Huachinera
Sign in to saveHuachinera is the municipal seat of Huachinera Municipality in the northeast of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is , with a population of 1,147 registered in 2000.
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- Mexico
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- Huachinera Municipality
- Population
- 810
- Elevation
- 1120
- Capital of
- Huachinera Municipality
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Huachinera is the municipal seat of Huachinera Municipality in the northeast of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is , with a population of 1,147 registered in 2000.
It was founded as Juan Evangelista de Huachinera in 1645 by the Spanish missionary Cristóbal García. The land now occupied by the municipality was once the home of the Ópata Indians. ==Geography== The land is mainly mountainous, and the main settlement lies at an elevation of . Peaks reach the height of . The average annual temperature is and the average annual rainfall is .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huachinera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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