Tubutama is a town in

Tubutama Municipality Tubutama Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora in north-western Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the nor ...

, in the north-west 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 ...

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 ...

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, SJ, founded

Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama is located in Tubutama, Sonora and was first founded in 1691 by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. Father Antonio de los Reyes on 6 July 1772 submitted a report on the condition of the missions in the Upp ...

in 1691. Tubutama was the headquarters of religious administration for the entire

Pimería Alta The ''Pimería Alta'' (translated to 'Upper Pima Land'/'Land of the Upper Pima' in English) was an area of the 18th century Sonora y Sinaloa Province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, that encompassed parts of what are today southern Arizona in th ...

during much of the

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and

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of Spanish colonial rule. The municipal area is , and the population was 1,798 in 2005. The main economic activities are cattle raising (11,000 head in 2005) and subsistence farming.

External links

Tubutama, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official Website of Tubutama, Sonora)''

''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)''

{{Sonora Populated places in Sonora Populated places in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico

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