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San Luis Río Colorado is a city and also the name of its surrounding municipality in the state of Sonora, Mexico. In the 2020 census, the city had a population of 176,685. [ 1 ] The city is the fourth-largest community in the state, and the municipality is also the fourth-largest in terms of population.
Porto has generally moderate temperatures. The average annual high is around 20 °C (68 °F) and average low around 11 °C (52 °F). The climate is also only mildly seasonal, from a maxima of 14 °C (57 °F) in January to 25–26 °C (77–79 °F) in August, while minima is around 5–6 °C (41–43 °F) in January and 15–16 °C (59–61 °F) in July and August.
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 km 2. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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 ...
The village of San Luis remained part of the Territory of New Mexico until 1861 when the Territory of Colorado was established. San Luis became the seat of Costilla County in 1863, and remains so to this day. Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson, Commander of Fort Garland, negotiated a treaty with the Ute people in 1867. Colorado became a state in ...
Río Colorado has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk). [2] Winters are cool with a July mean of 7.4 °C (45.3 °F), with temperatures that frequently drop below 0 °C (32.0 °F) and occasionally below −10 °C (14.0 °F). [3] [4] Cloudy days are common during winter, averaging 7–8 days from June to August. [3]
The San Luis Valley is the broad, generally flat, valley at the headwaters of the Rio Grande in south central Colorado and far north central New Mexico. The northern portion of the San Luis Valley is an endorheic basin; surface water does not exit this area.
The closed basin of the San Luis Valley covers 2,940 square miles (7,600 km 2) between the San Luis Hills in the south, the San Juan Mountains to the west, Poncha Pass to the north and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the east. [1] The basin is separated by a hydraulic divide at the southern end from the Rio Grande watershed. [2]
The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad (formerly the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad) is a class III railroad operating in south-central Colorado. It runs on 154 miles (248 km) of former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks on three lines radiating from Alamosa and interchanges with the railroads BNSF and Union Pacific in Walsenburg.