Agua Prieta

Agua Prieta is a Mexican metropolis positioned inside the northeast of the nation of Sonora, at the border with the USA of America. The town is the municipal seat and the maximum inhabited locality of the Municipality of Agua Prieta. According to information from the Population and Housing Census performed in 2015 with the aid of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Agua Prieta has a populace of 82,918 populations, which makes it the eighth most populated town on this nation.

Its basis turned into in 1899, spotting itself as a city from 1942. The call comes from the word opata bachicuy, which means 'black waters'. This is because within the region, the water with which the farmers of the past due 19th century, watering their cattle became dark, because of the nature of the land. The town dates from 1898; wherein the first settlers were folks who were employed to paintings within the mining enterprise Phelps and Dodge Copper Co., which had its foundry in Douglas, Arizona.