Port Famine, Sonora

For Port Famine in Argentina, see Puerto del Hambre.

Port Famine Puerto Carestía
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Port Famine Puerto Carestía class=notpageimage| Location in Mexico
Location
Country	Mexico
Location	Colorado River Delta
Coordinates	31°54′59″N115°2′16″W / 31.91639°N 115.03778°W / 31.91639; -115.03778 [1]
Details
Opened	1854
Closed	1870s

Port Famine was a steamboat landing and woodyard, supplying wood to the steamboats on the lower Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, from the 1854 to the late 1870s.

Geography

Port Famine was located 40 miles above Robinson's Landing and 17 miles below Gridiron. ^[2] Port Famine lay along the east bank of the river 64 miles (103 km) below what is now the Sonora - Arizona border. ^[3]

References

1. EL RÍO Año VI, núm. 22, octubre-diciembre de 2013
2. Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, p.12,167
3. Lingenfelter, Steamboats, p.10 Map: Steamboat Landings on the Colorado River in the 1850s

External links

• DavidRumsey.com: "Geological Map No. 1." Prepared by J.S. Newberry, M.D. Geologist to the Expedition. — Explorations and Surveys of U.S. War Department, "Map No. 1. Rio Colorado of the West" explored by 1st Lieut. Joseph C. Ives, Topl. Engrs. under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys. A.A. Humphreys, Capt. Topl. Engrs. in Charge, by 1858 order of the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War. — Drawn by Frhr. F.W.v. Egloffstein. Topographer to the Expedition. Topography by Frhr. F.W.v. Egloffstein. Ruling by Samuel Sartain. Lettering by F. Courtenay. 1858.