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Sonora is a desert state in Northern Mexico. While it is not near the top of most people's travel plans, it is not without charm.

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• Alamos - a fine colonial town
• Agua Prieta
• Guaymas - fishing and resort city
• Hermosillo - a bustling city of nearly a million people
• Puerto Peñasco - called "Rocky Point" by north americans, it is the nearest beach resort to Arizona
• Ciudad Obregón - a quite new and nice city
• Bahía de Kino - a small but nice beach community near Hermosillo. Bahía de Kino has really nice beaches in a really calm enviroment
• San Luis Rio Colorado - a border town
• Nogales
• Desemboque

[edit] Other destinations

• Altar Desert - the desert spanning Sonora and Baja California
• Isla Tiburon -- one of the premier wildlife refuges and sanctuaries in Mexico.

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• The Pinacate Nature Reserve, just south of the U.S. border, a stunning example of desert landscape.

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• If you are a meat eater, you must look out for carne asada tacos. The residents of the region are justifiably proud of their beef industry.
• In Hermosillo you can have lots of different "night food", ranging from tacos de carne asada, sonoran style hotdogs, burro percheron (a burrito on steroids, by this meaning huge), traditional "fondas" and even sushi wagons in some places.
• In Ciudad Obregón everybody should try "tacos cebositos", one of the cities specialties or having a cocunut by "la laguna del Nainari" as well as Horchata de coco.

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• The local brandy is cheap and good.
• Just like Jalisco has Tequila, Sonora has Bacanora, another drink made out of the destillation of agave. It's a quite famous drink among the northwest of Mexico. It is produced mainly on the Bacanora region on the Sierra region of Sonora

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