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Submitted by ivanjohnson on Wednesday, 24 February 2016  Page Views: 2931

Rock ArtSite Name: Patagonia Lake State Park Petroglyphs Alternative Name: Sonoita Creek State Natural Area
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Nogales  Nearest Village: Patagonia
Latitude: 31.499334N  Longitude: 110.853287W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Patagonia Lake State Park Petroglyphs
Patagonia Lake State Park Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Patagonia Lake State Park November 25 2011 Petroglyph on north side of the lake. Image copyright: LindaBrownAZ (Linda Brown), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Edited with info from blog: http://viani.us/2009/12/patagonia-lake-state-park-arizona/
(blog has photo too)

Petroglyphs on the northwest side of (man-made) Patagonia Lake are only accessible with a park representative. From photos posted online, at least some of the petroglyphs appear to be directly across the lake from the boat marina and slightly to the east, and perhaps about 500 - 1000 feet inland from the lake shore. The path meanders through a blend of mesquite, cottonwoods, and willows that borders the slow-flowing Sonoita Creek. The scramble up to the petroglyphs is relatively easy. One arrives near a pile of stark rock boulders, and is surprised by the quality and quantity of the petroglyphs.
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Coordinates posted for this site were arrived at by carefully comparing the petroglyph photo on the above website to the Google Maps Satellite View, so I think they are fairly close to being correct for that one petroglyph at least - likely close enough to find it. IJ.
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Edited from: http://azstateparks.com/Parks/PALA/science.html

Patagonia Lake/Sonoita Creek Cultural History

Native Americans in the Patagonia Lake/Sonoita Creek area consisted of the closely related Sobaipuri and Papago Indian tribes. The Sobaipuri and Papago Indian tribes were also closely related to the Pima Indians who lived in the Tucson area.

The Sobaipuri inhabited the main and tributary valleys of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro rivers. The Spanish established missions among them in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to which several visitas were attached. A visita was a community visited regularly by a priest from a nearby mission. In the mid- to late 1700s, the Apache began raiding the area south of Tucson causing the Sobaipuri to give up their homes and to merge with the Pima and Papago tribes.

The Papago inhabited territory mainly south of Tucson along the Santa Cruz River on into Sonora, Mexico. Papago means “bean eating people.” The Papago were mainly semi-sedentary farmers living in small villages, growing corn, beans, and squash. They supplemented agriculture with gathering of wild plants and hunting. Today, the Papago are known as the Tohono O'odham Indian tribe.

Sites in the Patagonia Lake/Sonoita Creek area consist of pictographs, petroglyphs, bedrock mortars, rock cairns, rock circles, and lithic scatters.

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Patagonia Lake State Park Petroglyphs
Patagonia Lake State Park Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Pictographs in the cave. Image copyright: Adventures with E&L (Erin), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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