Guachochi is a

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in the south-western portion of the

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. The city of Guachochi serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. As of 2010, the city of Guachochi had a population of 14,513, up from 12,385 in 2005.

Municipality

Guachochi is one of the 67

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, in northern

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. The municipal seat lies at Guachochi. The municipality covers an area of 4,340.35 km². It was created by the State Congress on 31 December 1962, with its excision from the municipality of Batopilas. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 49,689, up from 45,881 as of 2005. As of 2010, the city of Guachochi had a population of 14,513. Other than the city of Guachochi, the municipality had 1,508 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Samachique (1,241), classified as rural. The municipality has 1,134 localities. The largest are:

History

The settlement was founded by

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missionaries in the mid-18th century. In 1952 Guachochi, then only a small village, was chosen as the location of one of the first two Indigenous Centres of the

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(INI). It is the seat of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarahumara The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarahumara ( la, Dioecesis Tarahumarensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua. It was erected as a mission sui juris in 1950 and was elevated, first to a vicariate apostolic in 1958, then to a d ...

. The area around Guachochi is rich in history, and old Jesuit missions are kept in several communities. Guachochi was established in the middle of the 18th century as part of a mission, whose name was Guachochi. The original mission buildings no longer exist. Tónachi, Yoquivo, the temple of Our Lady of Loreto of Yoquivo, and the temple of Our Lady of Pilar de Norogachi, in Norogachi are places where old Jesuit buildings are still conserved.

Media

Guachochi is home to

XETAR-AM XETAR-AM (''La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara'' – "The Voice of the Sierra Tarahumara") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Tarahumara and Northern Tepehuán from Guachochi, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. ...

, a government-run community radio station that broadcasts to the local area in

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Rarámuri The Rarámuri or Tarahumara is a group of indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. They are renowned for their long-distance running ability. Originally, inhabitants of much of Chihuahua, the Rarámuri re ...

and Tepehuano.

References

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