Trincheras is a town in Trincheras Municipality, in the north-west of the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate en ...

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 Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into 72 municipalities; the ...

. It was founded in 1775 by Bernardo de Urrea. 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