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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.
In the 16th century, Ópata may have entered Pima territory what is now Sonora from the northeast. [9] At the time of first contact with the Spanish in the mid-16th century, the Opatería was a land of "statelets," a number of independent, agricultural towns scattered up and down the inland valleys of the Sonora River (statelets: Corazones, Señora, and Guaraspi), Moctezuma River (statelets ...
A third version, written by Cristóbal de Cañas in 1730, states that the name comes from the word for a natural water well, "sonot" which the Spanish eventually modified to Sonora. It is not known if any of these stories are true.
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The name Pima was given to them by Spaniards because the word "pima" would be said in response to most questions asked to them in Spanish. This word roughly means "I don't know" or "I don't understand." The traditional territory of this ethnicity is known as the Pimería, and it is divided into two regions: the Pimería Alta and the Pimería Baja.
Republic of Sonora, a former federal republic in northern Mexico; Sonoran Desert, a desert in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States; Sonora Island, one of the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, Canada; Sonora Pass, a pass through the Sierra Nevada mountains in California
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