Tehueco, is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
in
El Fuerte Municipality
Municipality of El Fuerte is a municipality in Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. Its seat is El Fuerte
El Fuerte (Spanish: "The Fort") may refer to:
* El Fuerte de Samaipata, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bolivia
* El Fuerte, Sinaloa, a city of ...
, in the State of
Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities and ...
. It was named for the fierce Tehueco, one of the
Native American
Native Americans or Native American may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North and South America and their descendants
* Native Americans in the United States
* Indigenous peoples in Cana ...
people, who resisted the Spaniard conquest of Sinaloa.
Tehueco is the seat of the Tehueco Sindicatura one of seven sindicaturas that El Fuerte Municipality is subdivided into. The town of Tehueco has 859 inhabitants. It lies at an elevation 60 meters above sea level.
The town is located along the
Fuerte River
The Fuerte River is a river in the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico. It flows from headwaters in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Pacific Ocean in the Gulf of California.
Course
It begins at the junction of the Rio Verde (also called ...
, a little above its confluence with one of its major tributaries, the
Rio Cuchujaqui Rio Cuchujaqui, Arroyo Cuchujaqui or Arroyo de Alamos, is a tributary river of the Fuerte River, in the Álamos Municipality of Sonora and in El Fuerte Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico. It has its source in the Sierra de Álamos a range in the Sierra ...
.
N 26 17' 22" W 108 45' 49"
from mapper.acme.com accessed October 18, 2018
References
Populated places in Sinaloa
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