Villa Pesqueira Municipality is a town, and the surrounding
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 ...
of the same name, in the central region of 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 ...
of
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 ...
.
Municipal seat
It was founded in 1629 by the missionary
Martín de Azpilcueta
Martín de Azpilcueta (Azpilkueta in Basque) (13 December 1491 – 1 June 1586), or Doctor Navarrus, was an important Spanish canonist and theologian in his time, and an early economist who independently formulated the quantity theory of mone ...
as (San José de) Mátapa. The State Congress ordered the change to its current name, at the inhabitants' request, on 11 February 1867.
Creation
The municipality was created on 11 December 1930, with the division of its territory from the adjacent municipality of
Ures Municipality
Ures is a small city and a Municipalities of Mexico, municipality in the Mexico, Mexican state of Sonora.
Area
It has an area of 2,618.56 square kilometers. This is 1.41% of the total area of the state, and 0.13 percent of the national area of Me ...
.
Area
The municipal area is 1,834.13 km
2.
Population
The population was 1,590, of whom 96% lived in the urban area.
Economy
The main economic activities are cattle raising (18,000 head in 2005), subsistence farming, and mining.
External links
Villa Pesqueira, Sonora''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)''
{{Sonora
Municipalities of Sonora