Mazatán, Sonora

Mazatán is a municipality and a municipal seat in the center of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is 649.27 km² with a population of 4,187 registered in 2000. The municipal seat had a population of 1,499 in 2000. It is located at an elevation of 450 meters. Neighboring municipalities are Ures, Villa Pesqueira, La Colorada, and Hermosillo. The settlement of Mazatán was founded in the seventeenth century by the Jesuit Juan Nentuig. Its name comes from the Opata language and means "place of deer". During the nineteenth century Mazatán belonged to the district of Ures. It became a municipality on 10 December 1907. The region is part of the valleys of the center of the state. The average annual temperature is 21.7°C and the...