The old mining town of Aduana is worth a visit. Once home to 20,000, Adiana now houses about 400 full-time residents. A few kilometers away from Alamos, Aduana features a church dating from 1630: the church houses a “miracle cactus,” growing from one of the walls, which...
Alamos is popular among birders due to its location: it borders the world’s northernmost tropical deciduous forest to the south and the Sonora desert to the north. It’s also not far (about an hour and a half) from the Sea of Cortés, where several species of marine birds can be spotted. This...