By Howard Scott Gentry
Vol. 37, Number 2, Summer 1995, pp. 280-293
The Rio Mayo is one of the principal rivers in the state of Sonora, Mexico, originating in the Sierra Madre of western Chihuahua and discharging into the Gulf of California 40 miles north of the boundary between Sonora and Sinaloa. The area of its drainage basin is approximately 6,800 square miles. The boundary of the basin is a ragged line following the mountain divides which separate it from the Rio Yaqui watershed on the north and from the Rio Fuerte watershed on the South...