Tehueco, is a
town
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
in
El Fuerte Municipality
Municipality of El Fuerte is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico
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, in the State of
Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales.
It is located in northwest Mexic ...
. It was named for the fierce Tehueco, one of the
Native American
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Ethnic groups
* Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America ...
people, who resisted the Spaniard conquest of Sinaloa.
Tehueco is the seat of the Tehueco Sindicatura one of seven sindicaturas that El Fuerte Municipality is subdivided into. The town of Tehueco has 859 inhabitants. It lies at an elevation 60 meters above sea level.
The town is located along the
Fuerte River
The Fuerte River is a river in the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico. It flows from headwaters in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Pacific Ocean in the Gulf of California.
Course
It begins at the junction of the Rio Verde (also called ...
, a little above its confluence with one of its major tributaries, the
Rio Cuchujaqui
Rio Cuchujaqui, Arroyo Cuchujaqui or Arroyo de Alamos, is a tributary river of the Fuerte River, in the Álamos Municipality of Sonora and in El Fuerte Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico
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.
N 26 17' 22" W 108 45' 49"
from mapper.acme.com accessed October 18, 2018
References
Populated places in Sinaloa
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