Puerto Penasco is a city and municipality located in the northwest of the state of Sonora about 100 km from the Arizona border. It is located on the small strip of land that joins the peninsula of Baja California with the rest of Mexico. The area is part of the Altar Desert, one of the driest and hottest of the larger Sonora Desert. Because of the lack of water, this area had no permanent settlements until the 1920s. In the 1930s and 1940s, the construction of a rail line connecting Baja to the rest of Mexico passed through here and allowed for the development of a permanent town.
Puerto Peñasco is often called Rocky Point in English, and has been nicknamed Arizonas beach as it is the coast closest to the major cities of Phoenix and Tucson, and many Arizonans spend weekends here. The city is known by two names, one in English and one in Spanish. In 1826, retired Lt. Robert William Hale Hardy of the British Royal Fleet was sailing in this area searching for pearls and precious metals. The oldest part of the town was founded between the edge of the sea and Ballena Hill.The CET-MAR Aquarium is a marine research center open to the public with displays of marine life such as turtles, octopus and numerous fish species.

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