San Luis Mountains

The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern Pima County Arizona adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona–Sasabe, Sonora.

The range is northwest-southeast trending, about  in length. The range borders the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge to the west; both are in the southeast of the Altar Valley. The southeast of the range abuts Cobre Ridge, with various peaks, and Cobre Ridge borders the western edge of the Pajarito Wilderness, at the west end of the Pajarito Mountains.

The community of Arivaca lies in the valley northeast of the San Luis Mountains at the southeast end of the Las Guijas Mountains; Arivaca Lake lies about 5 mi upstream on Arivaca Wash. The International Border lies less than one mile south of the southern margin of the range in Fresnal Wash. Cumero Mountain Peak at  is  north of the border.

Two mountain ranges, the San Luis in the southwest, and the Cerro Colorado Mountains northwest lie west of the four-mountain sequence of the Tumacacori Highlands-(of adjacent western Santa Cruz County) of the Tumacacori, Atascosa, Pajarito, and the Sierra La Esmeralda mountain ranges. The Highlands are now part of a conservancy study of wild cat 'travel corridor' usage between mountains, the study called Cuatros Gatos-(Four Cats), for the mountain lions, bobcat, ocelot, and jaguar.

References 

 Arizona Highways. Emerald Isle, Terry Greene Sterling, photography, Jack Dykinga, February, 2010, p 40-43.

External links 
 San Luis Mountains at Mountainzone

Ecology
 Euphorbia, (spurge) plants, Universidad de Sonora (DICTUS)

Category:Mountain ranges of Pima County, Arizona
Category:Mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert
Category:Mountain ranges of Arizona