Nogales

Heroica Nogales, greater normally known as Nogales, is a city and the county seat of the Municipality of Nogales. It is located at the northern border of the Mexican state of Sonora. The city is abutted on its north with the aid of the town of Nogales, Arizona, across the U.S.-Mexico border. The unbiased Nogales Municipality, which blanketed the town of Nogales, changed into hooked up on July eleven, 1884. The Nogales Municipality covers a place of 1,675 km². Nogales become d a metropolis within the Municipality on January 1, 1920.

The worldwide alternate that existed between the two towns substantially propelled the financial development of Nogales, Sonora, and the extra Northern Sonora vicinity, however that did now not prevent enormous problems from forming within the area after the outbreak of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. On August 27, 1918, at approximately 4:10 pm, a gun struggle erupted accidentally whilst a Mexican civilian tried to pass thru the border, again to Mexico, without being interrogated at the U.S. Customs house. After the initial taking pictures, reinforcements from both aspects rushed to the border.