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Sonora

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Sonora

Flag

Location within Mexico

Country

Mexico

Capital

Hermosillo

Municipalities

Government

- Governor

Eduardo Bours Castelo (PRI)

- Federal Deputies

PAN: 5
PRI: 2

- Federal Senators

PAN: 2
PRI: 1

Area
Ranked 2nd

- Total

182,052 km² (70,290.7 sq mi)

Population (2005)

- Total

2,394,861 (Ranked 19th)

HDI (2004)

0.8163 - high
Ranked 10th

ISO 3166-2

MX-SON

Postal abbr.

Son.

Website: Sonora State Government

Sonora is a state in northwestern Mexico, bordering the states of Chihuahua to the east, Sinaloa to the south, and Baja California to the northwest. To the north Sonora accounts for a long stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico; to the west it borders the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).

Sonora is important economically for its cattle production and mining, and popular among tourists for its fine beaches. Culturally it is important as a source of Norteño style music.

Cities with airports serving as points of entry include Hermosillo (the state capital), Ciudad Obregón, Nogales, Puerto Peñasco (aka "Rocky Point") and Guaymas. Smaller towns popular with tourists that have airports include Navojoa and Álamos. Border crossings include: the city of Nogales, across the border from Nogales, Arizona; the town of Agua Prieta, across from Douglas, Arizona; Sonoyta, opposite Lukeville, Arizona; Sasabe, opposite Sasabe, Arizona and San Luis Río Colorado opposite Yuma, Arizona.

Sonora y Sinaloa was the name of the constituent state of the Mexican Republic under its Constitution of 1824. On 30 September 1830 that state was divided into two – the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Father Eusebio Kino is important in the state's history.

Eduardo Bours Castelo, a member of the PRI, is the current governor.

1 Municipalities
2 Major communities
3 Higher Education Institutions
4 Sonora in Popular Media
5 See also
6 External links

Main article: Municipalities of Sonora

Sonora is subdivided into 72 municipalities (Spanish: municipios), each headed by a municipal president.

The main institution of higher education in the area is the Universidad de Sonora, with its main campus located in Hermosillo, and satellite campuses in Navojoa, Caborca, Santa Ana and Nogales. UNISON is currently one of the largest public universities in northwestern Mexico.

Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON)
Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo (ITH)
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO SUPERIOR DE PUERTO PEÑASCO (ITSPP)
Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora (CESUES)
Instituto Tecnológico de Nogales (ITN)
Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Cajeme (ITESCA)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM-COB)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM-CSN)
Universidad de Sonora (UNISON)
Universidad del Noroeste (UNO)
Universidad Kino
Universidad La Salle Noroeste (ULSA)
Universidad Tecnológica de Hermosillo (UTH)
Universidad Tecnológica de Nogales (UTN)
Universidad TecMilenio (UTM)
Atelier Sonorense
Universidad de Navojoa (UNAV)

URES

In How Few Remain, the prologue novel to Harry Turtledove's fictional Southern Victory alternate history series, the Confederate States of America, which won its independence in 1862, purchased Sonora and neighboring Chihuahua from the Second Mexican Empire (which lasted far longer than its real-life counterpart) in 1881. This purchase triggered a second war between the Confederate States and the United States, which came to be known as the Second Mexican War. Sonora and its people feature prominently in successive novels of the series as an integral part of the Confederacy.

Robert Earl Keen, Michael Martin Murphey, and others have performed the song "Sonora's Death Row", written by Kevin “Blackie” Farrell.

George Strait also briefly mentions Sonora in the song "The Seashores of Old Mexico".