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For over 1,000 years, travelers have used El Camino del Diablo to cross the harsh Sonoran Desert between settlements in what is now the state of Sonora in Mexico and the Colorado River in what is now Yuma, Arizona.
Known as both El Camino del Diablo and El Camino del Muerto—Spanish for the Devil’s Highway and Road of the Dead—its names allude to the dangers travelers have faced along this route.Top Places in Arizona
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The Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona is one of the harshest environments that one could find themselves in on the planet, yet humans have managed to live in the area for over 10,000 years. Temperatures over 120 degrees Fahrenheit have been measured there and water is extremely scarce. For the hunter-gatherer population that inhabited the area before European conquest, it was frequently necessary to seasonally migrate across the region to where food and water were more readily available. Passing near rare springs and pools in the mountains that seasonally fill with water before reaching the Colorado River, the route of El Camino del Diablo is more determined by the location of water sources than…
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