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Sonora

Argelia Gil Samaniego has been practicing highline for a couple years, but the Cruz del Diablo was by far her most ambitious effort yet.

Hundreds of feet in the air, Sonoran highliners face fears and find balance

Sports

The combination of a vast, geographically diverse space and such a young sport means that highlining has a lot of potential in Sonora, with room to grow. A group of highliners use the opportunity to practice their discipline that features balancing on lines strung dozens — even hundreds — of feet in the air.

People living in Punta Chueca, home to the Comcáac, have struggled with a lack of fresh water for generations.

Desalination brings fresh water — and concern — to an Indigenous village in northern Mexico

Environment
Organ Pipe cactus

US-Mexico border wall threatens sacred Native lands

Borders
A family wearing protective face masks walks toward the US at the Paso del Norte International Border bridge.

US-Mexico border closure brings local economy to a halt

COVID-19

Return to Mexico

Lifestyle & Belief
The World

Mexican Gold

Across the Mexican state of Sonora, US and other foreign mining companies are searching for gold, and creating local jobs. But some say this income bears a high cultural and ecological cost to Mexico’s Indian communities. Sandy Tolan reports.

The Cienega de Santa Clara wetland, in Sonora province in northwestern Mexico, is fed by runoff from U.S. farms irrigated with water from the Colorado River.

At the end of the Colorado, a new rift opens over the river’s last drops

Environment

A plan by the U.S. to reuse polluted Colorado River water that now flows across the Border into Mexico is putting one of the region’s last wildlife refuges, and a number of Mexican farms, at risk.