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The origin of Hermosillo dates to the 1700s, when the mission villages of Our Lady of The Populace, Our Lady of Angels, and the Holy Trinity of Pitic were founded. They collected members of the Yaqui, Seri, Tepoca, and Pima Bajo peoples. Years earlier, internal difficulties had occurred between the Tepoca and the Bajo Pima peoples.
This article details the history of Sonora. ... It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo. Sonora is located in Northwest Mexico, bordered ...
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.
Currently, the Archdiocese of Hermosillo has three suffragan dioceses: Ciudad Obregón and Culiacán, and the newly created (in 2015) Nogales. The Diocese of Hermosillo was originally created as the Diocese of Sonora on May 7, 1779. On September 1, 1959 the name was changed to Diocese of Hermosillo; it was elevated to Archdiocese on July 13, 1963.
Hermosillo is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlos Hermosillo (born 1964), Mexican footballer; Carmen Hermosillo (died 2008), American writer and poet; Jaime Humberto Hermosillo (1942–2020), Mexican film director; Michael Hermosillo (born 1995), American baseball outfielder
Two Sonoran dogs topped with minced onion, green chile sauce, diced tomato, pinto beans, mustard, and mayonnaise. A Sonoran hot dog, with pinto beans, tomatoes, green salsa, jalapeño, mustard, and mayonnaise, and with avocado and cotija cheese on top Sonoran hot dogs, with mayonnaise on top
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