La Colorada is a small town in
La Colorada Municipality in the
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 ...
of
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 ...
in north-western
Mexico
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. In 2005, the population of the municipality was 1,754, with 288 living in the municipal seat.
History
The now-municipality was founded by Spanish Jesuit missionaries at some point between 1740 and 1743, as Mission San Francisco de Borja de Tecoripa. Formerly known as Minas Prietas, La Colorada became a municipality on June 28, 1934. As an important
mining
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camp in Mexico, La Colorada boasted a population that topped 5,604 in 1895. The municipality is situated 45 km (29 mi) southeast of
Hermosillo
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the state's ...
.
Other small towns located within the municipality include
Tecorípa,
Cobachi,
Estación Torres, and
San José de Pimas.
Main economic activities in La Colorada is Mining. Mina La Colorada is the main company which extracts from earth Gold, Copper and Zinc. Another mine nearby La Colorada extracts graphite to be used for domestic and industrial purposes.
References
External links
La Colorada, Ayuntamiento Digital''(Official Website of La Colorada, Sonora)''
Missions in Sonora
Jesuit history in North America
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