Puerto Peñasco Municipality
Municipality in Sonora, Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Puerto Peñasco Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora in north-western Mexico.[2] As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 62,177 inhabitants.[1] The only locality with a significant population is the municipal seat, also named Puerto Peñasco, which contains almost 99% of the municipality's population.
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Puerto Peñasco Municipality | |
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Country | Mexico |
State | Sonora |
Capital | Puerto Peñasco |
Population (2015) | |
• Total | 62,177 [1] |
Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (No DST) |
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Most of the municipality consists of empty stretches of the Gran Desierto de Altar (Altar Desert) adjacent to and south of the international border with the U.S. state of Arizona.