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ISO 3166-2, International Organization for Standardization - ISO 3166 Codes Mexico. ISO 3166 Country Codes, International Organization for Standardization. Accessed on line October 21, 2007. States of Mexico, statoids.com. Last updated April 23, 2007; accessed on line October 21, 2007.
The Congress is the governmental deliberative body of Sonora, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive. The Congress is unicameral and consists of 33 deputies . 21 deputies are elected on a first-past-the-post basis, one for each district in which the entity is divided, while 12 are elected through a system of proportional ...
Hermosillo is a municipality in Sonora in northwestern Mexico, being the largest and most populous municipality in Sonora. [2] The municipal seat is the city of Hermosillo.. As municipal seat, the city of Hermosillo is the local government of over 3,800 other localities, [3] with a combined territory of 14,880.2 km 2. [4]
Several theories exist as to the origin of the name "Sonora". One theory states that the name was derived from Nuestra Señora, the name given to the territory when Diego de Guzmán crossed the Yaqui River on October 7, the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary (Nuestra Señora del Rosario), the pronunciation possibly changing because the indigenous languages of the area did not have the ñ sound.
The only other localities with over 1,000 inhabitants are La Mesa (2,996) and Centro de Readaptación Social Nuevo (2,203) Nogales is served by Nogales International Airport . The population growth is in part due to the influx of industry that has come since the opening of the maquiladora industry through the National Industrialization Program ...
Estado de Occidente (English: Western State; also known as Sonora y Sinaloa) was a Mexican state established in 1824. The constitution was drafted in that year and the government was initially established with its capital at El Fuerte, Sinaloa. The first governor was Juan Miguel Riesgo.
San Luis Río Colorado is a municipality in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico, being the northwesternmost municipality in Sonora and covering an area of 8412.75 km 2. [1] [2] The municipality is the location of the city of San Luis Rio Colorado (its municipal seat), the community of El Golfo de Santa Clara, and the Bahia Adair ...
List of governors of the Mexican state of Sonora since 1911: 2021–present Alfonso Durazo MORENA; 2015–2021 Claudia Pavlovich Arellano PRI; 2009–2015 Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN [a] 2003–2009 Eduardo Bours Castelo PRI; 1997–2003 Armando López Nogales PRI; 1991–1997 Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera PRI; 1991–1991 Mario Morúa Johnson