Puerto Penasco American Visitors To Mexico Urged To Use Caution In Wake Of Violence South Of Border By Associated Press/KNAU Staff • Nov 8, 2019 shutterstock.com An unusual string of violent events south of Arizona's border with Mexico has sparked travel warnings by American authorities. Mass Grave Near Rocky Point Mexico Yields 42 Bodies By Associated Press • Oct 30, 2019 (Sonora Attorney General's Office) A total of 42 bodies and skeletons have been pulled from a burial pit in the Mexican desert near the Gulf of California beach town of Puerto Penasco, known to U.S. tourists as Rocky Point.