San Luis Rio Colorado
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San Luis Río Colorado is a city in the Mexican state of Sonora. It is located at , on the Río Colorado, which at this point marks the state border with Baja California. It also stands on the international border with the United States, adjacent to San Luis, Arizona. As of 2000, it had a population of 145,006.
It is located about 20 miles from Yuma, Arizona. Because Mexico has a lower moral standards than the United States, its nightclubs are popular destinations for area high school students. This town is reknown for Drug smuggling, human trafficking, gang violence, illegal border crossing, murder, and the world reknown BOYS TOWN. Boys town is a giant, half mile circle of night clubs, most known and frequented for its' houses of prostitution, both male and female.
Awarded city status in July 1958, it serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The city is located on a mesa, characterzied by a flat and sandy terrain.
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