ɟThe Yaqui River (Río Yaquiin Spanish) is a river in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico. Being the largest river system in the state of Sonora, Yaqui river is used for irrigation. The Murray River in Australia. ... Sonora is a state in northwestern Mexico, bordering the states of Chihuahua to the east, Sinaloa to the south, and Baja California to the northwest. ... Sonora is a state in northwestern Mexico, bordering the states of Chihuahua to the east, Sinaloa to the south, and Baja California to the northwest. ... High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ...

With approximately 320km (200mi) in length, it flows south and southwest to empty into the Gulf of California. However, there seems to be various versions of the length of the river. According to the information provided by México para niños, a site which belongs to the Presidency of the Republic of Mexico, the river has a length of 554 kilometers, while the article of Río Yaqui in the Spanish Wikipedia states that the length is about 700 kilometers. The Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or, much less frequently, Golfo de California) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. ...

Yaqui river originates in the Sierra Madre Occidental and flows into the Gulf of California near the port of Guaymas. The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in western Mexico and the extreme southwest of the United States, extending 1500 km from southeast Arizona (south and east of Tucson) southeast through eastern Sonora, western Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes to Guanajuato, where it joins with the Sierra Madre Oriental and... The Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or, much less frequently, Golfo de California) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. ... Guaymas is a port city in Sonora, Mexico. ...

Its course is interrupted by several reservoirs like Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo), Lázaro Cárdenas (Angostura), or Álvaro Obregón (El Oviáchic), which provides the water resource for the intensively irrigated region of Ciudad Obregón. Ciudad Obregón (also known simply as Obregón) is the second largest city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and is situated 576 km south of Mexicos border with the U.S. state of Arizona at 27° 29′ 38″ N 109° 56′ 20″ W. It is also...