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Tubutama

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Country
  
Mexico

Municipality
  
Tubutama

Time zone
  
MST (UTC-7)

State
  
Sonora

Founded
  
late C.17th

Local time
  
Saturday 10:17 PM

Tubutama

Weather
  
18°C, Wind W at 8 km/h, 33% Humidity

Tubutama is a town in Tubutama Municipality, in the north-west of the Mexican state of Sonora. Eusebio Kino, SJ, founded Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama in 1691. Tubutama was the headquarters of religious administration for the entire Pimería Alta during much of the Jesuit and Franciscan period of Spanish colonial rule.

Map of Tubutama, Sonora, Mexico

The municipal area is 1,351.60 km2 (521.86 sq mi), and the population was 1,798 in 2005. The main economic activities are cattle raising (11,000 head in 2005) and subsistence farming.

References

Tubutama Wikipedia