San Luis Río Colorado Municipality

San Luis Río Colorado is a municipality in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico, being the northwesternmost municipality in Sonora and covering an area of 8412.75 km².^[1][2]

San Luis Río Colorado
Municipality
Church of the Immaculate Conception, SLRC
Seal
Location of the municipality in Sonora
Country	Mexico
State	Sonora
Seat	San Luis Río Colorado
Population  (2020)
• Total	199,021
Time zone	UTC-7 (Zona Pacífico)

The municipality is the location of the city of San Luis Rio Colorado (its municipal seat), the community of El Golfo de Santa Clara, and the Bahia Adair biosphere preserve.

Geography

The municipality is in the Lower Colorado River Valley, with the Colorado River along its west, the U.S.-Mexico border along the north, and to the Colorado River Delta on the southwest, and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) along the south.

Adjacent jurisdictions

• Yuma County, Arizona — north
• Municipality of Puerto Peñasco, Sonora — east
• Municipality of Mexicali and Colorado River, Baja California — west
• Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes) — south

Populated places

The largest cities, towns, and villages within the municipality include:

Name	2020 Census Population
San Luis Río Colorado	176,685
Ingeniero Luis B. Sánchez [es]	5,970
Golfo de Santa Clara [es]	4,618
Islita [es]	2,332
Estación Riíto	1,413
Lagunitas [es]	1,217
Total Municipality	199,021

Former settlements

Former historical settlements sites within the current municipality, many along the Colorado River that served shipping by steamboats on the Colorado River, include:

Name	founded	abandoned	Notes
Colonia Lerdo	1870s	1900s	Agricultural settlement
Gridiron	1854	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Hualapai Smith's	1860s	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Lerdo Landing	1870s	1900s	Colorado River landing for Colonia Lerdo
Ogden's Landing	1854	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Port Famine	1854	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing
Port Isabel	1864	1879	Colorado River steamboat landing and Pacific Ocean seaport

History

The first vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico arrived for medical personal on January 13, 2021.^[3]

Eleven people were arrested for possession of weapons reserved for the military on March 13, 2021.^[4]

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal president	Term	Political party	Notes
Félix M. Contreras[2][5]	1939–1941	PRM
Carlos Encinas	1941–1943	PRM
Alberto Veytia Ponce	1943–1946	PRM
Heriberto R. Silva	1946–1949	PRI
Refugio del Río Sáenz	1949–1952	PRI
Isidro Parra Olguín	1952–1955	PRI
Eulogio Medina Hoyos	1955–1958	PRI
Mario Morúa Johnson	1958–1961	PRI
Carlos Rodríguez Araiza	1961	PRI	Acting municipal president
Manuel Parra Peralta	1961–1964	PRI
Carlos Rodríguez Araiza	1964–1967	PRI
Rafael Loya Castro	1967–1970	PRI
Jorge Flores Valdez	1970–1973	PRI
Rubén Payán Serrano	1973–1976	PRI
Ignacio Guzmán Gómez	1976–1979	PRI
Rodolfo Rogel Villa	1979–1982	PRI
Fausto Ochoa Medina	1982–1985	PAN
Sergio Miguel García Íñiguez	1985–1988	PRI
José Jesús Bustamante Salcido	1988–1991	PRI
Gilberto Madrid Navarro[6]	1991–1994	PRI
Jorge Figueroa González[7]	1994–1997	PAN
Florencio Díaz Armenta [es][8]	1997–2000	PAN
José Enrique Reina Lizárraga[9]	2000–2003	PAN
José Inés Palafox Núñez[10][11]	2003–2006	PAN
Héctor Rubén Espino Santana[12][13]	2006–2009	PAN
Manuel de Jesús Baldenebro Arredondo[14]	2009–2012	PRI
Leonardo Guillén Medina[15][16]	2012–2015	PAN
José Enrique Reina Lizárraga[17][18][19]	2015–2018	PAN
Santos González Yescas[20]	2018–2021	PT Morena PES	Coalition "Together We Will Make History"
Santos González Yescas[21]	2021–2024	Morena	Was reelected on 06/06/2021
César Iván Sandoval Gámez[22]	2024–	Morena PVEM PT PNA Sonora PES Sonora

See also

• Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley
• Alto Golfo de California Biosphere Reserve
• Steamboat transport on the Colorado River