Cananea (municipality)
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 Municipality of Cananea in Sonora |
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| Coordinates: 30°57′N 110°18′W / 30.950°N 110.300°WCoordinates: 30°57′N 110°18′W / 30.950°N 110.300°W | ||
| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Sonora | |
| Municipal seat | Cananea | |
| European arrival | 1760 | |
| Municipality created | 8 November 1901 | |
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| • Mayor of Cananea | Jesus Reginaldo Moreno Garcia (PRI) | |
| Area | ||
| • Municipality | 4,414.1 km2 (1,704.3 sq mi) | |
| Elevation(average) | 1,500 m (4,900 ft) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Municipality | 32,936 | |
| • Density | 7.5/km2 (19/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 31,560 | |
| Time zone | MST (UTC-7) | |
| Postal code | 84620 | |
| Area code(s) | 645 | |
| Demonym | Cananense | |
| Website | http://www.cananea.gob.mx | |
Cananea is a municipality in the northern portion of the Mexican state of Sonora, on the U.S. border. Its municipal seat is the city of Cananea, located at 30°58′55″N 110°18′02″W / 30.98194°N 110.30056°W.
The population of the municipality of Cananea was 32,936 (2010 census). Most of the population lives in the municipal seat, which had 31,560 inhabitants in the same year. This represented over 95.8% of the total.
The largest localities (cities, towns, and villages) are:
The territory now occupied by the municipality was originally a rancheria inhabited by the Pima Indians, who had been pacified by the Spanish in the seventeenth century.
According to local information, the word Cananea comes from two Apache words: “can” which means "meat" and “efa” which means "horse".
The colonial development of Cananea was influenced gby the nearby missions of Arizpe, Santa María and Cocóspera. In the middle of the nineteenth century Cananea became part of the province of Sonora, becoming a "real de minas". On 8 November 1901, Cananea was raised to municipal status, after having been part of the municipality of Fronteras.
In 1906 the site was stage to perhaps the most famous strike in Mexican history, the "huelga de Cananea". This strike was against the American owned mining company and was put down by forces brought across the border from the United States with considerable loss of life on the part of the striking miners. This strike is considered to be one of the precursors to the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Cananea became a municipality in 1901. In 1937 the territory of Naco separated and it became municipality of Naco. On 31 October 2001, the city of Cananea temporarily became the capital of the state of Sonora during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the municipality.
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