Rio Rico Arizona
Rio Rico is a town located 57 miles south of Tucson and 12 miles north of Mexico in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It is a planned community founded in 1969. The town with an area of 39,000 acres rolls down from the Santa Rita Mountains through the San Cayetano Foothills westward to the Santa Cruz River. Rio Rico and the area surrounding it was once part of the Baca Float. The Baca Float is a tract of land, around 100,000 acres, granted by the U.S. Congress as a result of an early, unclear grant from the Spanish Government to the heirs of Luis Maria Baca. It is an area where Spanish and Indian families lived even before the American Revolution and where Arizona history began.
Rio Rico has a total population of 10,413 as of 2000 U.S. Census. The community continues to grow at a steady pace with the influx of tenants to the Rio Rico South Industrial Park.
