Obregón's first experience in the military was supporting pro-Madero forces under Victoriano Huerta ( 1850 – 1916 ) against Orozco's rebellion.

In November 1913, Obregón's forces captured Culiacán, thus securing the supremacy of the Constitutional Army in the entire area of Northwestern Mexico under Obregón's command.

Obregón's forces easily defeated Zapatista forces at Puebla in early 1915.

In a decisive battle at Ocotlán, Jalisco, Obregón's forces crushed the rebel forces.

On May 19, 1914, Obregón's forces sentenced Bishop Andres Segura and other clerical officials to jail for eight years because of their participation in a revolt.

Villa had committed all his men to the attack and was unable to exploit any area of weakness or to protect his flanks which were enveloped by Obregón's cavalry.

Francisco Obregón died in 1880, the year of Álvaro Obregón's birth, leaving Álvaro to be raised in poverty by his mother and his older sisters Cenobia, María, and Rosa.

Obregón's successor, Emilio Portes Gil – a forced ally of Calles due to the upheaval created by Obregón's assassination – fired CROM officials from their government posts and threw the government's support to rival union groups, such as the Confederación General de Trabajadores, ( CGT ), a nominally anarchist group, and the Confederación Sindical Unitaria de México, a group associated with the Mexican Communist Party ( PCM ).

* May 19 – Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City.

In 1924, Obregón's hand-picked successor, Plutarco Elías Calles, was elected as president, and although Obregón ostensibly retired to Sonora, he remained influential under Calles.

Adolfo de la Huerta ( 1881 – 1955 ), the former Governor of Sonora under whose banner Obregón purportedly fought in 1920, and who served as Obregón's Finance Minister before launching a rebellion in 1923.

Two of Obregón's oldest allies, General Arnulfo R. Gómez and General Francisco " Pancho " Serrano, opposed his re-election.

Obregón's presidency was the first stable presidency since the Revolution began in 1910.

In 1923 – 24, Obregón's finance minister, Adolfo de la Huerta, launched a rebellion ; Obregón return to the battlefield to crush the rebellion.

At the urging of the Sonorans ( the most powerful group in Carranza's coalition following Obregón's victories in the Northwest ), Carranza downgraded Ángeles to the position of Sub-Secretary of War.

Upon Obregón's arrival in Teoloyucan, Mexico State, it was clear that Huerta was defeated, and, on 11 August, on the mudguard of a car, Obregón signed the treaties that ended the Huerta regime.

Villa made a last attempt to stop Obregón's army in Aguascalientes on 10 July, but without success.

At Carranza's behest, the Senate stripped Obregón of his military rank, a move which only increased Obregón's popularity.

Obregón's election as president essentially signaled the end of the violence of the Mexican Revolution.

The death of Lucio Blanco in 1922 and the assassination of Pancho Villa in 1923 would eliminate the last remaining obvious challenges to Obregón's regime.

As such, Obregón's time as president saw the beginning of the art movement of Mexican muralism, with artists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Roberto Montenegro invited to create murals expressive of the spirit of the Mexican Revolution on the walls of public buildings throughout Mexico.

In spite of Obregón's moderate approach, his presidency saw the beginnings of clashes between Catholics and supporters of the Mexican Revolution.

As president, one of Obregón's top priorities was securing U. S. diplomatic recognition of his regime.

Over half of the army joined de la Huerta's rebellion, with many of Obregón's former comrades in arms now turning on him.

The conspirators drafted Adolfo de la Huerta, then-Minister of Finance, to run for president against Plutarco Elias Calles, Obregón's chosen successor.

Harassment operations soon begin against the Confederate forces in Guaymas and the Sonoran coast.

* Hia C-eḍ O ' odham (" Sand Dune People ", also known by neighboring O ' odham as Hia Tadk Ku: mdam-" Sand Root Crushers ", commonly known as Sand Papagos or Sand Pimas, lived west and southwest of the Tohono O ' odham in the Gran Desierto de Altar of the Sonoran Desert between the Ajo Range, the Gila River, the Colorado River and the Gulf of California south into northwestern Sonora, Mexico, were known to the Tohono O ' odham as U ' uva: k or U ' uv Oopad, named after the Tinajas Altas Mountains )

In order to construct irrigation projects in the lowlands below the valleys, irrigation projects were never completed in the Sonoran hills ; instead, the Yaqui River was dammed in the 1930s.

The party traversed the continent as far as present-day southeastern Arizona, and through the Sonoran Desert to the region of Sinaloa in New Spain ( present-day Mexico ), where they were reunited with countrymen.

Like their father Luis Tanori before them, they became respected militia chieftains among their peoples, and were commissioned brigadier generals in the French Army by Emperor Maximilian during the Franco-Mexican War as leaders of the Sonoran Indian troops, being that Maximillian made a pact with the indigenous nations of Sonora, which consisted of allowing Sonora independent statehood in the form of an indigenous confederation known as the Confederación India de Sonora if France won the war.

They and other captured indigenous Sonoran militia leaders that had served under Maximillian were subsequently executed by firing squad by for what was regarded by the defending and triumphant Mexican nationalists as treason against the Mexican Republic.

Five new colors were added, as well, including Moonstone Silver, Frost White Pearl, Sonoran Red, Mineral Gray, and Espresso Brown.

The mission was founded in 1692 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founder of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert chain, who often visited and preached in the area.

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

It is currently the Sonoran Desert's second most economically valuable native plant ( overshadowed only by the Washingtonia palms used in horticulture ).

According to the U. S. National Park Service Website, Hohokam is a Pima ( O ' odham ) word used by archaeologists to identify a group of people who lived in the Sonoran Desert of North America.

Pimería Alta was the site of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert established by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The Colorado River Delta was once an ecological hotspot within the Sonoran desert, fueled by the flow of fresh water through the Colorado river in this otherwise dry area, but the delta has been greatly reduced in extent due to the damming and use of the river upstream.

* An Overview of the Sonoran Desert, by William G. McGinnies

A Sonoran delegation headed by Adolfo de la Huerta traveled to Monclova to meet with the Governor of Coahuila, Venustiano Carranza.

The Sonoran government signed on to Carranza's Plan of Guadalupe, by which Carranza became " primer jefe " of the newly-proclaimed Constitutional Army.

In some warm climates, such as the subtropical savanna and Sonoran Deserts or in the drier Mediterranean climates, the growing season is limited by the availability of water, with little growth in the dry season.

There have been around 5, 000 migrant deaths along the Mexico-U. S. border in the last thirteen years, according to a document created by the Human Rights National Commission of Mexico, also signed by the American Civil Liberties Union Between 43 and 61 people died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert during that same time period ; three times that of the same period the previous year.

Two large swine production companies that export mainly to the USA, Germany and Japan, a recycled containerboard mill and box factory privately owned by Sonoran investors, as well as one brewery belonging to the FEMSA group ( recently acquired from Heineken ), are among the main industries in Navojoa.

On the contrary, those indigenous Sonoran peoples affected by marauding bands of Chiricahua Apaches based in the general area of northeastern Sonora and southeastern Arizona territory often united to fight them off.

The sky islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts.

: See also: List of plants by common name ( Sonoran Desert )

* List of plants by common name ( Sonoran Desert )

They went across the Sonoran desert to California from Mexico by swinging south of the Gila River to avoid Apache attacks until they hit the Colorado River at the Yuma Crossing — about the only way across the Colorado River.