Bacum

Bacum is a Mexican city positioned within the south of the state of Sonora, within the place of the Yaqui Valley, the town is the municipal seat of the municipality of Bacum and the second maximum populated town on this municipality, most effective after Francisco Javier Mina. According to facts from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, in 2010 Bacum had four,318 population. It was founded in 1617 through the Jesuit missionaries Andres Perez de Rivas and Tomas Basilio as a Jesuit task with the purpose of evangelizing the Yaqui tribes that at that time inhabited the old Bacum, which become and is one of the eight ancient Yaqui towns.

The territory of the metropolis of Bacum turned into occupied lengthy earlier than the appearance of the Spaniards by using the Yaqui Indians, being one of the 8 towns inhabited by way of these natives. In the 12 months of 1617, with the improvement of the colonizers in the direction of the north of New Spain, the evangelizers and Jesuit missionaries Andres Perez de Rivas and Tomas Basilio arrived to this region to explore and pontificate to the natives, and based a Jesuit venture with the name of Santa Rosa de Bacum, having as a town journeying Cocorit.