Trincheras
Place in Sonora, Mexico
30°24′0″N 111°32′0″W / 30.40000°N 111.53333°W / 30.40000; -111.53333![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png)
Trincheras is a town in Trincheras Municipality, in the north-west of the Mexican state of Sonora. It was founded in 1775 by Bernardo de Urrea [es]. The municipal area is 3,764.26 km2, and the population in 2000 was 1,788.
Economy
The main economic activities are cattle raising (21,000 head in 2000) and subsistence farming.
Indigenous architecture
Trincheras was named for El Cerro de Trincheras, a nearby archaeological site. This site is also the namesake of a distinctive type of archaeological site found in the desert basins of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Remains of hillside terraces and walls reminded early explorers of trincheras, the Spanish term for entrenchments or fortifications.[1]
Notes
- ^ What is a Trincheras Site? - Online Exhibit - In Flight: Adriel Heisey's Images of Trincheras Archaeology
External links
- Trincheras, Ayuntamiento Digital (Official Website of Trincheras, Sonora)
- Trincheras, Sonora (Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)
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Hermosillo (capital)
- Government
- Congress
- Governors
- History
- Seal
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- Aconchi (Aconchi)
- Agua Prieta (Agua Prieta)
- Álamos (Álamos)
- Altar (Altar)
- Arivechi (Arivechi)
- Arizpe (Arizpe)
- Atil (Atil)
- Bacadéhuachi (Bacadéhuachi)
- Bacanora (Bacanora)
- Bacerac (Bacerac)
- Bacoachi (Bacoachi)
- Bácum (Bácum)
- Banámichi (Banámichi)
- Baviácora (Baviácora)
- Bavispe (Bavispe)
- Benito Juárez (Villa Juárez)
- Benjamín Hill (Benjamín Hill)
- Caborca (Heroica Caborca)
- Cajeme (Ciudad Obregón)
- Cananea (Cananea)
- Carbó (Carbó)
- Cucurpe (Cucurpe)
- Cumpas (Cumpas)
- Divisaderos (Divisaderos)
- Empalme (Empalme)
- Etchojoa (Etchojoa)
- Fronteras (Fronteras)
- Granados (Granados)
- Guaymas (Guaymas)
- Hermosillo (Hermosillo)
- Huachinera (Huachinera)
- Huásabas (Huásabas)
- Huatabampo (Huatabampo)
- Huépac (Huépac)
- Imuris (Imuris)
- La Colorada (La Colorada)
- Magdalena de Kino (Magdalena de Kino)
- Mazatán (Mazatán)
- Moctezuma (Moctezuma)
- Naco (Naco)
- Nácori Chico (Nácori Chico)
- Nacozari de García (Nacozari de García)
- Navojoa (Navojoa)
- Nogales (Nogales)
- Onavas (Onavas)
- Opodepe (Opodepe)
- Oquitoa (Oquitoa)
- Pitiquito (Pitiquito)
- Puerto Peñasco (Puerto Peñasco)
- Plutarco Elías Calles (Sonoyta)
- Quiriego (Quiriego)
- Rayón (Rayón)
- Rosario de Tesopaco (Rosario de Tesopaco)
- Sahuaripa (Sahuaripa)
- San Felipe de Jesús (San Felipe de Jesús)
- San Ignacio Río Muerto (San Ignacio Río Muerto)
- San Javier (San Javier)
- San Luis Río Colorado (San Luis Río Colorado)
- San Miguel de Horcasitas (San Miguel de Horcasitas)
- San Pedro de la Cueva (San Pedro de la Cueva)
- Santa Ana (Santa Ana)
- Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz)
- Sáric (Sáric)
- Soyopa (Soyopa)
- Suaqui Grande (Suaqui Grande)
- Tepache (Tepache)
- Trincheras (Trincheras)
- Tubutama (Tubutama)
- Ures (Ures)
- Villa Hidalgo (Villa Hidalgo)
- Villa Pesqueira (Villa Pesqueira)
- Yécora (Yécora)