The Sun is said to shine during about 90% of the daylight hours, making Yuma one of the sunniest places in the world. The city receives the most recorded mean sunshine of anywhere on Earth.
Yuma contains the historical Yuma Territorial Prison. The prison opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909 and is open for tours. The Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park, and a historic downtown area are major tourist spots.
Somerton was established in 1898 and incorporated in 1918. Somerton’s economy is based on agriculture, medical services, and tourism. Somerton has an annual Tamale Festival that benefits students from the area who will be attending Arizona State University. More than 20,000 visitors attend the festival each year.
San Luis, founded in 1930, supports the Yuma County local economy with retail trade and services, agriculture, manufacturing and light industry located on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. San Luis is an excellent site for labor-intensive manufacturing and assembly plants.
Yuma County communities always embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity and has many positive-minded and inspiring people as well as historic business-friendly communities.
Yuma and Yuma County residents including San Luis and Somerton are rolling out the best “Welcome to Yuma County” welcome mat to new entrepreneurs, new startups, business founders, new residents and more value-added owner-created business startups.
Business startups in retail sales, clothing, fashion, music, beauty, healthcare, legal, medical services, information technology, restaurants, online sales, cleaning services, beauty salons, barber shops, education technology, and construction are always in demand in a local growing communities like Yuma County communities. Shop Local! Buy Local!