Municipio Pitiquito
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Country | Mexico |
State | Sonora |
Seat | Pitiquito |
surface | 9,831.1 km² |
Residents | 9468 (2010) |
density | 0.96 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1914 |
INEGI no. | 26047 |
Coordinates: 30 ° 41 ′ N , 112 ° 3 ′ W
Pitiquito is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora . The municipality has 9468 inhabitants (2010 census, INEGI ) on 9,831.1 km². It is located in the northwest of Sonora and borders the Municipios Caborca , Altar , Trincheras , Benjamín Hill , Carbó and Hermosillo as well as the Gulf of California . The administrative seat and largest of the 125 inhabited places of the municipality is Pitiquito in the north of the municipality , the next larger villages are Puerto Libertad and Desemboque de los Seris .
history
Before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, Indian tribes lived in the side valleys of the Altar and Magdalena rivers, which are tributaries of the Asuncion. Pitiquito was originally a mission founded by the Jesuit priest Eusebio Francisco Kino by the name of Señor de Pitiquín . Pitiquito received parish status in 1914.
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Pitiquito (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Pitiquito (Spanish; PDF)