| Arivaca | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Tribe: | Anerastiini |
| Genus: | Arivaca J. C. Shaffer, 1968 [1] [2] |
Arivaca is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Jay C. Shaffer in 1968. [1]
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Arivaca is an unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It is located 11 miles (18 km) north of the Mexican border and 35 miles (56 km) northwest of the port of entry at Nogales. The European-American history of the area dates back at least to 1695, although the community was not founded until 1878. Arivaca has the ZIP code 85601. The 85601 ZIP Code Tabulation Area had a population of 909 at the 2000 census.
State Route 289 is a highway in Santa Cruz County, Arizona that runs from its junction with Interstate 19 to the north of Nogales, to Peña Blanca Lake. It is an east–west route.
The Cerro Colorado Mountains are a low mountain range in southern Pima County, Arizona, USA. The highest point of the range is Colorado Peak. The range consists of a NNW–SSE trending ridge with several shorter ridges extending off the main ridge to the ENE. The higher portions of the range cover an area of about 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi), with dimensions of 6.8 km (4.2 mi) by 4.0 km (2.5 mi).
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge provides 117,107 acres (47,392 ha) of habitat for threatened and endangered plants and animals. This refuge, in Pima County, Arizona, was established in 1985.
The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern Pima County Arizona adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona–Sasabe, Sonora.
Arivaca pimella is a species of snout moth described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1906. It is found in the US in southern Arizona.
Arivaca linella is a species of snout moth described by Jay C. Shaffer in 1968. It is found in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico.
Arivaca ostreella is a species of snout moth described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887. It is found in the US from southern Arizona through New Mexico to Texas.
Arivaca poohella is a species of snout moth described by Jay C. Shaffer in 1968. It is found in the US from southern Arizona through New Mexico to Texas.
Arivaca albidella is a species of snout moth described by George Duryea Hulst in 1900. It is found in the Southwestern United States.
Arivaca artella is a species of snout moth. It is found in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico.
Arivaca albicostella is a species of snout moth. It is found in the US in southern Florida.
The Anerastiini are a tribe of moths of the family Pyralidae.
The Las Guijas Mountains are a small northwest–southeast trending mountain range in southern Pima County, Arizona. The range is approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long by 4 km (2.5 mi). Surrounding ranges includes the Cerro Colorado Mountains to the northeast, the Tumacacori Mountains of Santa Cruz County to the east, the San Luis Mountains to the south and the Baboquivari Mountains across the Altar Valley to the west. Arivaca is immediately to the southeast and the old mining townsite of Las Guijas is in the wash just north of the range.
Arivaca Creek is a small valley stream in southern Pima County, Arizona, that is approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long from its origin in Arivaca Valley to its confluence with the Brawley Wash stream system. As a seasonal stream, Arivaca Creek is perennial for only about two miles most years and experiences its greatest stream-flow during winter and the summer Monsoon season.
Arivaca Junction is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,090 at the 2010 census. As of July 1, 2015, it had an estimated population of 1,065. Arivaca Junction has an estimated elevation of 3,140 feet (960 m) above sea level.
The 2015 Amado checkpoint protest took place on May 27, 2015, when approximately seventy-five protesters held a demonstration at the United States Border Patrol checkpoint along Arivaca Road in Amado, Arizona, about 35 miles south of Tucson.
In an incident, the 2018 Chimney Canyon shootout on 12 June 2018, at a remote area of southern Arizona, near the community of Arivaca, a United States Border Patrol agent was wounded in an early morning shootout with Mexican smugglers.