Plutarco Elías Calles (named for General

Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles (25 September 1877 – 19 October 1945) was a general in the Mexican Revolution and a Sonoran politician, serving as President of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. The 1924 Calles presidential campaign was the first populist ...

) 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 northwest of the

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. Its municipal seat and main urban center is

Sonoyta Sonoyta, Sonora is a town in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. It stands on the U.S.-Mexico border, facing Lukeville, Arizona, in the United States. It is the municipal seat of the municipality of Plutarco Elías Calles. Demographics Accor ...

, on the United States border opposite Lukeville,

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Area and population

The municipal area is 4,121.15 km². The municipal population counted in 2015 was 16,931. The population of Sonoyta, the main settlement and municipal seat was 12,849. It is located at an elevation of 406 meters. Most of the population lives in the north, as the south is an inhospitable desert. The only other locality with a population of over 1,000 inhabitants is called Desierto de Sonora, just east-southeast of Sonoyta. Its population was 1,188 in the 2010 census.

Neighboring municipalities

Neighboring municipalities are

Caborca Caborca is the municipal seat of the Caborca Municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora. The city has a population of 67,604, while the municipal population was 89,122 as of 2020. Municipal boundaries are with Pima County, Arizona, in the Unite ...

to the east and

Puerto Peñasco Puerto Peñasco ( ood, Geʼe Ṣuidagĭ) is a small city located in Puerto Peñasco Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora, from the border with the U.S. state of Arizona. According to the 2020 census, it has a population o ...

to the east, south and west. The municipality borders

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and Yuma County,

, in the

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to the north.

Geography

The north of the municipality is semi-desert with some hills. The south is part of the

Gran Desierto de Altar The Gran Desierto de Altar is one of the major sub-ecoregions of the Sonoran Desert, located in the Sonora, State of Sonora, in northwest Mexico. It includes the only active Erg (landform), erg dune region in North America. The desert extends acro ...

, one of the driest and most inhospitable places in the Western Hemisphere.

Economic activity

Agriculture is mainly irrigated by pumping from wells. Main crops are garden vegetables, alfalfa, beans, corn, cotton, and the production of fodder for the cattle industry, which is also important

Industry consists of plants transforming cotton and packing houses for vegetables. There is also a small cheese factory

References

Sources

Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

INEGI

External links

General Plutarco Elías Calles (Sonoyta), Sonora, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official Website of General Plutarco Elías Calles (Sonoyta), Sonora, Sonora)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Plutarco Elias Calles Municipality Municipalities of Sonora