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39-489: The city name derives from the native Mayo language meaning "cactus-house" (Navo"= Cactus , "Jova"= House). The valley has been continuously inhabited since pre-Hispanic times by the Mayo people . In September 1536, Diego de Guzmán , a Spaniard, became the first known European to reach the valley. The first Jesuit missionaries started settling in the region in 1614, founding Mission Santa Catalina Camoa . Several geoglyphs from

78-536: A connection between the Pacific coast and the interior of Mexico (terminating at the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas ) across the Sierra Madre Occidental. It is at Villa Union that most traffic continues on tolled Fed-15D, with Fed-15 traveling southeastwardly as a two-lane rural highway. In southern Sinaloa Fed-15, the "Mazatlán-Tepic Highway," crosses a number of tropical Pacific coast wetlands before entering

117-658: A four-lane highway. At Ímuris the highway intersects with Mexico Federal Highway 2 (providing a vital link across the Sierra Madre Occidental between Sonora and Chihuahua ). The two highways merge until Santa Ana where Fed-2 (whose western corridor through Sonora serves as a critical link between the Baja California Peninsula and mainland Mexico) separates, heading westward towards its terminus in Tijuana . Traffic on Fed-15 south of Santa Ana increases as

156-550: A hub for those visiting the colonial town of Álamos , which is 48 kilometers (30 mi) inland toward the mountains of the Sierra Madre. Navojoa has a borderline semi-arid climate / desert climate ( Köppen climate classification BSh/BWh ) with warm winters and hot summers. Precipitation is scarce, but is more common during the summer months during the monsoon season. There are two main public sports facilities in Navojoa. One

195-547: A lower sense Los Mochis (IATA: LMM). HMO also receives low cost airlines' flights incoming from the main cities of the Republic such as: Mexico City, Guadalajara, Querétaro, Monterrey, Tijuana, Puebla among others. Navojoa also has a local airport (see: Navojoa Airport ) next to the industrial sector, which is suitable for light private planes. It is about 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) south of the city center. Several companies offer low, mid and luxury class bus services from Navojoa to

234-545: A more direct route towards Guadalajara north of the El Ceboruco volcano, the older (libre) Fed-15 segment crosses south of El Ceboruco as a two-lane highway, including a portion of roadway which directly traverses the mountain's volcanic field. Fed-15 passes through the colonial city of Ahuacatlán and then Ixtlán del Rio (site of the Los Toriles archeological site) before exiting Nayarit and entering Jalisco . After crossing

273-485: A small town called Huatabampo. The beach is named after the town, hence the name, "Huatabampito" where many families gather year long to enjoy the beauty of the ocean. The Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Dam , also called Mocúzarit, is a popular fishing spot and stores water used for irrigating the valley via the Mayo River. Other uses include kayaking, water-skiing, geoglyph-viewing and other leisure activities. Navojoa also acts as

312-509: A trajectory closely corresponding to Fed-15's modern-day alignment through Nayarit , Sinaloa , and Sonora . In Heroica Nogales, Fed-15 commences just south of the Nogales Grand Avenue Port of Entry and travels on Avenida López Mateos before becoming Avenida Alvaro Obregón, the city's main thoroughfare. After traversing the rest of Nogales, Fed-15 exits the city near an interchange with a spur of Fed-15D, continuing southwards as

351-683: Is "La Quinta Racquet Club" located in Los Naranjos neighborhood. The city of Navojoa has its own baseball team called Mayos de Navojoa which is a member of the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico , the most important baseball league in México. Well-known native baseball players, all of them played in MLB: El Monobloque: International Alternative music band Mayo language Too Many Requests If you report this error to

390-456: Is "Unidad Deportiva Faustino Félix Serna" with many different baseball, baseball and softball fields, basketball courts, a pool, a professional baseball stadium, a professional basketball arena and many other sport facilities. The other main sports center, "Unidad Deportiva Oriente" is located in the eastern part of the city. Private sports centers are available too, one of them is the "Casino Social de Navojoa", located near downtown. Another one

429-639: Is a primary north–south highway , and is a free part of the federal highways corridors ( Spanish : corredores carreteros federales ) of Mexico . The highway begins in the north at the Mexico–United States border at the Nogales Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora , and terminates to the south in Mexico City . Fed. 15 from Nogales to Mazatlán runs parallel to Fed. 15D , a tolled (cuota) part of

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468-493: Is an eco-museum with 89 petroglyphics carved in the stones over 500 years ago by the Mayo people. It is located next to the Mayo river, some kilometers north-west of Navojoa. The city is near the Gulf of California which offers a variety of beaches. The surrounding country is also popular for hunting ducks, doves and deer. Las Bocas , 30 miles south of Navojoa, is a small beach community on

507-670: Is in operation, connecting to the Mexican border in Nogales and to Guadalajara, Jalisco . The most important highway serving Navojoa is Mexican Federal Highway 15 , a four-lane highway which connects it to north to Ciudad Obregón, Guaymas, Hermosillo, Nogales and the United States of America; and to the south to the states of Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacán, State of Mexico and Mexico City. The main state routes serving Navojoa are Sonora State Highway 149 and Sonora State Highway 162 . Also,

546-602: The Arizona border. Ciudad Obregón International Airport (CEN) is the nearest commercial airport, 48 kilometers (30 mi) north of Navojoa. It receives flights from Guadalajara , Hermosillo , La Paz , Loreto , Los Cabos , Mexico City , Monterrey , and, internationally, from Los Angeles , Tucson , Phoenix and Houston in the United States. Airlines serving this airport include Aeromexico, AeroCalafia, Interjet, Volaris and low-cost airline VivaAerobus. Alternate Airports to CEN are Hermosillo Intl. Airport (IATA: HMO) and in

585-559: The Rio Yaqui . This area is defined by in great part by its agricultural fields and the increasing flatness of the Valle del Yaqui. In southern Sonora, Fed-15 crosses various indigenous Yaqui communities, including Vitam, as well as the Rio Mayo at Navojoa . Fed-15 leaves Sonora through rural Estación Don (northbound motorists traveling on Fed-15 must stop for agricultural inspection there). Within

624-513: The State of Mexico . Shortly after entering the State of Mexico, Fed-15 intersects with tolled State of Mexico State Route A-7 (offering motorists a faster connection to Toluca and Mexico City). Continuing east, Fed-15 expands into a four-lane divided roadway as it enters the state capital city of Toluca . After passing Toluca's central core, Fed-15 intersects Fed-55 and continues its journey eastbound along

663-519: The 1-km-long area between Tecnológico Avenue and Centenario Boulevard. The "Museo Regional del Mayo" (Mayo's Regional Museum) is located in the former railroad station building opposite Santa Fe Springs square. The Museum has 5 rooms which exhibit temporary paint, handicraft and sculpture expositions, pre-Hispanic and colonial objects, ethnographic expositions dedicated to the Mayos' culture and other objects related to Navojoa's history. The Tehuelibampo Museum

702-452: The Gulf of California that is frequently visited by the local residents of Navojoa during spring. (April–May). It is particularly popular during "Semana Santa" (Holy Week), when campers stay for seven days and then return to Navojoa for Easter celebrations. Many people from Navojoa own a second house in Las Bocas. Although one of the closer beaches to Navojoa is located about one hour away in

741-566: The Mayo tribe can be found along the Mayo River. Due to the city's distant location from Mexico City , the difficult times of Mexico's independence in the early 19th century were largely absent from the region. However, the city had some importance after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The Mexican Revolutionary Álvaro Obregón was born in Hacienda Siquisiva , a small town near Navojoa. Álvaro Obregón became president of Mexico after

780-615: The Mexican Federal Highway 15 corridor was also the corridor many Spanish expeditions followed in their colonization and founding of settlements that would later become communities in the modern-day Mexican northwest (such as Tepic , Mazatlán , and Hermosillo ) and U.S. southwest (such as Tucson and Yuma in Arizona, and Los Angeles , San Francisco , and other cities in present-day California). The famous Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Expedition of 1540–1542, for example, followed

819-627: The Mexican Republic and international destinations such as Tucson, Phoenix and Los Angeles in the US. Connections are offered by foreign partner companies to other USA and Canada destinations. A bus station was built in the north of the city; however it is not used and small stations in the city center are used instead. Old public city buses have been replaced with new models with air conditioning, called SUBA. They run every few minutes and provide simple and cheap transport. A north-south freight-only railroad

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858-468: The Periférico is a semi-beltway encompassing some of Navojoa's southern and western neighborhoods and it is used as a truck route or bypass for Mexican Federal Highway 15. It is enlarged from 2 to 4 lanes in the western section between Centenario Boulevard and Sosa Chávez Boulevard with the project ending in december of 2017. Although Navojoa's streets are almost all paved, horse-drawn carts are still used by

897-568: The Plaza de Armas and Catedral de Morelia (both located directly along the highway's alignment). East of Morelia's historic center, Fed-15 becomes the "Toluca-Morelia Highway." In eastern Michoacan Fed-15 reverts to a two-lane rural highway crossing agricultural communities and pine forests as the roadway ascends into mountain ranges. Passing Ciudad Hidalgo , Fed-15 travels near the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve before entering

936-468: The United States to the Canadian province of Alberta . One of Mexico's most important federal highways, Fed-15 covers a wide corridor of the country's west and northwest, linking Mexico City with the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at Heroica Nogales, Sonora , connecting some of the country's most important urban centers along the way, particularly Guadalajara , Toluca , Mazatlán , and Hermosillo . Much of

975-499: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 390766195 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:33:59 GMT Mexican Federal Highway 15 Federal Highway 15 ( Spanish : Carretera Federal 15 , Fed. 15 ) is Mexico 15 International Highway or Mexico - Nogales Highway ,

1014-444: The city of Jiquilpan . Fed-15 separates from Fed-110 at Jiquilpan, turning east towards the city of Zamora . Passing through the southern edge of Zamora, Fed-15 then travels to the state capital of Morelia . Pine forests surround the highway at this point, crossing junctions with Fed.-120 , Fed-14D , and Fed-14 before entering the historic city of Morelia. Fed-15 travels through the city's historic core, offering motorists access to

1053-489: The city's southwestern edge and travels through small communities along the southern shore of Lake Chapala (intersecting Fed-13) before crossing into the state of Michoacán . In this part of Fed-15's trajectory, the highway is known as the "Morelia-Guadalajara Highway" (Carretera Morelia-Guadalajara). Within the lush hills of Michoacán, Fed-15 continues its journey along the shore of Lake Chapala, turning south through Sahuayo where it joins Fed-110, traveling together towards

1092-512: The corridor between Guadalajara and Heroica Nogales parallels the Southern Pacific de México / Ferrocarril del Pacífico , with the railway's tracks often visible from Fed-15. Additionally, the Fed-15 corridor has historically been one of the most significant migration corridors for Mexican migrants headed towards the western and southwestern United States. Long before modern-day migration patterns,

1131-587: The federal highways corridors (los corredores carreteros federales); the portion of this northern stretch from the town of Eldorado southward within the Sinaloa is a limited-access highway . North of the U.S.-Mexico border, the highway continues to the north from the Port of Entry, as I-19 Business . The highway is the southern terminus of the CANAMEX Corridor , a trade corridor that stretches from Mexico north across

1170-648: The highway approaches the Sonoran state capital of Hermosillo . In addition to the Fed-15D tollway, the main highway intersections Mexican Federal Highway 16 , the only other paved highway connecting Sonora to Chihuahua across the Sierra Madre Occidental. South of Hermosillo, Fed-15 continues towards Ciudad Obregón by way of the historic port city of Guaymas . Views of the Sea of Cortez accompany motorists for this stretch of roadway until Fed-15 turns inland towards Ciudad Obregón crossing

1209-418: The main industries in Navojoa. The city gains importance through its geographic diversity featuring close access to coastal, desert, and southwest mountainous areas as well as its close proximity to the United States and the neighboring state of Sinaloa. Navojoa is 64 kilometers (40 mi) south of Ciudad Obregón connected primarily by a toll highway (Mex. 15) that extends north across the state of Sonora to

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1248-482: The main source of income, the Navojoa region is increasingly dependent on industrial foreign investment and aquaculture , especially shrimp farming . Two large swine production companies that export mainly to the United States, Germany and Japan, a recycled containerboard mill and box factory privately owned by Sonoran investors, as well as one brewery belonging to the FEMSA group (recently acquired from Heineken), are among

1287-527: The residents of the small surrounding communities ( San Ignacio Cohuirimpo , etc.). Horse carts are numerous enough that there is a parking lot reserved for them on Hidalgo Avenue near the City Market in central Navojoa. The following institutions of higher education are based in Navojoa: Navojoa has many hotels with a range of cost and quality. Most hotels are located off Pesqueira Street, mainly between

1326-624: The revolt and initiated an in the Mayo/Yaqui Valley, introducing modern agricultural techniques and making this valley one of the most prosperous agricultural regions in Mexico. Navojoa is part of the large economic center known as the Mayo Valley, which together with Ciudad Obregón and the Yaqui Valley, form one of the most productive agricultural regions in Mexico. Although agriculture remains

1365-590: The south by Fed-15D) again approaches the Sea of Cortez as it nears the port city of Mazatlán , crossing the Tropic of Cancer along the way. In Mazatlán another Fed-15D bypass offers long-distance motorists the chance to avoid local traffic. Within Mazatlán, Fed-15 travels as a surface street, Blvd. Luis Donaldo Colosio. South of Mazatlán at Villa Union , Fed-15 intersects with Fed-40 , an important east–west highway offering motorists

1404-534: The state line at Plan de Barrancas, Fed-15 crosses through Tequila and approaches metropolitan Guadalajara (Mexico's second-largest city). West of Guadalajara near the suburb of La Venta del Astillero, Fed-15 intersects with Fed-70 which provides highway access to Puerto Vallarta. Shortly afterwards, Fed-15 enters the city of Guadalajara, turning southwards by joining Fed-80 (with southbound access to Colima ), and Fed-54D with access to Ciudad Guzman . After entering Guadalajara, Fed-15 suddenly turns southward along

1443-464: The state of Nayarit . In northwestern Nayarit, Fed-15 links the communities of Acaponeta , Santiago Ixcuintla (via Fed-72 ), and the colonial era port city of San Blas (via Fed-74 ) to the state capital of Tepic . Departing from the Mexican west coast, the highway crosses the Rio Santiago, ascends steep mountains covered in lush forest before descending into Tepic and continuing eastward across

1482-550: The state of Sinaloa , agricultural fields grow in presence along the four-lane Fed-15 corridor as it approaches the city of Los Mochis . Continuing onwards the highway enters the cities of Guasave , Guamúchil and Pericos where Fed-15 intersects Fed-24 (with access to Badiraguato ) before entering the Sinaloan state capital city of Culiacán . Overpasses, controlled-access roadway designs, and stoplights define Fed-15's character through metropolitan Culiacán. The highway (paralleled to

1521-502: The state. In Tepic, Fed-15 travels along Avenida Insurgentes as a major urban artery, with some portions of the roadway including tunnels, separating the highway from some of the city's surface streets. Before leaving Tepic, signage directs motorists on Fed-15 towards the important Mexico Pacific coast highway Fed-200 (the tolled Fed-15D highways directly intersects it) with its access to the resort city of Puerto Vallarta . As modern, controlled-access, high-speed tolled (cuota) Fed-15D takes

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