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Soyopa

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Country
  
Mexico

Municipality
  
Soyopa

Local time
  
Tuesday 11:36 AM

State
  
Sonora

Time zone
  
MST (UTC-7)

Weather
  
24°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 36% Humidity

Soyopa (Yaqui: "hot land") is a town in Soyopa Municipality, in the eastern region of the Mexican state of Sonora. The elevation is 350 meters.

Map of Soyopa, Sonora, Mexico

The main economic activities are cattle raising (16,000 head in 2000), agriculture (rye, sorghum, wheat), and mining.

Silver was mined here beginning in the eighteenth century and the town had its economic heyday around 1880. After that the silver mines ran out and the population declined.

References

Soyopa Wikipedia