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Agents with the Border Patrol's search, trauma and rescue team found a 5-year-old Mexican girl alone and crying in the rugged mountain terrain of Cochise County on Friday morning.

Candy Gabriela Barranco-Gonzalez, of the state of Mexico, Mexico, survived a frigid night in the Miller Peak area of the Huachuca Mountains southwest of Sierra Vista.

Officials said she became separated from her stepfather late Thursday evening during an attempt to illegally enter the country, Cochise County sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas said.

The girl appeared to be suffering from initial stages of hypothermia but other than that was in decent condition, Capas said. She was transported to the Sierra Vista Regional Health Care Center where she is now. Hospital officials early Friday afternoon declined to disclose the girl's condition.

The separation occurred at about 10 p.m. Thursday night when a Border Patrol agent encountered a group of 13 illegal entrants in the Miller Peak area, said Jesús Rodriguez, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

The people scattered, and the agent stopped nine of them, Capas said. About an hour later, a man identifying himself as the father of a young girl told the agent that she was with the guide, or coyote.

That spurred the Border Patrol to launch an extensive search of the area. At least two law-enforcement helicopters, along with a sheriff's Search and Rescue team and Border Patrol agents, led the search for the girl in an area about eight miles north of the Arizona-Mexico border, Capas said.

The Border Patrol called in off-duty agents to assist and received assistance from the Fry Fire District, U.S. Forest Service and Arizona Department of Public Safety, Rodriguez said. Officials feared Candy was alone in the wilderness when the smuggler was spotted without the girl.

Borstar agents, the Border Patrol's search, trauma and rescue team, discovered Candy about 9:50 a.m. Friday. They found the girl near a tree line of Miller Peaks after they heard her crying, Capas said.

It had been cold, with temperatures dipping down to about 20 degrees in the area where she was found, which sits at about 7,000 feet, Capas said.

Mexican Consulate officials were planning to pick up and take the girl to a social agency in Agua Prieta, Mexico, said Raúl Saavedra, deputy consul at the Mexican Consulate in Douglas. They have located her mother, Mercedes Barranco Gonzalez, 25, in Ciudad Juarez and are arranging for her to travel to Agua Prieta to meet with officials there.

Consulate officials have determined that the man who identified himself as Candy's father is actually her stepfather, Saavedra said. That man, a 25-year-old, was in Border Patrol custody Friday afternoon.

They are trying to find the biological father to determine whether he knew Barranco-Gonzalez was sending their daughter across the border with the stepfather, Saavedra said. Law requires that both parents authorize the departure of a child from their native country, he said.