Mexican Federal Highway 15

Federal Highway 15 shield
Federal Highway 15
Carretera federal 15
Mexico 15 International Highway
Mexico-Nogales Highway
Route information
Maintained by Secretariat of Communications and Transportation
Length2,363.51 km[1][2][3][4][5] (1,468.62 mi)
Major junctions
South end Fed. 15D / Fed. 57D and Carretera Toluca in Mexico City
Major intersections
North end BL 19 at Nogales Port of Entry, Nogales, Arizona, United States of America
Location
CountryMexico
StatesMexico City, State of Mexico, Michoacán, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora
Highway system
Fed. 14D Fed. 15D

Federal Highway 15 (Spanish: Carretera Federal 15, Fed. 15 ) is Mexico 15 International Highway or Mexico-Nogales Highway, is a primary north–south highway, and is a free part of the federal highways corridors (Spanish: corredores carreteros federales) of Mexico. The highway begins in the north at the Mexico–United States border at the Nogales Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora, and terminates to the south in Mexico City.

Fed. 15 from Nogales to Mazatlán runs parallel to Fed. 15D, a tolled (cuota) part of the federal highways corridors (los corredores carreteros federales); the portion of this northern stretch from the town of Eldorado southward within the Sinaloa is a limited-access highway.[6] North of the U.S.-Mexico border, the highway continues to the north from the Port of Entry, as I-19 Business.

A rare button-copy Mexico 15 guide sign at the highway's northern terminus. Likely provided by the Arizona Department of Transportation in the 1970s, this sign formerly greeted southbound motorists after crossing into Mexico through the Nogales-Grand Avenue Port of Entry.

The highway is the southern terminus of the CANAMEX Corridor,[citation needed] a trade corridor that stretches from Mexico north across the United States to the Canadian province of Alberta.

  1. ^ "Datos Viales de Jalisco" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 7, 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  2. ^ "Datos Viales de México" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  3. ^ "Datos Viales de Michoacán" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 9, 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  4. ^ "Datos Viales de Sinaloa" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 1, 5, 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  5. ^ "Datos Viales de Sonora" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 8, 12, 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  6. ^ "Rand McNally Road Atlas", Rand McNally & Company, 1998, p. 120