Arivechi is a town in Arivechi Municipality in 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 is located in the east of Sonora at an elevation of . The settlement of San Javier de Arivechi was founded in 1627 by the

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missionary Pedro Méndez. The land had been occupied by the

Opata The Opata (written Ópata in Spanish, pronounced with stress on the first syllable: /ˈopata/) are three indigenous peoples of Mexico. Opata territory, the “Opatería” in Spanish, encompasses the mountainous northeast and central part of the ...

tribe, conceded in the mission system of the Rectorado de San Francisco de Borja together with the peoples of Pónida y Bacanora. Arivechi became a municipality in 1932. The area is crossed by the Sahuaripa River, which is a tributary of the

Yaqui River The Yaqui River (Río Yaqui in Spanish) (Hiak Vatwe in the Yaqui or Yoreme language) is a river in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico. It was formerly known as the Rio del Norte. Being the largest river system in the state of Sonora, th ...

. The economy is based on cattle raising and agriculture. Arivechi lies on tarmacked highway 117, which links Arivechi to

Agua Prieta Agua Prieta (English: ''Dark Water'', Opata: ''Bachicuy'') is a town in Agua Prieta Municipality in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Sonora. It stands on the Mexico–U.S. border, adjacent to the town of Douglas, Arizona. The mu ...

. The distance to the

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is .

Sources consulted

Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico

Inegi

External links

Arivechi, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official WebSite of Arivechi, Sonora)''
Photos of Arivechi

{{coord, 28, 56, N, 109, 11, W, display=title, region:MX_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in Sonora Populated places established in 1627