La Colorada is a small town in
La Colorada Municipality in the
Mexican
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state of
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 ...
. In 2005, the population of the municipality was 1,754, with 288 living in the municipal seat.
History
The now-municipality was founded by Spanish Jesuit missionaries at some point between 1740 and 1743. Formerly known as Minas Prietas, La Colorada became a municipality on June 28, 1934. As an important
mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...
camp in Mexico, La Colorada boasted a population that topped 5,604 in 1895. The municipality is situated 45 km (29 mi) southeast of
Hermosillo
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city located in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo Municipality, Her ...
.
Other small towns located within the municipality include
Tecorípa,
Cobachi,
Estación Torres Estación Torres is a small town in the Mexican state of Sonora. At the turn of the twentieth century, Estación Torres and nearby Minas Prietas formed the "greatest mining camp in northwest Mexico." The town developed rapidly due to foreign inve ...
, and
San José de Pimas.
Main economic activities in La Colorada is Mining. Mina La Colorada is the main company which extracts from earth Gold, Copper and Zinc. Another mine nearby La Colorada extracts graphite to be used for domestic and industrial purposes.
References
External links
La Colorada, Ayuntamiento Digital''(Official Website of La Colorada, Sonora)''
Populated places in Sonora
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