Trincheras is a town in

Trincheras Municipality Trincheras Municipality is a municipality in Sonora 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 St ...

, in the north-west of the

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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 ...

. It was founded in 1775 by

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. The municipal area is 3,764.26 km². and the population in 2000 was 1,788. The main economic activities are cattle raising (21,000 head in 2000) and subsistence farming.

American Indian architecture

Trincheras was named for El Cerro de Trincheras, a nearby archaeological site. This site is also the namesake of a distinctive type of archaeological site found in the desert basins of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Remains of hillside terraces and walls reminded early explorers of ''trincheras,'' the Spanish term for entrenchments or fortifications.What is a Trincheras Site? - Online Exhibit - ''In Flight: Adriel Heisey's Images of Trincheras Archaeology''
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External links

Trincheras, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official Website of Trincheras, Sonora)''

''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)'' Trincheras at Cerro De Trincheras

{{Sonora Populated places in Sonora Dwellings of the Pueblo peoples