SONORA

'Sonora' is a state in northwestern Mexico, bordering the states of Chihuahua to the east, Sinaloa to the south, and Baja California to the northwest. To the north Sonora accounts for a long stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico; to the west it borders the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).
Sonora is important economically for its cattle production and mining, and popular among tourists for its fine beaches. Culturally it is important as a source of Norteño style music.
Cities with airports serving as points of entry include Hermosillo (the state capital), Ciudad Obregón, Navojoa, and Guaymas. Smaller towns popular with tourists that have airports include Puerto Peñasco and Álamos. Border crossings include: the city of Nogales, across the border from Nogales, Arizona; the town of Agua Prieta, across from Douglas, Arizona; Sonoyta, opposite Lukeville, Arizona; Sasabe, opposite Sasabe, Arizona and San Luis Rio Colorado opposite Yuma, Arizona.
Sonora y Sinaloa was the name of the constituent state of the Mexican Republic under its Constitution of 1824. On 30 September 1830 that state was divided into two – the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Father Eusebio Kino is important in the state's history.
Eduardo Bours Castelo, a member of the PRI, is the current governor.
Sonora is subdivided into 72 ''municipios''. See municipalities of Sonora.

Major communities

In How Few Remain, the prologue novel to Harry Turtledove's fictional Southern Victory alternate history series, the Confederate States of America, which won its independence in 1863, purchased Sonora and neighboring Chihuahua from the Second Mexican Empire (which lasted far longer than its real-life counterpart) in 1881. This purchase triggered a second war between the Confederate States and the United States, which came to be known as the Second Mexican War. Sonora and its people feature prominently in successive novels of the series as an integral part of the Confederacy.
Robert Earl Keen, Michael Martin Murphey, and others have performed the song "Sonora's Death Row", written by Kevin “Blackie” Farrell.
George Strait also briefly mentions Sonora in the song "The Seashores of Old Mexico".

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