Sierra Pinta

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name=Sierra Pinta


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country=United States
state=Arizona
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highest=unnamed
highest_elevation_imperial=2202

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The Sierra Pinta (Spanish for "Mountains Spot-(Mark)") is a medium-sized, very narrow, block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about convert|22|mi|km|0 long in southwestern Arizona in the northwestern Sonoran Desert, the hottest part of southwestern Arizona, and just north of the Pinacate Reserve of northern Sonora, Mexico.

The north end of the range contains the peak called "Point of the Pintas" at convert|1272|ft|m|0, then Bean Pass; adjacent southward is the peak Isla Pinta, at convert|2008|ft|m|0, and Sunday Pass. The Sierra Pinta range is toward the southern end of the Mohawk Valley, which also borders the range on the east, and east to the Bryan Mountains. West of the Sierra Pintas is the Tule Desert (Arizona), and south in northern Sonora is the El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar, the extensive and active volcanic and cinder cone field and preserve. The highest peak in the range is in the south and is unnamed at convert|2202|ft|m|0.

Roads, and the region

West of the northwest end of the Sierra Pintas, the north-south "Christmas Pass Road" goes south from Interstate 8 and through Christmas Pass, adjacent to the Tule Desert, on the southeast end of the Cabeza Prieta Mountains (all to the southwest of the Sierra Pintas). The road terminates close by at the US-Mexico Border at an unimproved road called the "El Camino del Diablo", which parallels the border. This is a no man's land region in the high point of summer heat.

The Sierra Pintas lie in the central-western portion of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. The closest access point from the north is Mohawk on Interstate 8 in Arizona. Ajo, Arizona is 35 air miles eastward beyond two mountain ranges and valleys; Sonoyta, Sonora is slightly southeastward at the south border crossing of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

ee also

*Valley and range sequence-Southern Yuma County
*List of mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona
*List of mountain ranges of Arizona