Cananea

Cananea is a municipality in the northern portion of the Mexican state of Sonora, on the U.S. border. Its municipal seat is the city of Cananea, located at 30°58′55″N 110°18′02″W / 30.98194°N 110.30056°W / 30.98194; -110.30056. The population of the municipality of Cananea was 32,936 (2010 census). Most of the population lives in the municipal seat, which had 31,560 inhabitants in the same year. This represented over 95.8% of the total. The largest localities (cities, towns, and villages) are: The territory now occupied by the municipality was originally a rancheria inhabited by the Pima Indians, who had been pacified by the Spanish in the seventeenth century. According to local information, the word Cananea comes from two Apache...