Imuris

Imuris is a municipality and a municipal seat in the north of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is 1,710.3 km² with a population of 9,988 registered in 2000. Most of the inhabitants live in the municipal seat, which had a population of 5,767 in 2000. The municipal population has increased greatly with the installation of maquiladoras and is now estimated to be around 14,000. Neighboring municipalities are Nogales, Santa Cruz, Cananea, Arizpe, Cucurpe, and Magdalena de Kino. Imuris is located along Federal Highway 15 - the long highway between Nogales at the USA/Mexico border and Mexico City - and the railroad line connecting Nogales and the USA into the Mexican railroad network. It is also the intersection with the...