Chinapa

Chinapa (from Opata Chinopa, meaning "place of the cascalotes") is a village in Arizpe Municipality in the central-northern region of the Mexican state of Sonora, near the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sonora River.

Chinapa
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a Catholic church in Chinapa
Coordinates: 30°26′15″N 110°02′00″E
Population
  Total139[1]

History

San José de Chinapa was founded in 1648 by Jesuit missionaries, as a visita of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Arizpe.[2]

References

  1. "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020". www.inegi.org.mx. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  2. Ives, Ronald L. (1948). "The Sonoran Census of 1730". Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. 59 (4): 319–339. ISSN 0002-7790. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
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