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	Agua Prieta Sonora
		While inhabited as early as the end of the eighteen century, the origins of the population of Agua Prieta are dated to 1899, two years after the construction of the railway from Nacozari to Douglas.
		To the north are the states of Texas and Arizona in the US; to the east, linked to the state of Sonora by highway 2, lies the state of Chihuahua; to the south, Nacozari; and to the west, Cananea and Naco.
		The efforts to preserve the culture of the city are clear in Agua Prieta.
	www.gotosonora.com /agua-prieta-son-mx.htm (284 words)

	EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: AGUA PRIETA SONORA
		Agua Prieta, Sonora, like other communities and cities in Mexico and other parts of the world, currently faces serious environmental pollution caused in large part by the inadequate and inefficient disposal of solid and liquid wastes in the community.
		The environmental problems currently experienced by the community of Agua Prieta, generated by the inadequate disposal of its solid wastes, are critical due to their negative impact.
		Purchase of the 49.4 acre plot of land from the Ejido Agua Prieta.
	www.cocef.org /aproyectos/ing529.htm (7109 words)

	Agua Prieta, Sonora - México (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Border crossing city with the United States of America located at the northeast of the State of Sonora takes its name that translated means Dark Waters, from the color the water took at the natural reservoirs.
		Agua Prieta is one of the youngest cities of Sonora - on November 11th, 1942 it was declared as such.
		Crossing the Mexico-USA border, visit Cochise County: Bisbee - a city that preserves the european architecture of the XIX century - and Tombstone famous and legendary town of the old wild west.
	www.sonora-mexico.com /aguaprieta2.htm (160 words)

	Sonora Travel - The best way to Mexico!
		Agua Prieta started raising by 1901 when the construction of the railroad from Douglas, "Its Sister City", to the Nacozari mine began.
		This movement encouraged the growth of the recently born town called Agua Prieta.
		Years after, in 1920, Agua Prieta was involved in the Revolution War and here the document called "The Agua Prieta Plant" was accepted and signed by the Sonoran generals disapproving Venustiano Carranza's government.
	www.sonoratravel.com /destinations/aguaprieta/index.php (228 words)

	Agua Prieta Sonora Mexico on the Route of the Rio Sonora
		Agua Prieta is one of two gateways to the Rio Sonora region.
		The town of Agua Prieta, Sonora was established in 1899 after originally having been settled by the Chiricahua Apache Indians.
		Agua Prieta is also a major commercial port for Mexican products and goods being exported to the United States.
	www.riosonora.com /aguaprieta.html (298 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Borderline Hope (March 21 - March 27, 2002)
		But in an earlier interview, Mayor Abraham Zaied of Nogales, Sonora, said blaming his city for the region's countless environmental problems was unfair.
		In Agua Prieta, Caicedo, Duberstein and others have helped create wetlands near the municipal sewage ponds.
		Soto gazes across Agua Prieta's plaza, mostly barren of vegetation.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-03-21/feat.html (4238 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Phelps Dodge Corp Douglas Reduction Works, Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
		Vegetation is relatively sparse; surface soils are dry and consist of silty sand and gravel (9).
		The average annual wind speed is 8.3 mph and from the southeast out of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico; winds shift and blow towards Mexico in the evening (28).
		Given the dryness of surface soils and the unpaved roads in Agua Prieta, the windy and dry weather is reported to generate moderate to heavy amounts of ambient dust in Douglas (11).
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/phelps/phe_p1.html (3895 words)

	Agua Prieta travel guide
		Agua Prieta travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
		Just across the border from Douglas Arizona, the mining town of Agua Prieta starting booming in the beginning of the 1900s, and today is a transit center of growing importance.
		For many tourists and travelers from the east, this frontier town functions as a gateway to Sonora State, especially for the fascinating drive down the Ruta del Río Sonora.
	www.world66.com /northamerica/mexico/aguaprieta (108 words)

	Agua Prietas
		According to Lisa Ortega and Pola Pantoja, the two full-time CFO workers in Agua Prieta (located just across the border from Douglas, Arizona), maquiladora workers are afraid to organize and act.
		According to Pantoja and Ortega, workers in Agua Prieta are afraid to risk their jobs or being fllisted for fighting for independent unions even when the economy is good.
		Until such time that the CFO and Agua Prieta workers feel that they can begin to make demands for better wages and working conditions, the CFO will continue with its educational program and its "comunidades de base" (base communities) program.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/december21/AGUA.HTM (870 words)

	Agua Prieta
		Agua Prieta (AP) is located immediately across the border from the town of
		Agua Prieta was the first step in our Conference-wide Hands-on Mission project in Mexico, and was initiated as a major Conference initiative in the summer of 2001 when the Covenant Council approved it as a major outreach ministry.
		The Mayor of Agua Prieta (upon seeing what was being done in Fuente de Vida) donated the corner lot on which there was a partially completed cinder-block building with a dirt floor.
	www.desertsw.org /aguaprieta.html (1389 words)

	Climbing Kilimanjaro for people of Agua Prieta \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		He wants to raise $10,000 in contributions to provide food, clothing, fresh water and a mobile health clinic for the people of Agua Prieta, Sonora.
		"There's just a desperate need in Agua Prieta, and this is one way to try to do something about it," said Haupt, 77, of Benson.
		They chose Agua Prieta for their efforts after visiting the town and observing a great need for food, clothing and other items.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/15008 (749 words)

	Kolbe (AZ08) - Press Release - Douglas to Finally Receive Relief from Air Pollution, Announces Kolbe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The city of Agua Prieta is located in the northeast region of the state of Sonora in Mexico, across the border from Douglas, Arizona.
		Currently, 80 percent of the streets in Agua Prieta are unpaved.
		Beginning in 1999, the city of Agua Prieta initiated an ambitious program to improve regional air quality by increasing paved street coverage from 19.7 to 27 percent.
	www.house.gov /kolbe/press2003/Douglas_Air_31902.html (620 words)

	Archives: Story
		Robeson was born June 12, 1953 in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.
		He was also a member of the Archery Club in Agua Prieta, Sonora and enjoyed hunting.
		He is also survived by his father, William Robeson of Agua Prieta, Sonora.
	www.douglasdispatch.com /articles/2004/12/01/obituaries/obit13.txt (449 words)

	Civic Orchestra of Tucson to play in Agua Prieta \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The orchestra on Saturday will perform its first ever international concert, in the Agua Prieta, Sonora, Civic Auditorium, Seventh Street and 15th Avenue.
		Herschel Kreloff will conduct the orchestra, and Agua Prieta native pianist Jose Solórzano will perform the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 16.
		Agua Prieta is located across the border from Douglas, about 125 miles southeast of Tucson.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/15253 (265 words)

	BorderLines 4-Border Dependence on Drugs Grow
		In Agua Prieta, the owner of a local juice stand observed, the construction contractors here charge three or four times more than in Douglas because it is easier to get money from drug trafficking in Agua Prieta.
		An Agua Prieta municipal police officer, too low in the chain of command to be a target for narcotics-related corruption, asserted, Narcos and the federal police agencies are virtually the same thing.
		A Nogales, Sonora, journalist explained how the network of police corruption works along the border: One of the first things a new federal agent does when assigned to border drug-enforcement is to get to know the local madrinas.
	www.irc-online.org /us-mex/borderlines/1993/bl4-drug.html (2253 words)

	City of Tucson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In late May, Tucson’s Mayor and Council approved the ongoing donation of used garbage containers to the City of Agua Prieta, Sonora.
		By donating the containers to Agua Prieta, the City will avoid having to dispose of the containers and will save the costs of disposal as well as valuable space in the Los Reales Landfill.
		While the City of Tucson can no longer use the containers, the City of Agua Prieta, Sonora will be able to provide them to residents.
	www.ci.tucson.az.us /hottopics/aguaprietacontainers.html (273 words)

	Just Coffee - Caffeine with a Conscience
		is a coffee grower cooperative based in Salvador Urbina, Chiapas Mexico, with facilities Agua Prieta, Sonora Mexico and Douglas Arizona.
		The coffee is harvested, cleaned and prepared for shipping as green beans, (what is called "oro" - gold) from the very southern tip of Mexico in Salvador Urbina Chiapas, to the far northern frontier of Mexico in Agua Prieta, Sonora.
		In Agua Prieta we will roast, grind and package the coffee in small, air-tight bags for crossing over into Douglas Arizona,USA and shipped to our customers.
	www.justcoffee.org /index.shtml (390 words)

	SAS/UofA BORDERLINKS TRIP TO SONORA, MEXICO : AZ IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Students Against Sweatshops has organized a trip with the University of Arizona administration to Agua Prieta, Sonora, with the Tucson group Borderlinks.
		During the trip, University of Arizona activists, administrators, and students from the business school will be given a tour of a maquila in Agua Prieta, Mexico, as well as a visit the colonias where workers live.
		Most workers in Agua Prieta, although they labor in factories that are clean and appear in working order on the surface, live in abject conditions in the colonias nearby.
	arizona.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=533 (340 words)

	ADHS: Division of Public Health Services: Office of Border Health: Office of Border Health Newsletter
		The overreaching objective is to increase vaccination coverage to infants and children between 0 to 5 years living along the border area.
		e sister communities of Ambos Nogales (both Nogales Arizona and Sonora), Cochise County and their sister communities of Naco and Agua Prieta, Sonrora and Yuma County and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora have agreed to work jointly to improve the immunization rates of children living along the border.
		The inauguration ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Agua Prieta Arch in Agua Prieta, Sonora.
	www.azdhs.gov /phs/borderhealth/newsletter_page.htm (807 words)

	Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico (Agua Prieta to Cuauhtemoc) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico (Agua Prieta to Cuauhtemoc)
		We had to go to immigration to get our 6 month visa, then to the bank to pay our entrance fee (ouch!!), it use to be free to get into Mexico but now we pay $21 US dollars each.
		Agua Prieta was the typical border town, disgusting.
	www.downtheroad.org /Journals/3NorthMexi.htm (3374 words)

	eBay - mexico agua, Postcards Paper, Religions, Spirituality items on eBay.com
		RPPC of Train Station Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico
		1958 Postcard Mexico Iglesia Y Jardin Agua Prieta Son.
		RP Agua Prieta Mexico White House Club & Cabaret ca1940
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=mexico+agua&newu=1&krd=1 (348 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Currents : Capturing Crossings
		One of the last photos in the project, "Agua Prieta, Sonora/Douglas, Arizona, 2001," shows migrants stealthily trying to cross into Arizona.
		When it was taken in 2001, Agua Prieta was still the hot crossing.
		His openness to experience--and patience--is what allows him to get shots like "Nogales, Sonora, 1995," a picture of the classic Mexican tan dog scrounging beneath a bright red banner, at the exact moment that a woman in a red dress strolls past the hillside homes.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:67991 (2236 words)

	Sierra Vista Herald \| The Bisbee Daily Review
		But even more important for Haupt, it gave him an opportunity to raise $12,000 for poor families in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.
		He hikes are to benefit the Starfish Difference, a non-profit organization founded by Carl and Sarah Haupt to help Agua Prieta’s poorest of the poor.
		Conditions in Agua Prieta’s poor areas are so bad, that Carl and his wife, Sarah Haupt, have made about 250 trips into the city since starting Starfish Difference three years ago.
	www.svherald.com /articles/2005/11/28/local_news/news2.txt (822 words)

	Border Action Network: Pressroom
		WHAT: On Tuesday, August 12th, the Border Action Network is holding a press conference in Spanish in Agua Prieta, Sonora and a press briefing in English in Tucson, Arizona announcing the launch of the "Stop Vigilantes" campaign.
		SPEAKERS: Agua Prieta: Consul Miguel Escobar Valdez of the Mexican Consulate in Douglas
		Digital photos and digital video footage of the press conference in Agua Prieta will be made available by 5:00pm for reporters who attend the briefing and/or the press conference.
	www.borderaction.org /press2.php?articleID=6 (312 words)

	Minuteman Project causes concern in Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That concerns Agua Prieta Mayor David Figueroa and Douglas Mayor Ray Borane.
		That's why the Agua Prieta Mayor called a meeting with 50 other local and national officials.
		They're united with the Mayor of Agua Prieta and they're saying they're hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1375432/posts (2910 words)

	Vigilantes stir fear at border
		9, 2002 12:00 AM AGUA PRIETA, SONORA - Mexicans hoping to cross the border in search of a livelihood are becoming increasingly alarmed.
		So far, there have been no known shootings by members of the armed patrols, although Ranch Rescue last month said it chased a group of marijuana smugglers back into Mexico.
		An Agua Prieta cab driver who identified himself only as Isa said immigrants, who come to his town from all over Mexico, are asking him about vigilantes.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/special03/articles/1209vigilante09.html (596 words)

	Economic Promotion - Agua Prieta Sonora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We invite you to visit Agua Prieta and explore the business opportunities here.
		You will find an open and friendly community that is used to hard work and quality.
		Please give me a call or send me an e-mail if you have any questions regarding this information, we will be happy to answer all you questions.
	www.aguaprieta.gob.mx /promocion-economica (75 words)

	Archives: Story
		Alicia R. Torres went to be with our Lord on Wednesday, July 20, 2005.
		Alicia was born November 20, 1917 in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico to Manuel and Serafina Rojas.
		Her first years of school were in Agua Prieta, Sonora before attending Loretto Catholic School in Douglas.
	www.douglasdispatch.com /articles/2005/08/04/obituaries/obit8.txt (501 words)

	Border Ecology Project BEP
		The latter project has led to onsite investigations of sources of dumping of toxics in Agua Prieta, Sonora, as well as complex community-NGO long range water monitoring and planning for protection on the Sonoran side of the San Pedro River and Rio Sonora.
		Environmental Health: Environmental health impacts are difficult to understand and painful to deal with, and BEP has been involved with health issues since our inception.
		BEP worked with local citizens in Douglas and Agua Prieta to better understand the incidence and potential factors involved in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in those communities (catalyzing community input and a clinical lupus study in Douglas), and to gain better access to health care.
	www.borderecoweb.sdsu.edu /bew/drct_pgs/b/bep.html (1672 words)

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