Villa Pesqueira is a town, and the surrounding municipality

Municipalities of Mexico

Municipalities are the second-level administrative division in Mexico . There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico, making the average municipality population 45,616...

 of the same name, in the central region of the Mexican state of Sonora

Sonora

Sonora officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo....

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It was founded in 1629 by the missionary Martín de Azpilcueta

Martín de Azpilcueta

Martín de Azpilcueta , or Doctor Navarrus, was an important Spanish canonist and theologian in his time, and an early economist, the first to develop monetarist theory.-Life:...

 as (San José de) Mátapa. The State Congress ordered the change to its current name, at the inhabitants' request, on 11 February 1867.
The municipality was created on 11 December 1930, with the escision of its territory from the adjacent municipality of Ures

Ures

Ures is a small city and a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora.-Area:It has an area of 2,618.56 square kilometers. This is 1.41% of the total area of the state, and 0.13 percent of the national area of Mexico...

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The municipal area is 1,834.13 km². and the population was 1,590, of whom 96% lived in the urban area. The main economic activities are cattle raising (18,000 head in 2005), subsistence farming, and mining.

External links

• Villa Pesqueira, Sonora (Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)