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Port Famine, Sonora

Coordinates: 31°54′59″N 115°2′16″W / 31.91639°N 115.03778°W / 31.91639; -115.03778
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Port Famine
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Location
CountryMexico
LocationColorado River Delta
Coordinates31°54′59″N 115°2′16″W / 31.91639°N 115.03778°W / 31.91639; -115.03778 [1]
Details
Opened1854
Closed1870s

Port Famine was a steamboat landing and woodyard, supplying wood to the steamboats on the lower Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, from the 1854 to the late 1870s.

Geography

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Port Famine was located 40 miles above Robinson's Landing and 17 miles below Gridiron.[2] Port Famine lay along the east bank of the river 64 miles (103 km) below what is now the Sonora - Arizona border.[3]

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