Soyopa Municipality is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
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 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; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
The municipal area is 846.33 km
2. and the population was 1,649 in 2000.
Neighboring municipalities are:
*Northeast:
Bacanora
:''Other uses: the town of Bacanora, Sonora.''
Bacanora is an agave-derived liquor made in the Mexican state of Sonora.
The distillation of Bacanora was illegal until 1992, being moonshine, bootlegged by ''vinateros'' for many generations. Since ...
*South:
Onavas
*Southwest:
San Javier
*West:
La Colorada
*Northwest:
Villa Pesqueira
Villa Pesqueira Municipality is a town, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the central region of the Mexican state of Sonora.
Municipal seat
It was founded in 1629 by the missionary Martín de Azpilcueta as (San José de) Mátap ...
References
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Municipalities of Sonora