San Miguel de Horcasitas is a town in
San Miguel de Horcasitas Municipality
San Miguel de Horcasitas Municipality is a municipality in Sonora in north-western Mexico.
The municipal area is 1,768.45 km2. and the population was 5,626 in 2000.
Neighboring municipalities are: Rayón Municipality, in the northeast, Ures Mu ...
, in the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...
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 ...
. San Miguel is located in the center of the state at an elevation of 518 meters.
The settlement was founded in 1749 as a military fort. The name is in honor of the Vicerey of New Spain, Don Juan Francisco de Güemez y Horcasitas, first Count of Revillagigedo, who was governing New Spain at the time. After 1777, the governor and captain general of the provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa had his residence here.
In 1814 it became a town (ayuntamiento), one of the first in the state.
The economy is based on cattle raising and
subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...
.
External links
San Miguel de Horcasitas, Sonora''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)''
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Populated places in Sonora