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Country	Mexico
State	Sonora
Municipality	Ures
Time zone	UTC-7 (Pacific (US Mountain))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (No DST)

Ures is a small city and a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora.

Population

In the year 2000, the total population was 9,553 residents. New figures from 2005 reported 8,420, meaning a considerable decline in population due to emigration. The municipal seat had a population of 3,959 in 2000.

Geography

It has an area of 2,618.56 square kilometers. This is 1.41% of the total area of the state, and 0.13 percent of the national area of Mexico. Besides the seat, the most important localities are Guadalupe de Ures, San Pedro, Pueblo de Alamos and El Sauz.

The municipality is in the basin of the Sonora River. As the river crosses the area, the river receives waters from Los Alamos, Bamuco, Nava, San Pedro, Cañada de Agua, and Los Cochis. Also, it receives runoff from washes as El Carrizo, Zuribate, Palo Parado, La Ladrillera, Santiago, and El Pescado. It has a reservoir that was recently built called Teópari.

The municipality is nestled within the mountains, hills, and valleys that form the edge of the Western Sierra Madre. The elevation of the administrative seat was 420 meters above sea level.

Climate

The average maximum monthly temperature is 31.8 °C (89.2 °F) in the month of July, the average minimum monthly temperature is 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in the month of January, and the overall average temperature is 23.1 °C (73.6 °F). The annual precipitation is 430.1 millimetres (16.93 in), and the rainiest months are July and August. There are occasional frosts from December to March.

Vegetation

The vegetation is of mesquite and subtropical desert species.

Communications

A paved federal highway crosses the municipality from west to east.

History

Ures is one of the oldest cities of the state of Sonora. It was first reported by Cabeza de Vaca on his overland trek from Galveston in the 1530s and was called by him "Corazones", or "Village of Hearts". Coronado stopped there in the course of his 1540 expedition. It was founded in 1644 as a mission by the Jesuit missionary Francisco París, and was known as San Miguel de Ures until 1665. In 1823 Ures became the capital of Sonora, but was replaced the following year when Sonora was merged into Occidente State.

At the end of 1838, Ures became a city; and was the capital of Sonora from 1838 to 1842, and again from 1847 to 1879. Afterwards, it became the seat of a district.

During the Fall of the Second Mexican Empire in 1866, the Battle of Guadalupe took place within the municipality of Ures. On September 5, 1998, the state legislature gave it the title of Heroic City, commemorating the liberal defense against imperialists. [1]. Geronimo took refuge in the mountains of this region when generals Crook and Miles fought him in Arizona. The most notable Apache raids were in 1870, when the priest Echevería was killed in the town, and in 1882, when the distinguished scholar Leocadio Salcedo was killed at the La Noria ranch. Residents of the region also had problems with Yaqui uprisings and insurrections of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Tourism

In Ures you can visit “La Plaza de Armas(La Plaza de Zaragoza)” with its four 18th-century bronze sculptures, San Miguel Mission and the church bearing the same name with its legendary mesquite stairway. In addition, you will see the majestic arch commemorating the Independence and the house where General Pesqueira used to live, The Folkloric Museum, and the old Flour Mill.

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal president	Term	Political party	Notes
Adeodato Campbell Quijada	1868
Fernando M. Araiza	1913–1914
Ernesto Estrella	1914–1915
Victoriano Navarro	1915
Alfredo Romo	1916
F. J. Morales	1917
Constantino Laborín	1920–1922
Jesús Casillas	1922–1923
Santiago Muñoz	1923–1929
Luis S. Navarro	1929–1931	PNR
Victoriano Navarro	1931	PNR	Acting municipal president
Luis Haro	1931–1932	PNR
Jesús Núñez D.	1932–1933	PNR
Rafael Puebla	1933	PNR	Acting municipal president
Miguel Canizales Bonilla	1933–1935	PNR
Manuel J. Duarte	1935	PNR	Acting municipal president
Pedro López P.	1935–1937	PNR
Antonio Arce	1937	PNR	Acting municipal president
Rafael Puebla	1937–1940	PNR PRM
Anselmo Gándara	1940–1943	PRM
Reynaldo Paz Molinares	1943–1946	PRM
Jesús Noriega Calles	1946–1949	PRI
Alfredo Romo Córdova	1949–1952	PRI
Rubén Romo Córdova	1952–1955	PRI
Francisco Amador Torres	1955–1958	PRI
Antonio Gándara Romo	1958–1961	PRI
Héctor Maytorena Salcido	1961–1964	PRI
Moisés Navarro Duarte	1964–1967	PRI
Francisco Téllez Villaescusa	1967–1970	PRI
Abel Estrella Bustamante	1970–1973	PRI
Héctor Romo Córdova	1973–1976	PRI
Guadalupe Trujillo Romo	1976–1979	PRI
Óscar Jara Ramírez	1979–1982	PRI
Eduardo A. de los Reyes Gray	1982–1985	PRI
Marco Antonio Romo Aguilar	1985–1988	PRI
Eduardo Salcido Celaya	1988–1991	PRI
Jorge Alberto Gastélum	1991–1994	PRI
Ramón Mario López Córdova	1994–1997	PRI
Manuel Ignacio Espinoza González	1997–2000	PRD
Arnoldo Trujillo Fuentes	2000–2003	PRI
Marco Antonio Coronado Acuña	16-09-2003–15-09-2006	PRI
Juan Ángel Córdova Salcido	16-09-2006–15-09-2009	PRI Panal	Alliance PRI Sonora-Panal
Noé Coronado Cha	16-09-2009–15-09-2012	PAN
José Manuel Valenzuela Salcido	16-09-2012–15-09-2015	PAN
David Gracia Paz	16-09-2015–15-09-2018	PRI PVEM Panal	Coalition "For an Honest and Effective Government"
Héctor Gastón Rodríguez Galindo	16-09-2018–15-09-2021	PAN PRD	Coalition "For Sonora to the Front"
José Manuel Valenzuela Salcido	16-09-2021–	Morena

Sources consulted

• Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico
• INEGI National statistics

See also

In Spanish: Ures para niños