Estación Torres

Last updated March 30, 2019

Estación Torres is a small town in the Mexican state of Sonora. At the turn of the twentieth century, Estación Torres and nearby Minas Prietas formed the "greatest mining camp in northwest Mexico."^[1] The town developed rapidly due to foreign investment and its location along the Sonoran railroad, but it soon declined in the early twentieth century. In 2005, the population of the town was 178.^[2]

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Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora, is one of 31 states that, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of United Mexican States. It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo. Sonora is bordered by the states of Chihuahua to the east, Baja California to the northwest and Sinaloa to the south. To the north, it shares the U.S.–Mexico border with the states of Arizona and New Mexico, and on the west has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of California.

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References

↑ Miguel Tinker-Salas: In the Shadow of the Eagles: Sonora and the Transformation of the Border during the Porfiriato (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997). page 176.
↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) Archived 2013-02-27 at WebCite

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[1] Miguel Tinker-Salas: In the Shadow of the Eagles: Sonora and the Transformation of the Border during the Porfiriato (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997). page 176.

[2] Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) Archived 2013-02-27 at WebCite