San Francisco de Borja is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and seat of the
municipality of San Francisco de Borja, in the northern
Mexican state of
Chihuahua. As of 2010, the town of San Francisco de Borja had a population of 1,157,
up from 1,142 as of 2005.
San Francisco de Borja was founded as a Jesuit mission in the 1640s to the
Tarahumara. The Tarahumara destroyed it in war with the Spanish in 1648, but it was later rebuilt.
[Edward H. Spicer, ''Cycles of Conquest'' (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962) p. 30]
References
Populated places in Chihuahua (state)
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