Cajeme is one of the 72

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

of the northwestern

Mexican state A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government, state governor, a ...

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...

. It is named after Cajemé, a

Yaqui The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, a Uto-Aztecan language. Their primary homelands are in Río Yaqui valley in the no ...

leader. The municipality has an area of 3,312.05 km² (1,278.79 sq mi) and with a population of 436,484 inhabitants as of 2020. The municipal seat is at

Ciudad Obregón Ciudad Obregón is a city in southern Sonora. It is the state's second largest city after Hermosillo and serves as the municipal seat of Cajeme. As of 2020, the city has a population of 436,484. Ciudad Obregón is south of the country's U.S.� ...

History

tribes settled in the region at approximately 1100 and in 1533 had the first contact with the

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s, when Diego de Guzmán arrived at the Yaqui region. The Yaquis defeated the Spanish army. In the 17th century

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missionaries visited the zone to

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the

natives in 1617. In 1619, one of the missionaries, Martín Burgencio, founded Mission San Francisco Buenavista as a of Mission San Francisco Xavier de Cumuripa. In 1715 El Realito was founded, which is located in the northern region of the current municipio). In the 19th century

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developed at the

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s of Cumuripa, Buenavista and

Cócorit Cócorit is a town located in the municipality of Cajeme in the southern part of the Mexican state of Sonora. The name of the town is derived from the Yaqui (Yoem noki, or Hiak noki) word for a chili pepper, ''ko'oko'i.'' Cócorit and the munici ...

. Buenavista was the site for the

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of San Carlos de Buenavista during the

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. It was considered the capital of the Villa de Salvación since 1820 and in the second half of the 19th century it was considered part of the

Guaymas Guaymas () is a city in Guaymas Municipality, in the southwest part of the List of states of Mexico, state of Sonora, in northwestern Mexico. The city is south of the state capital of Hermosillo, and from the Mexico – United States border, U.S. ...

district, as well as part of the Yaqui

pueblo Pueblo refers to the settlements of the Pueblo peoples, Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, currently in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. The permanent communities, including some of the oldest continually occupied settlement ...

s. The first inhabitants of Ciudad Obregón established at the Plano Oriente neighborhood when irrigation systems by the Richardson company started functioning in 1910. The train Sudpacífico established a station they called ''Cajeme''. Cajeme then was a part of the municipio of Cócorit until it became the capital of the municipio on November 29, 1927. On July 28, 1928, ''Ciudad Obregón'' was declared as name for the town previously known as ''Cajeme'' and that it would become the capital of the municipio of ''Cajeme''. Previously Cócorit had been dependent on the district of Buenavista during the independent period. According to a law from 1828 for the indigenous governments it was established as a capital of one of their government divisions. On December 26, 1930 it was annexed to the Cajeme municipality.

Important towns

* Esperanza * Marte R. Gómez (Tobarito) * Providencia * Pueblo Yaqui

Government

Municipal presidents

References

Sources

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005
INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Sonora
Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

External links

Sitio Oficial de Cajeme
Official website

at the site of the tourism office of the state of

.
History of Cajeme
at the official site of the municipio.
Noticias, fotos, videos, clasificados, empresas y eventos en Ciudad Obregón

OCV Ciudad Obregón
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