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The Sierra Pinta or Sierra Pintas (coll. Spanish for ''"Painted Mountains"'') are a narrow remote block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about long located in southwestern Arizona in the arid northwestern Sonoran Desert, just north of the Pinacate Reserve of northern Sonora, Mexico. The mountains derive their name from visitor descriptions of its multicolored hues when viewed at sunrise and sunset. The north end of the range contains the peak called ''Point of the Pintas'' at , then Bean Pass; adjacent southward is the peak Isla Pinta, at , and Sunday Pass. The Sierra Pinta range is toward the southern end of the Mohawk Valley, which also borders the range on the east, and east to the Bryan Mountains. West of the Sierra Pintas is the Tule Desert, and south in northern Sonora is the El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar, the extensive and active volcanic and cinder cone field and preserve. The highest peak in the range is Pinta Benchmark at . An early noting of the existence of the Sierra Pinta Range was in the explorations of Anza.〔Herbert Eugene Bolton et al. 1966〕 == Roads and the region == West of the northwest end of the Sierra Pintas, the north-south ''"Christmas Pass Road"'' goes south from Interstate 8 and through Christmas Pass, adjacent to the Tule Desert, on the southeast end of the Cabeza Prieta Mountains (all to the southwest of the Sierra Pintas). The road terminates close by at the US-Mexico Border at an unimproved road called the ''El Camino del Diablo'', or Devil's Highway, which parallels the border. This is a no man's land region in the high point of summer heat.
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