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Sonora
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Sonora (Spanish) [soˈnora]
n
(Placename) a state of NW Mexico, on the Gulf of California: consists of a narrow coastal plain rising inland to the Sierra Madre Occidental; an important mining area in colonial times. Capital: Hermosillo. Pop.: 2 213 370 (2000). Area: 184 934 sq. km (71 403 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Sonora - ground snakes
genus Sonora
reptile genus - a genus of reptiles
Colubridae, family Colubridae - nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species
ground snake, Sonora semiannulata - small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America
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After spending hours hiking through the scrub and brush of the Sonora desert, the four had got just a mile and a half from the border.
Death at US-Mexico border reflects immigration tensions by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
It involves traveling the wilderness route of the Trail of Tears, heading through a deep forest wilderness on the Underground Railroad, and limping through the scorching wilderness of the Sonora Desert.
Space for God: February 25 by Berry, Malinda Elizabeth / Sojourners
com/ "The Storks of La Caridad" is Professor Emerita Florence Weinberg's third historical mystery featuring Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, a detective priest character based on an actual historical Jesuit missionary who was forcibly removed from his Sonora Desert mission around 1767 to be imprisoned for 6 years near Cadiz, Spain before being sent to La Caridad and the Norbertines for two years.
The Storks of La Caridad by Small Press Bookwatch
 
 
 
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