Vícam
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Vícam is a town in the Mexican state of Sonora located in the municipal of Guaymas. It is one of the main settlements of the Yaqui people. Historically, the Yaqui also ranged through what is now the American Southwest, and there is a federally recognized tribe in the United States state of Arizona.
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Vícam is a town in the Mexican state of Sonora located in the municipal of Guaymas. It is one of the main settlements of the Yaqui people. Historically, the Yaqui also ranged through what is now the American Southwest, and there is a federally recognized tribe in the United States state of Arizona.
==History== Vícam is one of the eight mission villages in which the Yaqui were settled in the early seventeenth century by Spanish Jesuit missionaries, along with , , Bácum, Cócorit, , Benem, and Rahum. Today it is the second largest settlement in the municipality of Guaymas, and one of the main Yaqui settlements. Vícam hosted the Meeting of the Indigenous People of the Americas from October 11–14, 2007.
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