Tohono Oodham Nation Employment

Tohono Oodham Nation Employment

Tohono Oodham Nation Employment

You can be on the trail of the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. Find his traces at the mission preserved at Tumacacori National Historical Park, Tumacacori, AZ, 62 mi. southwest of Tucson. Walk in the footsteps of the 1,200-mile journey he led to California in 1775.

Part of the reason that his trip started at Tumacacori, is that the Santa Cruz River flows by the mission. Today there's no water in many Arizona rivers. But there's water in the Santa Cruz River today near Tumacacori, because the U.S. has its tax dollars at work. The Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant – just a few miles south of there – is putting approximately 15.5 million gallons a day of treated sewage affluent, of which approximately 80% is from the Mexican city of Nogales, into the Santa Cruz River.

The Santa Cruz: an Odd River

The Santa Cruz River is an odd river. Its headwaters are in the San Rafael Valley of Arizona. It flows south into Mexico. It makes a U-turn and then flows north by the Mexican and American cities of Nogales. It continues north to flow by Tumacacori and then the western edge of Tucson before it joins the Gila River north of Gila Bend, Arizona.


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