San Francisco de Borja

This article is about the Mexican town. For the saint, see Francis Borgia.

San Francisco de Borja
Town
San Francisco de Borja Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 27°53′N106°40′W / 27.883°N 106.667°W / 27.883; -106.667
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Municipality	San Francisco de Borja
Population  (2010)
• Total	1,157

Arch at the city entrance

San Francisco de Borja is a town and seat of the municipality of San Francisco de Borja, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the town of San Francisco de Borja had a population of 1,157, ^[1] up from 1,142 as of 2005. ^[2]

San Francisco de Borja was founded as a Jesuit mission in the 1640s to the Tarahumara. The Tarahumara destroyed it in war with the Spanish in 1648, but it was later rebuilt. ^[3]

References

1. "San Francisco de Borja". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
2. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on October 25, 2008
3. Edward H. Spicer, Cycles of Conquest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962) p. 30