Eastern Mojave Vegetation Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona.
 
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The Huachuca Mountains were named by the Spanish for a Pima village that once existed to the north of the range near the present location of Elgin, Arizona. Coronado National Memorial is in the southeastern margin of the range near the Mexico–United States border and includes Montezuma Pass, a possible entry point of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado into what is now Arizona in 1540. The range extends a short distance south of the border in Sonora, Mexico.


Elevation: 7054ft, 2150m.

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Date and time this article was prepared:6:11:26 PM, 3/23/2025.