Ures

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Ures
Coordinates: 29°25′N110°23′W / 29.417°N 110.383°W / 29.417; -110.383 Coordinates: 29°25′N110°23′W / 29.417°N 110.383°W / 29.417; -110.383
CountryMexico
State Sonora
MunicipalityUres
Time zone UTC-7 (Pacific (US Mountain))
  Summer (DST) UTC-7 (No DST)

Ures is a small city and a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora.

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Area

It has an area of 2,618.56 square kilometers. This is 1.41% of the total area of the state, and 0.13 percent of the national area of Mexico. Besides the seat, the most important localities are Guadalupe de Ures, San Pedro, Pueblo de Alamos and El Sauz.

Population

In the year 2000, the total population was 9,553 residents. New figures from 2005 reported 8,420, meaning a considerable decline in population due to emigration. The municipal seat had a population of 3,959 in 2000.

Physical and geographical facts

The municipality is in the basin of the Sonora River. As the river crosses the area, the river receives waters from Los Alamos, Bamuco, Nava, San Pedro, Cañada de Agua, and Los Cochis. Also, it receives runoff from washes as El Carrizo, Zuribate, Palo Parado, La Ladrillera, Santiago, and El Pescado. It has a reservoir that was recently built called Teópari.

The municipality is nestled within the mountains, hills, and valleys that form the edge of the Western Sierra Madre. The elevation of the administrative seat was 420 meters above sea level.

Climate

The average maximum monthly temperature is 31.8 °C (89.2 °F) in the month of July, the average minimum monthly temperature is 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in the month of January, and the overall average temperature is 23.1 °C (73.6 °F). The annual precipitation is 430.1 millimetres (16.93 in), and the rainiest months are July and August. There are occasional frosts from December to March.

Vegetation

The vegetation is of mesquite and subtropical desert species.

Communications

A paved federal highway crosses the municipality from west to east.

History

Ures is one of the oldest cities of the state of Sonora. It was first reported by Cabeza de Vaca on his overland trek from Galveston in the 1530s and was called by him "Corazones", or "Village of Hearts". Coronado stopped there in the course of his 1540 expedition. [1] It was founded in 1644 as a mission by the Jesuit missionary Francisco París, [2] [3] and was known as San Miguel de Ures until 1665. In 1823 Ures became the capital of Sonora, but was replaced the following year when Sonora was merged into Occidente State.

At the end of 1838, Ures became a city; and was the capital of Sonora from 1838 to 1842, and again from 1847 to 1879. Afterwards, it became the seat of a district.

During the Fall of the Second Mexican Empire in 1866, the Battle of Guadalupe took place within the municipality of Ures. On September 5, 1998, the state legislature gave it the title of Heroic City, commemorating the liberal defense against imperialists. . Geronimo took refuge in the mountains of this region when generals Crook and Miles fought him in Arizona. The most notable Apache raids were in 1870, when the priest Echevería was killed in the town, and in 1882, when the distinguished scholar Leocadio Salcedo was killed at the La Noria ranch. Residents of the region also had problems with Yaqui uprisings and insurrections of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Tourism

In Ures you can visit “La Plaza de Armas(La Plaza de Zaragoza)” with its four 18th-century bronze sculptures, San Miguel Mission and the church bearing the same name with its legendary mesquite stairway. In addition, you will see the majestic arch commemorating the Independence and the house where General Pesqueira used to live, The Folkloric Museum, and the old Flour Mill.

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal presidentTermPolitical partyNotes
Adeodato Campbell Quijada1868
Fernando M. Araiza [4] 1913–1914
Ernesto Estrella1914–1915
Victoriano Navarro1915
Alfredo Romo1916
F. J. Morales1917
Constantino Laborín1920–1922
Jesús Casillas1922–1923
Santiago Muñoz1923–1929
Luis S. Navarro1929–1931 PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
Victoriano Navarro1931PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg Acting municipal president
Luis Haro1931–1932PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
Jesús Núñez D.1932–1933PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
Rafael Puebla1933PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg Acting municipal president
Miguel Canizales Bonilla1933–1935PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
Manuel J. Duarte1935PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg Acting municipal president
Pedro López P.1935–1937PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
Antonio Arce1937PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg Acting municipal president
Rafael Puebla1937–1940PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
Anselmo Gándara1940–1943PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
Reynaldo Paz Molinares1943–1946PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
Jesús Noriega Calles1946–1949 PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Alfredo Romo Córdova1949–1952PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Rubén Romo Córdova1952–1955PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Francisco Amador Torres1955–1958PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Antonio Gándara Romo1958–1961PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Héctor Maytorena Salcido1961–1964PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Moisés Navarro Duarte1964–1967PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Francisco Téllez Villaescusa1967–1970PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Abel Estrella Bustamante1970–1973PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Héctor Romo Córdova1973–1976PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Guadalupe Trujillo Romo1976–1979PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Óscar Jara Ramírez1979–1982PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Eduardo A. de los Reyes Gray1982–1985PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Marco Antonio Romo Aguilar1985–1988PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Eduardo Salcido Celaya1988–1991PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Jorge Alberto Gastélum [5] 1991–1994PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Ramón Mario López Córdova [6] 1994–1997PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Manuel Ignacio Espinoza González [7] 1997–2000 PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
Arnoldo Trujillo Fuentes [8] 2000–2003PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Marco Antonio Coronado Acuña [9] [10] 16-09-2003–15-09-2006PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Juan Ángel Córdova Salcido [11] [12] 16-09-2006–15-09-2009PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
Alliance PRI Sonora-Panal
Noé Coronado Cha [13] 16-09-2009–15-09-2012 PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
José Manuel Valenzuela Salcido [14] 16-09-2012–15-09-2015PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
David Gracia Paz [15] 16-09-2015–15-09-2018PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
Coalition "For an Honest and Effective Government"
Héctor Gastón Rodríguez Galindo [16] 16-09-2018–15-09-2021PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg Coalition "For Sonora to the Front"
José Manuel Valenzuela Salcido [17] 16-09-2021– Morena Morena logo (Mexico).svg

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