Etchojoa is one of the seventy-two municipalities in the Mexican

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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 located in the southern part of the state, in the Mayo Valley area and on the coast of the Gulf of California. Its municipal seat and most inhabited town is Etchojoa. Other important towns include

Bacobampo Bacobampo is a town in Etchojoa Municipality in Sonora, in northwestern Mexico. It is situated on the west bank of the Mayo River, 20 km north of Huatabampo and 25 km southwest of Navajoa. It is an agricultural town surrounded by fields. Bacoba ...

, , and . The municipality was founded on October 15, 1909. According to the Population and Housing Census carried out in 2020 by the

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(INEGI), the municipality has a total of 61,309 inhabitants, ranking 11th among the most populated in the state, and has an area of 949.85 km². Its gross domestic product per capita is

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$5,701 and its

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(HDI) is 0.7223. Like most municipalities in Sonora, the name was given because of its municipal head.

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