Chinapa
(Redirected from Mission San José de Chinapa)
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (May 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Chinapa | |
|---|---|
 Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a Catholic church in Chinapa | |
 | |
| Coordinates: 30°26′15″N 110°02′00″E / 30.43750°N 110.03333°E | |
| Population | |
| • Total | 139[1] |
Chinapa (from Opata Chinopa, meaning "place of the cascalotes") is a village in Arizpe Municipality in the central-northern region of the Mexican state of Sonora, near the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sonora River.
History
[edit]San José de Chinapa was founded in 1648 by Jesuit missionaries, as a visita of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Arizpe.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020". www.inegi.org.mx. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Ives, Ronald L. (1948). "The Sonoran Census of 1730". Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. 59 (4): 319–339. ISSN 0002-7790. Retrieved 29 April 2024.