Sonoita Creek

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The Sonoita Creek is a river in southern Arizona. He received his name by now abandoned Pima mission near the plateau of Sonoita, a town in Santa Cruz County.

The first 24 km flows of Sonoita Creek westward steadily, after which it crosses Patagonia ( where one has dammed the river, whereby the Patagonia Lake was created ) and runs from there about 12 kilometers underground before a few miles north of Nogales in Santa Cruz River flows. This confluence supplied the places Tumacacori -Carmen and Tubac with water and collects in the north in the marsh near San Xavier del Bac. North of the course by the Santa Rita Mountains is bounded on the south by the Patagonia Mountains.

On November 17, 1856, the United States founded on the banks during the Sonoita Creek, Fort Buchanan in order to check the subject acquired through the Gadsden Purchase areas better.

In the 1890s several stone artifacts were discovered a few meters below the surface near the river source.