Municipio Cajeme

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Cajeme
location
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Sonora
Seat Ciudad Obregón
surface 4884 km²
Residents 409,310 (2010)
density 83.8 inhabitants per km²
founding November 29, 1927error
Website www.cajeme.gob.mx
INEGI no. 26018
politics
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 leader Cajeme around 1887

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 038,969
Pueblo Yaqui 014,234
Marte R. Gomez 008,700
Cócorit 007,752
Providencia 004,501
Quetchehueca 003,001
Cuauhtémoc 002,629
Antonio Rosales 002,287
Allende 001,810
Estación Corral 001,788

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.

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