Bacadéhuachi

Bacadéhuachi is a village and municipality in the northeast of the Mexican state of Sonora. It is 269 kilometers northeast of the state capital, Hermosillo. The area of the municipality is 1,530.47 km² and the population was 1,264 in 2005, most of whom were residing in the only settlement, which serves as the municipal seat. . The municipal seat is located at an elevation of 850 meters. The name is derived from the Opata language with the roots "Baca", reed, "degua", entrance, door, and "tzi", place; "In the place of the reed". In 1645 the Jesuit missionary Cristóbal García founded the settlement of San Luis de Bacadéhuachi, in lands then occupied by the Opata tribe. The region is semi-arid and lies in the foothills of the Sierra Madre...