Cócorit

Cócorit is a town located in the municipality of Cajeme in the southern part of the Mexican state of Sonora. Cajeme is located in the Yaqui Valley. The comisario municipal ("municipal commissioner") is Ing. Arturo Soto Valenzuela. Cócorit reported a 2005 census population of 7,953 inhabitants, and is the fifth-largest town in the municipality of Cajeme (after Ciudad Obregón, Esperanza, Pueblo Yaqui, and Tobarito). The town was originally founded in 1617 by the Jesuit Andrés Pérez de Ribas and Tomás Basilio missionaries although the inhabitants were force to leave by the Yaqui native population of the area. In 1835 the town was inhabited again, this time in an independent Mexico; the town was a dependence of the municipio of Buenavista....