Villa Hidalgo 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 the north-east of the
Mexican state of
Sonora.
Municipal seat
It was founded by the
Jesuit missionary
Marcos del Río Marcos may refer to:
People with the given name ''Marcos''
*Marcos (given name)
Sports
;Surnamed
* Dayton Marcos, Negro league baseball team from Dayton, Ohio (early twentieth-century)
* Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
* Nélson Marcos, Portugu ...
in 1644 as (San Ignacio de) Oputo. On 1 April 1967 the State Congress ordered that it change its name from Oputo to its current name in honor of Mexican patriot
Miguel Hidalgo
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican ...
.
Area
The municipal area is 951.17 km
2.
Population
The population was 1,986 inhabitants (2.05 inhab./km
2) in 2000.
Economy
The main economic activities are agriculture and cattle raising.
References
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External links
Villa Hidalgo, Sonora''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)''
{{Sonora
Municipalities of Sonora
1644 establishments in the Spanish Empire