Lochiel

Lochiel is a populated place and former border crossing in southern Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 25 miles east of Nogales, and is largely abandoned. The townsite lies in the south-western part of the San Rafael Valley on Washington Gulch, about 1.5 miles west of the Santa Cruz River. It was first settled in the late 1870s and was mostly abandoned by 1986. The settlement served the ranches of the San Rafael Valley and the mining towns of Washington Camp and Duquesne, in the Patagonia Mountains about five miles to the north-west up Washington Gulch.

Where it is

Lochiel is a historic site near Patagonia, in Santa Cruz County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Lochiel, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

• Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
• Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates

Record last verified 2026-08-12.