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Port Famine, Sonora

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Coordinates31°54′59″N 115°2′16″W / 31.91639°N 115.03778°W / 31.91639; -115.03778 [1]
Opened1854
Port Famine
Puerto Carestía
Port FaminePuerto Carestía is located in Mexico
Port FaminePuerto Carestía
Port Famine
Puerto Carestía
Location in Mexico
Location
CountryMexico
LocationColorado River Delta
Coordinates31°54′59″N 115°2′16″W / 31.91639°N 115.03778°W / 31.91639; -115.03778 [1]
Details
Opened1854
Closed1870s

Port Famine was a steamboat landing and woodyard, supplying wood to the steamboats on the lower Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, from the 1854 to the late 1870s.

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