Caborca

Caborca formally Heroica Caborca, is a Mexican city located inside the northwest within the kingdom of Sonora, near the vicinity of the Sonoran Desert. Caborca is the municipal seat and the most populated metropolis of the homonymous municipality. According to information from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, in 2010, the town had a population of about 59,922 population. Caborca turned into based in December of 1693 with the aid of the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino in an indigenous agreement positioned at the foot of Cerro Prieto, baptizing it because the mission of the Immaculate Conception of

Our Lady of Caborca, with the reason of evangelizing the Pimas and Papagas tribes near. Etymologically the name of the municipality is "Cabota", which means corita upside down. The corita is a type of basket formed like a pot used by the papagos, that's woven with branches discovered inside the barren region of the region. When those utensils are located face down their shape resembles that of Cerro Prieto, which is a hill close to the town.