Agua Prieta Municipality | |
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 Location of the municipality in Sonora. | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State |  Sonora |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 82,918 [1] |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (No DST) |
Agua Prieta Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora in north-western Mexico. [2] As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 82,918. [1]
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Whitewater Draw, originally Rio de Agua Prieta, [Spanish: river of dark water], is a tributary stream of the Rio de Agua Prieta in Cochise County, Arizona. It was called Blackwater Creek by Philip St. George Cooke when his command, the Mormon Battalion, camped at a spring on its course on December 5, 1846.
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XHFH-FM is a radio station on 107.9 FM in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. It is known as Radio Plan de Agua Prieta.
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Places adjacent to Agua Prieta Municipality | |
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