Pitiquito

Pitiquito is a small city in Pitiquito Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican country of Sonora. When the Spanish arrived the area changed into populated via numerous sedentary tribes settled along the banks of the Altar and Magdalena rivers. It changed into founded by means of Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1694 with the name of Natividad del Senor de Pitiquin. In 1768 the Franciscans took over the churches and the call became modified to San Diego de Pitiquin. According to neighborhood tradition the city took the call of an Indian leader known as "Piti or Pitic". It became a municipality in 1914.

Agriculture included 6,901 hectares, most of which had been irrigated via pumping from wells. Main crops are alfalfa, beans, corn, grapes, sorghum, and the production of fodder for the farm animals industry. Cattle raising is likewise important with over 30,000 head counted in. Since this municipality has approximately one hundred seventy kilometers of shoreline there may be additionally fishing, specially within the settlements of Puerto Libertad and Desemboque. The Mexican energy generation parastatal CFE has a massive electric powered plant at Puerto Libertad.