Sulfur Mine 'El Apache' | |
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| Located about 5 miles west of Bahia Santa Maria along the
old road to Puertecitos. Operations were abandoned over 50 years ago. The ore crusher was located here. |
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| Lots of sulfur is still piled and laying through-out the two mile long valley. |
Apache Tears | |
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| About two miles south of the sulfur mine and just west of
the old Puertecitos road, obsedian fragments called 'Apache Tears' can be found laying about. Obsedian is a volcanic 'glass' used by Indians to make arrow and spear heads. |
Caņada el Parral (Azufre Wash) | |
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| Inside the little canyon of Parral are various cactus
including the cardon. SCORE has used this passage to race through and called it Azufre Wash. It offers a nice short cut to Valle Chico and the bigger canyons of the Sierra San Pedro Martir. |
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| Geologic pressures curve these layers of rock. |
1978 | |
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| My friend Jim Todd at the same site when we first drove through Parral almost 30 years ago! |
