Patagonia Mountains the Sonoran town of San Lazaro. The old mining camps and ghost towns of Mowry, Washington Camp, Harshaw, and Duquesne are located in the Patagonia Mountains. Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are in the valley to the southwest of the mountain range. The San Rafael Valley and Canelo Hills are to the east of the Patagonia Mountains. The connected Santa Rita, Patagonia, and Sierra San Antonio ranges are part of the Madrean Sky Islands ecoregion, the sky island mountain ranges region on the north of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the major cordillera and mountain ecoregion of central-western and northwestern Mexico.
Rayan (Persian given name) Rayan (Persian given name) Rayan ( ), also spelled Ryan, is an Iranian given name of Persian origin. It is primarily a male given name that means "smart", "wise" or "thinker". Because of its similarity to the English given name Ryan, Rayan is popular in the Iranian diaspora, especially among Iranian Americans. As of 2016, the name Rayan ranks 3,315th among the most used names. In Persian, the term "rāyān" () means "wise". It derives from the root "rāy" (), meaning "wisdom", which comes from Middle Persian "raynitan" and occurs in Avestan as "raonat". The word "rāyāne" (), receiving the