Chinapa Explained

Chinapa
Image Alt:	Small brick church
Coordinates:	30.4375°N 110.0333°W
Population Total:	139^[1]

Chinapa (from Opata Chinopa, meaning "place of the cascalotes") is a village in Arizpe Municipality in the central-northern region of the Mexican state of Sonora, near the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sonora River.

History

San José de Chinapa was founded in 1648 by Jesuit missionaries, as a Spanish; Castilian: [[visita]] of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Arizpe.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 . www.inegi.org.mx . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía . 29 May 2024 . 2020.
2. Ives . Ronald L. . The Sonoran Census of 1730 . Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia . 1948 . 59 . 4 . 319–339 . 29 April 2024 . 0002-7790.