Country Mexico Municipality Trincheras Time zone MST (UTC-7) | State Sonora Founded 1775 Local time Friday 4:24 PM | |
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Weather 27°C, Wind NW at 18 km/h, 12% Humidity | ||
Trincheras is a town in Trincheras Municipality, in the north-west of the Mexican state of Sonora. It was founded in 1775 by Bernardo de Urrea. The municipal area is 3,764.26 km2. and the population in 2000 was 1,788. The main economic activities are cattle raising (21,000 head in 2000) and subsistence farming.
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Map of Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico
American Indian architecture
Trincheras was named for El Cerro de Trincheras, a nearby archaeological site. This site is also the namesake of a distinctive type of archaeological site found in the desert basins of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Remains of hillside terraces and walls reminded early explorers of "trincheras," the Spanish term for entrenchments or fortifications.
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Trincheras Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA