam

Beaver dams are dams built by beavers to provide ponds as protection against predators such as coyotes, wolves, and bears, and to provide easy access to food during winter.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.

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Butterfly

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.

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Cananea

Cananea (from the Apache term for "horse meat") is a city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, Northwestern Mexico.

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Cananea Municipality

Cananea is a municipality in the northern portion of the Mexican state of Sonora, on the U.S. border.

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Center for Biological Diversity

The Center for Biological Diversity (Center), based in Tucson, Arizona, is a nonprofit membership organization with approximately 1.1 million members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Ciénega

A ciénega (also spelled ciénaga) is a wetland system unique to the American Southwest.

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Cochise County, Arizona

Cochise County is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Cochise Tradition

The Cochise Tradition (also Cochise Culture) refers to the southern archeological tradition of the four Southwestern Archaic Traditions, in the present day Southwestern United States.

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Craugastor augusti

Craugastor augusti is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family found in Mexico and the southern United States.

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Dragoon Mountains

The Dragoon Mountains are a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona.

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Edgar Alexander Mearns

Edgar Alexander Mearns (September 11, 1856 in Highland Falls, New York – November 1, 1916 in Washington, D.C.) was a notable American ornithologist and field naturalist.

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Eusebio Kino

Eusebio Francisco Kino (Eusebio Francesco Chini, Eusebio Francisco Kino; 10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711) was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

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Galiuro Mountains

The Galiuro Mountains are a large sky island mountain range of southeast Arizona, USA.

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Gila chub

The Gila chub (Gila intermedia) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.

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Gila River

The Gila River (O'odham Pima: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.

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Graham County, Arizona

Graham County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Hohokam

The Hohokam were an ancient Native American culture centered in the present US state of Arizona.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Huachuca Mountains

The Huachuca Mountain range is part of the Sierra Vista Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a wild cat species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

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James Ohio Pattie

James Ohio Pattie (c. 1804 - c. 1851) was an American frontiersman and author from Kentucky.

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Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

The Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site is a location in southern Arizona that is significant for its association with evidence that mammoths were killed here by Paleo-Indians 9000 years BCE.

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Lilaeopsis schaffneriana

Lilaeopsis schaffneriana is a rare species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names Schaffner's grasswort and cienega false rush.

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List of rivers of Arizona

List of rivers in Arizona (U.S. state), sorted by name.

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List of tributaries of the Colorado River

The principal tributaries of the Colorado River of North America are the Gila River, the San Juan River, the Green River, and the Gunnison River.

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Little Rincon Mountains

The Little Rincon Mountains are a small range of mountains, lying to the east of the Rincon Mountains, at Tucson, of eastern Pima County, Arizona.

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Madrean Sky Islands

The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine-oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico.

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Marcos de Niza

Fray Marcos de Niza (March 25, 1558) was a Spanish missionary and Franciscan friar.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mogollon culture

Mogollon culture is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas, a region known as Oasisamerica.

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Mormon Battalion

The Mormon Battalion, the only religiously based unit in United States military history, served from July 1846 – July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Mule Mountains

The Mule Mountains are a north/south running mountain range located in the south-central area of Cochise County, Arizona.

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Naco Mammoth Kill Site

The Naco Mammoth Kill Site is an archaeological site in southeast Arizona, near Naco, Arizona.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species.

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Pima County, Arizona

Pima County is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Pinal County, Arizona

Pinal County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Populus fremontii

Populus fremontii, commonly known as Fremont's cottonwood or the Alamo cottonwood, is a cottonwood (and thus a poplar) native to riparian zones of the Southwestern United States and northern through central Mexico.

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Rincon Mountains

The Rincon Mountains (O'odham: Cew Doʼag) are a significant mountain range east of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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Salado culture

Salado culture, or Salado Horizon, Todd Bostwick of Pueblo Grande Museum, "Salado Summary".

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San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area

The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (San Pedro Riparian NCA) contains nearly of public land in Cochise County, Arizona, between the international border with Mexico and St. David, Arizona.

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San Pedro River Preserve

The San Pedro River Preserve is a Nature Conservancy preserve in Dudleyville, Arizona.

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San Pedro Valley (Arizona)

The San Pedro Valley of western Cochise County Arizona, is a, mostly north–south valley, trending northwesterly.

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Santa Catalina Mountains

The Santa Catalina Mountains, commonly referred to as the Catalina Mountains or the Catalinas, are north and northeast of Tucson in Arizona, United States, on Tucson's north perimeter.

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Sierra Vista, Arizona

Sierra Vista is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

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Sky Islands

Sky Islands is a 1993 jazz album by Ramsey Lewis released on GRP Records.The album rose to No.

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Sobaipuri

The Sobaipuri were one of many indigenous groups occupying Sonora and what is now Arizona at the time Europeans first entered the American Southwest.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Sonora (Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora), is one of 31 states that, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of United Mexican States.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States (Suroeste de Estados Unidos; also known as the American Southwest) is the informal name for a region of the western United States.

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Sporobolus

Sporobolus is a nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.

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St. David, Arizona

St.

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Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is a charitable environmental organization, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States.

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Tombstone, Arizona

Tombstone is a historic city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory.

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Whetstone Mountains

The Whetstone Mountains is a mountain range in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona.

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White Mountains (Arizona)

The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico; it is a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone–Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico.

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White-nosed coati

The white-nosed coati (Nasua narica), also known as the coatimundi, is a species of coati and a member of the family Procyonidae (raccoons and relatives).

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Willow flycatcher

The willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) is a small insect-eating, neotropical migrant bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.

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Winkelman, Arizona

Winkelman is a town in Gila and Pinal counties in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Yellow-billed cuckoo

The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is a cuckoo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_River_(Arizona)

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