Atil (also Átil) is a small town in

Atil Municipality Atil (municipality) is a municipality in Sonora in north-western Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States ...

in the northwest of the

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Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...

. The total area is 400.43 km² and the population of the municipality was 734 in 2005, of whom 699 lived in the municipal seat (2000). Neighboring municipalities are

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, and

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. It was founded in 1751 by the

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missionary

Jacobo Sedelmayer Jacobo Sedelmayr (1702 – 1779) was a Jesuit missionary in New Spain, known for his explorations of the Pimería Alta. Biography Sedelmayr was born in Bavaria in 1702, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1722. He embarked from El Puerto de San ...

as a mission with the name of Atil. The first inhabitants were Pima Alto or Nebome Indians, who before conversion had led a nomadic or semi-nomadic life. Atil is one of the smallest municipalities in the state. It is said that its name means "Arrow Point", in the Pima language. The terrain is desert and mostly flat. Summer temperatures average 25.6 °C but daytime extremes are frequently above 40 °C. The winter average is 12.8 °C. There is one tarmacked road crossing the municipality linking

with

. There are several dirt roads crossing the desert. The economy is based on agriculture with lands irrigated by the Cuautémoc Reservoir located in the north of the municipality. There is also cattle raising.

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Enciclopedia de los Municipios de MexicoInstituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia, e Informática (INEGI)

External links

Atil, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official WebSite of Atil, Sonora)''

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