Puerto Peñasco Municipality
Puerto Peñasco | |
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Location of the municipality in Sonora | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Sonora |
| Seat | Puerto Peñasco |
| Population (2015) | |
• Total | 62,177 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Zona Pacífico) |
Puerto Peñasco is a municipality in the state of Sonora in north-western Mexico. As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 62,177 inhabitants. The only locality with a significant population is the municipal seat, also named Puerto Peñasco, which contains almost 99% of the municipality's population.
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.