Bacerac is a town in

Bacerac Municipality Bacerac (municipality) is a Municipalities of Mexico State, municipality in Sonora in north-western Mexico. References

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in the

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

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 is situated in the northeast of the state and the municipality has boundaries with

Bavispe Municipality Bavispe (municipality) is a municipality in Sonora in north-western Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It ...

in the north, with

Huachinera Huachinera is the municipal seat of Huachinera Municipality in the northeast of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is , with a population of 1,147 registered in 2000. It was founded as Juan Evangelista de Huachinera in 1645 by the Spa ...

in the south, with the state of Chihuahua in the east, and with the municipalities of

Nacozari de García Nacozari de García is a small mining town surrounded by the Nacozari de García Municipality in the northeast of the Mexican state of Sonora. Geography The municipal seat had a population of 11,193 in 2000. It is located at an elevation of 1,0 ...

and Villa Hidalgo in the west. The municipal seat lies at an elevation of 1,432 meters above sea level. The area of the municipality is 1,275.8 km². and the total population was 1,342 in 2005. Most of the inhabitants lived in the municipal seat. The population has been diminishing since 1995 when it was 1,535. Causes are the lack of employment and the absence of middle-level schools for families to better educate their children

The territory once was 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 ...

Indians. In 1645, the

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missionary

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founded a settlement to which he gave the name of Santa María de Bacerac, which is derived from the

Opata language Ópata (also Tegüima, Teguima, Tehuima, Tehui, Eudeve, Eudeva, Heve, Dohema, Jova, Joval, Tonichi, Sonori and Ure; opt, Teguima) is either of two closely related Uto-Aztecan languages, ''Teguima'' and ''Eudeve'', spoken by the Opata people of n ...

and means "place where water is seen". Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy and the crops are destined to support the occupation of cattle raising, the herd consisting of approximately 10,000 head of cows.

Sources consulted

INEGIEnciclopedia de los Municipios de MexicoGobierno de Sonora: BaceracMap of Sonora

External sources

Bacerac, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official WebSite of Bacerac, Sonora)''
Statistics on BaceracMap of Bcae
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