Guazapares is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern

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. The municipal seat lies at Témoris. The municipality covers an area of 2,145.8 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,998, up from 8,010 as of 2005. The municipality had 492 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Témoris (2,053), classified as rural.

History

As a pueblo, Guazapares was home to the Guazapare people,Also transcribed as Guacapane, Guacapare, Guarapare, Guasapare, Guasapari, Guaspare, Guazapari, or Gucapari a tribal group who spoke a dialect of the Tarahumara language. After

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missionaries Julio Pascual and Manuel Martinez were killed in a 1632 uprising, led a punitive expedition against native groups including the Guazapare, killing about 800 natives. The surviving Guazapare were reduced into the

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