Cananea

Cananea, officially, Heroica City of Cananea, is a Mexican mining metropolis located northeast of the nation of Sonora. The metropolis has an approximate populace of 31,560 inhabitants. It is placed 297 kilometers from the country capital Hermosillo, 146 tests these distance kilometers from the border with the US of America in Heroica Nogales, 550 kilometers from Ciudad Obregon, 409 kilometers from the port city of Puerto Penasco, 432 kilometers from the port town of Heroica Guaymas and 2031 kilometers from Mexico City's capital metropolis.

The origins of this municipality cross back to the XVII century while the territory changed into occupied by way of Pimas Indians, being a simple rancheria. Father Eusebio Kino might tour the vicinity at that point, describing it as a simple and quiet Pima settlement hovered by Apaches. The first data of mineral extraction go returned to the Spanish colonization, in 1765 it is sought to set up a Real de Minas, however the ethnic corporations of the vicinity prevented it, in particular the harmful Apaches. By 1820, Jose Perez de Arizpe could settle the primary essential mine within the territory; but the Apaches could stop it.