Trincheras is a town in Trincheras Municipality, in the north-west of 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 ...

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 was founded in 1775 by . The municipal area is 3,764.26 km², and the population in 2000 was 1,788.

Economy

The main economic activities are cattle raising (21,000 head in 2000) and subsistence farming.

Indigenous architecture

Trincheras was named for El Cerro de Trincheras, a nearby archaeological site. This site is also the namesake of a distinctive type of archaeological site found in the desert basins of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Remains of hillside terraces and walls reminded early explorers of ''trincheras,'' the Spanish term for entrenchments or fortifications.What is a Trincheras Site? - Online Exhibit - ''In Flight: Adriel Heisey's Images of Trincheras Archaeology''
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Notes

External links

Trincheras, Ayuntamiento Digital
''(Official Website of Trincheras, Sonora)''

''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)'' Trincheras at Cerro De Trincheras

{{Sonora Populated places in Sonora Dwellings of the Pueblo peoples