| San Luis Mountains | |
| Range | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Arizona |
| Region | Sonoran Desert-N |
| Municipality | Arivaca, Arizona-(northeast foothills) (Sasabe, AZ-SW) |
| Borders on | Altar Valley-NW & W Buenos Aires Refuge-W Cerro Colorado Mtns-NE Arivaca Lake-E Pajarito Wilderness-SE |
| Highest point | ? |
| - elevation | 4,085 ft (1,245 m) |
| Length | 10 mi (16 km), NW x SE |
| Width | 5 mi (8 km) |
The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern Pima County Arizona adjacent the U.S.-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona–Sasabe, Sonora.
The range is northwest-southeast trending, about 8-10 miles 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 on the northeast foothills of the San Luis Mountains; Arivaca Lake lies about 5 mi upstream on Arivaca Wash.
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.[1]
Ecology