Guadalupe’s motto is “where three cultures flourish,” for the Yaqui, the Mexican families and the descendants of the first farmers who made the town. This map prints Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, the Guadalupe Branch Library, Frank Elementary School and the South Mountain Community College Guadalupe Center, with Guadalupe Wash and Pima Wash running through.
Guadalupe is a town in Maricopa County, with Phoenix on its west side and Tempe on the north, east and south.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the landscape comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The whole town covers just 0.8 square miles, 11 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix, and 5,322 people lived here at the 2020 census.
A Yaqui town
The Yaqui people, also known as Yoeme, founded Guadalupe around 1900, when they fled their homeland in Sonora to escape oppression under the Mexican government of Porfirio Díaz. The Yaqui homeland lies along the Yaqui River, Yoem Vatwe, in western Sonora, and Yaqui families have lived north to the Gila River since ancient times. The refugees who came north set up Yaqui neighborhoods at Pascua and Barrio Libre in Tucson, at Marana, and at Guadalupe and Scottsdale near Phoenix. Ever since its founding Guadalupe has been a center of Yaqui culture, and it’s home to many religious festivals. The town cemetery dates to 1904 and stood in the original townsite. Tempe later annexed the land around it, so it’s officially in Tempe now, but the Guadalupe Clerk’s Office still takes care of it.
The Yaqui brought their Lent and Easter ceremonies with them, among them deer dances, Pascuala dances and other traditions that began in Mexico in the early 1600s. Every Easter season the Yaqui ceremonial rites are held in the town plaza. They join traditional Native beliefs with Catholic teaching, and they’re a historic and sacred obligation for the people who take part, going back roughly 300 years. They aren’t performed for tourists, but respectful visitors are welcome to watch. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s page calls the deer dancer of the Easter ceremonies the most enduring symbol of the Yaquis in America.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Riviera Dr, E Carson Rd, Cartier Dr, W Fremont Dr, E Minton Dr, W Dunbar Dr, E Baseline Rd, E Beverly Rd, W Vineyard Rd, E Francisco Dr, W Garden Dr, S Wendler Dr.
More street names, A to Z
Apollo Ave, Arizona Grand Pkwy, Arizona Mills, Bella Vis, Canyon Rd, Carmen St, Corral Rd, E Cll Iglesia, E Guadalupe Rd, E Mineral Rd, E Pearce Rd, Highline Canal, Manor St, Mitchell Dr, S Arizona Mills Cir, S Ave del Yaqui, S Cll Azteca, S Harl Ave, Vineyard Rd, W Balson Dr, W Baseline Rd, W Bell de Mar Dr, W Colgate Dr, W Cornell Dr, W Diamond Dr, Western Ct, W Fordham Dr, W Guadalupe Rd, W Lodge Dr, W Magdalena Dr, W Orion St, W Paseo Way, W Redfield Rd, W Strahan Dr, W Todd Dr, W Tulane Dr, W Vaughn St, W Westchester Ave.
Socorro Hernandez-Bernasconi
Socorro Hernandez-Bernasconi was born in Guadalupe in 1941 and grew up here. She was one of the first people from Guadalupe to graduate from college, and the first Mexican-American woman to work as a counselor in the Tempe school district. Teaching in Tempe, she saw that many students whose first language was Spanish or Yaqui had been wrongly placed in special education classes; they couldn’t pass tests given in English. In 1971 she sued the district for discrimination by race and language, and she won. The court’s ruling set up the “Guadalupe Regulations,” which require that students be tested in their functional language. Later she founded a community group that promotes gun exchanges and gives the collected guns to be made into tools or artwork. In 2025 she was inducted into the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame, and Guadalupe declared April 24 Socorro Hernandez-Bernasconi Day.
Late in the year the town celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Día de los Muertos, and from September 15 to October 15 it marks National Hispanic Heritage Month. Each April there’s a car show in the town plaza. Most people here work elsewhere in the Phoenix area, and the town is mostly homes. The Guadalupe Branch Library, Frank Elementary School and the South Mountain Community College Guadalupe Center have their places on the sheet, and Pima Wash gives the land its shape. El Mercado de Guadalupe has its place on the sheet too.
This Guadalupe map is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Guadalupe home, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Guadalupe map.
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