Pajarito Mountains

Pajarito Mountains
Pajarito Mountains Pajarito Mountains in Arizona
Highest point
Peak	Pajarito Peak (Pajarito Mountains)
Elevation	5,236 ft (1,596 m)
Coordinates	31°21′05″N 111°05′58″W / 31.35149°N 111.09954°W / 31.35149; -111.09954Coordinates: 31°21′05″N 111°05′58″W / 31.35149°N 111.09954°W / 31.35149; -111.09954
Dimensions
Length	6 mi (9.7 km) N-S
Width	12 mi (19 km) E-W
Geography
Country	United States
States	Arizona and Sonora
Region	Tumacacori Highlands ((northeast)-Sonoran Desert)
District	Santa Cruz County, AZ
Settlement	Nogales, AZ-SE
Borders on	Atascosa Mountains-N Peña Blanca Lake-N U.S.-Mexico border-S Sierra La Esmeralda-S

The Pajarito Mountains are a small mountain range of western Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The range is adjacent the Atascosa Mountains at its north, with both ranges in the center of a north-south sequence of ranges called the Tumacacori Highlands. The Highlands have the Tumacacori Mountains at the north, and south of the U.S.-Mexico border, the Sierra La Esmeralda range, (the Emerald Mountains). The Tumacacori Highlands are part of a regional conservancy study of 'travel corridors' for cats, called Cuatro Gatos, Four Cats, for mountain lions, ocelot, bobcat, and jaguar.

The lower elevation Cerro Colorado Mountains to the northwest, and the San Luis Mountains, west are also part of the Highlands region. At the west of the Pajaritos and adjacent to the San Luis range, and Cobre Ridge peaks, is the Pajarito Wilderness. East of the Highlands is the Santa Cruz River Valley corridor.

The highest peak in the range is Pajarito Peak at 5,236 feet (1,596 m) due south of Peña Blanca Lake; the peak is at the headwaters of Calabasas and Pesquiera Canyons. In the west of the range at the Pajarito Wilderness, a water divide makes some drainages flow south into northern Sonora. The other drainages flow northeast to the Santa Cruz River, or northwest to the north-flowing Altar Valley. Cobre Ridge at the northwest merges into the southwest San Luis Mountains, and the peaks of Cobre Ridge range from Black Peak, 5,086 feet (1,550 m) in the northwest, Cobre Mountain, then Bartlett Mountain, 4,107 feet (1,252 m) and Flat Top Mountain, 4,222 feet (1,287 m) at the west of the Pajarito Wilderness.