Sonora

Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital (and largest) city of which is Hermosillo, located in the center of the state. Other large cities include Ciudad Obregón, Nogales (on the Mexico-United States border), San Luis Río Colorado, and Navojoa.

Italian Jesuit missionary

Mexican ethnic group

explorer, missionary (1738-1781)

province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain

Bacanora is an agave-derived liquor made in the Mexican state of Sonora.