Granados Municipality, Sonora Explained

Granados
Settlement Type:Municipality
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Seat Type:Seat
Seat:Granados
Leader Title:Municipal president
Leader Name:José Vinicio Durazo Durazo
Established Title:Established
Established Date:3 December 1862
Area Total Km2:363.9
Population As Of:2020 Census
Population Total:1009
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Blank1 Title:Seat
Population Blank1:1009
Timezone:Pacífico (no DST)
Utc Offset:-6
Coordinates:29.8619°N -109.3108°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Elevation Point:of seat
Elevation M:533
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:84460[2]
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:634
Website:Official website

Granados is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora, located approximately northeast of Hermosillo, the state capital. It is named after, the second bishop of Sonora from 1788 to 1794.[3]

Geography

The municipality of Granados lies at an elevation between 400and(-) in the Sierra Madre Occidental in eastern Sonora. It borders the municipalities of Huásabas to the north, Bacadéhuachi to the east, Divisaderos to the south, and Moctezuma to the west.[4] The municipality covers an area of and comprises 0.2% of the state's area.

Granados lies in the valley of the Bavispe River, which is flanked by the Sierra de Huasabas to the west and the Sierra de Bacadéhuachi to the east.[5] The land cover in Granados mainly comprises subtropical forest (67%), desert grassland (15%) and foothills thornscrub (13%). The northern portion of the Bavispe River valley near the municipal seat of Granados is used for farmland.[4]

Climate

Granados has a semi-arid climate. Average temperatures in the municipality range between 14and(-), and average annual precipitation ranges between 400and(-).[4]

History

The Opata are the indigenous inhabitants of the Granados valley.[6] The settlement of Granados was founded in 1823 by members of the Durazo family from Moctezuma and their friend Ramón Arvizu.[3]

On 3 December 1862, the municipality of Granados was established in the district of Moctezuma. It became an independent municipality in 1916. From 31 December 1930 to 16 April 1932 it was merged with the municipality of Cumpas.[7]

Administration

The municipal government of Granados comprises a president, a councillor (Spanish: síndico), and three trustees (regidores) elected by relative majority.[3] [8] The current president of the municipality is José Vinicio Durazo Durazo.[9]

Demographics

In the 2020 Mexican Census, Granados recorded a population of 1009 inhabitants living in 342 households.[10] The 2010 Census recorded a population of 1150 inhabitants in Granados.[1] The municipal seat, also known as Granados, is the only inhabited locality in the municipality.[10]

Economy and infrastructure

In the 2015 Intercensal Survey, 35% of Granados's workforce was employed in the primary sector, 15% in the secondary sector, 13% in commerce, and 34% in services.[11] Cattle farming is the main economic activity.[12]

A paved road runs from Granados north to Huásabas, where it intersects with the highway to Moctezuma and Hermosillo. There is also an airstrip in Granados.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sistema Nacional de Información Municipal . es . . 2010 . 8 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Consulta de Códigos Postales . Catálogo Nacional de Códigos Postales . . 7 January 2022 . 8 January 2022.
  3. Web site: Granados . es . Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México . . 8 January 2022 . 13 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211213153802/http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM26sonora/municipios/26028a.html . dead .
  4. Web site: Granados, Sonora . Prontuario de información geográfica municipal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos . es . INEGI . 2009 . 8 January 2022.
  5. Book: Bandelier, A. F. . Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier . Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United States, Carried on Mainly in the Years from 1880 to 1885: Part II . 1892 . . 499 . 8 January 2022.
  6. Book: Hinton, Thomas B. . A Survey of Indian Assimilation in Eastern Sonora . Tucson . 1959 . . Anthropological papers of the University of Arizona . 4 . 24 . 978-0-8165-0131-1 . 8 January 2022.
  7. Book: 1997 . División territorial del estado de Sonora de 1810 a 1995 . es . 170 . Mexico . . 970-13-1513-8 . 8 January 2022.
  8. Web site: Ley de Gobierno y Administración Municipal . es . Article 30 . 9 August 2021 . Government of Sonora . 8 January 2022.
  9. Web site: 8 June 2021 . Alcaldías ganadas por los partidos en la contienda para el periodo 2021-2024, de acuerdo al PREP . es . La Voz de Sonora . 8 January 2022.
  10. Book: Panorama sociodemográfico de Sonora. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 . 72–73 . es . INEGI . 2021 . 8 January 2022.
  11. Book: Cuadro 10.5: Población ocupada por municipio y su distribución porcentual según sector de actividad económica, al 15 de marzo de 2015 . Anuario estadístico y geográfico de Sonora 2017 . es . Mexico . INEGI . 8 January 2022.
  12. Web site: Granados . es . Atlas Estatal de Riesgos para el Estado de Sonora . Unidad Estatal de Protección Civil, Sonora . 8 January 2022.