Sierra Pinta

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Sierra Pinta
Range
Country	United States
State	Arizona

Highest point	unnamed
- elevation	2,202 ft (671 m)

The Sierra Pinta, (Spanish for "Mountains Spot-(Mark)"), is a medium-sized, very narrow, block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about 22 miles (35 km) long in southwestern Arizona in the southwestern Sonoran Desert, the hottest part of southwestern Arizona, and just north of the Pinacate Reserve of northern Sonora, Mexico.

The north end of the range contains the peak called Point of the Pintas at 1,272 feet (388 m), then Bean Pass; adjacent southwards is the peak Isla Pinta, at 2,008 feet (612 m), and Sunday Pass. The Sierra Pinta range is towards the southern end of the Mohawk Valley which also borders the range on the east, and east to the Bryan Mountains. West of the Sierra Pinta's is the Tule Desert (Arizona), and south in northern Sonora is the El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar, the extensive, and active volcanic and cinder cone field, and preserve. The highest peak in the range is in the south and is unnamed at 2,202 feet (671 m).

[edit] Roads, and the region

West of the northwest end of the Sierra Pinta's, the north-south "Christmas Pass Road" goes south from Interstate 8 and through Christmas Pass, adjacent to the Tule Desert, on the southeast end of the Cabeza Prieta Mountains, (all to the southwest of the Sierra Pintas). The road terminates close by at the US-Mexico Border unimproved road called the El Camino del Diablo, which parallels the border. This is a no man's land region in the high point of summer heat.

The Sierra Pintas lie in the central-western portion of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. The closest access point from the north is Mohawk on Interstate 8 in Arizona. Ajo, Arizona is 35 air miles eastward beyond two mountain ranges and velleys; Sonoyta, Sonora is slightly southeastwards at the south border crossing of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.