Municipio Cajeme
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Sonora | |
Seat | Ciudad Obregón | |
surface | 4884 km² | |
Residents | 409,310 (2010) | |
density | 83.8 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | November 29, 1927 | |
Website | www.cajeme.gob.mx | |
INEGI no. | 26018 | |
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Presidente municipal | Faustino Félix Chavez |
Coordinates: 27 ° 30 ′ N , 109 ° 54 ′ W
The Municipio Cajeme is an administrative district in the southern part of the Mexican state of Sonora . The district was named after José María Leyva Cajeme , a former leader of the Yaqui . The main town is Ciudad Obregón . According to the census, the municipality has a population of 409,310 people, its area amounts to 4884 km².
geography
The municipality of Cajeme is located at altitudes of up to 1100 m , about a third each in the physiographic provinces of the Sierra Madre Occidental , the Pacific coastal plains and the flatlands of Sonora. Almost the entire municipality drains via the Río Yaqui .
Cajeme borders the Municipios Guaymas , Suaqui Grande , Onavas , Rosario de Tesopaco , Quiriego , Navojoa , Etchojoa , Benito Juárez and Bácum and to the south on the Gulf of California .
history
The Yaqui lived in the region from around 1100 to 1533 . Diego de Guzmán came to the region with the Spanish army in 1533 to conquer it, but the Yaqui were victorious. The first European residents came to Plano Oriente to work on the irrigation system for the Richardson company. The Sudpacífico train touched the city of Cajeme. On July 28, 1928, Ciudad Obregón, previously called Cajeme, was declared the capital.
Places and population
According to the 2010 census, the municipality comprises 982 inhabited localidades , eight of which were classified as urban. Three places had over 10,000, another fourteen at least 1,000 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Ciudad Obregón | 298,625 |
Esperanza | 38,969 |
Pueblo Yaqui | 14,234 |
Marte R. Gomez | 8,700 |
Cócorit | 7,752 |
Providencia | 4,501 |
Quetchehueca | 3,001 |
Cuauhtémoc | 2,629 |
Antonio Rosales | 2,287 |
Allende | 1,810 |
Estación Corral | 1,788 |
Of the 409,310 inhabitants counted in 2010, 206,610 were women (50.48%); the total population lived in a total of 111,543 inhabited housing units. 2607 people over 5 years of age were speakers of indigenous languages . 10,004 people lived in extreme poverty.
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Cajeme (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Cajeme (Spanish; PDF)