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Sonora:
Sonora
State
is located in the northwest region of the Mexican
Republic, and with its 182,052 km2 is the
second State in territorial extension of Mexico.
Within
the jurisdiction of the State of Sonora are also
important islands as those of Tiburón (Shark), Pelicano
(Pelican) and San Esteban. Its political division
compose it 565 municipalities with a population of
approximately 2'216,969 inhabitants.
The
State of Sonora is located between 27º 18' and 32º 29'
of north latitude and 108º 14' of length west and
limits to the northwest with the State of Baja
California, to the north with USA,
to the east with the State of Chihuahua,
to the south with the State of Sinaloa
and to the west with the California Gulf.
The
State of Sonora has beautiful beaches that are extended
throughout 900 km., some of they virgin, other that they
offer to the facilities visitor to practice aquatic
sports, as diving, fishing, sail, etc. Furthermore, the
dammings of the rivers, offer also opportunity to fish.
In the preys of the Angostura, the Novillo and the
Ovachic, the tourist finds varieties as lobina, bagre
and mojarra.
In
Sonora vast coastal, it can be participated in an
international fishing tilt or well, to enjoy product of
the sport the fishing. Its soft and vast beaches are
sunny all year round. Puerto Peñasco
(Port Cliff), Bahía Kino
(Bay Kino), Puerto Lobos (Port Wolves) and San
Carlos, they are ideal places to
enjoy the life sea.
The
fans to the hunt, find also opportunities to achieve
valuable kinds, within the authorized eras, of deer,
boar, duck and other more.
The
State of Sonora name derived from the word opata "Xunuta",
indirect complement from "Xunut" (Sonot) corn
and means "In the corn" or "Place of the
corn". The Indians opatas of the region of the
Sonora river, they were called therefore Sonoras. This
confirms it the historian Francisco R. Aldama, author of
the History Dictionary, Geography and Bibliography
Sonorenses, who supports that the voice Sonora that
corresponds to the state, it was the name of one of the
ancient indigenous tribes that were inhabiting in the
current territory. This denomination is impulse in fact
in 1648, instead of New Andalusia, name consider the
Spanish General Pedro de la Perea.
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