San Ignacio Río Muerto facts for kids
San Ignacio Río Muerto is a small town which is the capital of San Ignacio Río Muerto Municipality in the southwest of the Mexican state of Sonora.
Economy
Agriculture covered 35,000 productive hectares (2000), most of which were irrigated. Main crops are wheat, garbanzo beans, safflower, sorghum, watermelon, chile and melons. Agricultural production is transported to Ciudad Obregón for packing and export to the United States.
Cattle raising is carried out on a small scale and there were more than 6,000 head in 2000.
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