Santa Ana is a small city and municipal seat of
Santa Ana Municipality in the
Mexican state
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of
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de 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 divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...
. It is located north of the state capital
Hermosillo
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the state's ...
and south of
Nogales on the
United States
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border. The town had a 2005 census population of 10,593 inhabitants
History
This settlement originated when the
Pimas (indigenous people in northwest Mexico) settled in the area now called Santa Ana Viejo attracted by the mission established by the Jesuits. The town was well-established by 1751.
The present town of Santa Ana was founded by Diego A. Moreno in the year 1883, when the Sonoran Railroad was being built in this area of the state. Santa Ana achieved the status of a municipality in 1935. The movie
The Fast and The Furious was filmed throughout the months of June and July, 2008, in Santa Ana as well as Magdalena de Kino, Sonora.
The main tourist attraction in Santa Ana is the church built in the 1900s to honor Our Lady of Saint Ana. Every year during the month of July, the whole town celebrates the day of their Saint with a fair and dances.
Economy
Agriculture is an important economic activity with the main crops being wheat, corn, vegetables, and grasses for cattle fodder.
Another important economic activity is cattle raising with over 20,000 head counted in the 2000 census. Calves are exported to the United States of America.
The industrial sector is small but one
maquiladora
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plant alone employs around 800 workers.
References
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
SonoraEnciclopedia de los Municipios de México
External links
Santa Ana, Ayuntamiento Digital''(Official Website of Santa Ana, Sonora)''
Photographs
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Populated places in Sonora
Populated places in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico