Guazapares Municipality

Guazapares
Municipality
Municipality of Guazapares in Chihuahua
Municipality of Guazapares in Chihuahua
Guazapares is located in Mexico
Guazapares
Guazapares
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 27°16′31″N 108°16′40″W / 27.27528°N 108.27778°W / 27.27528; -108.27778
Country Mexico
StateChihuahua
Municipal seatTémoris
Area
 • Total
2,145.8 km2 (828.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total
8,998

Guazapares is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Témoris. The municipality covers an area of 2,145.8 km2.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,998,[1] up from 8,010 as of 2005.[2]

The municipality had 492 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Témoris (2,053), classified as rural.[1]

History

As a pueblo, Guazapares was home to the Guazapare people,[3] a tribal group who spoke a dialect of the Tarahumara language.[4] After Jesuit missionaries Julio Pascual and Manuel Martinez were killed in a 1632 uprising, Pedro de Perea [es] led a punitive expedition against native groups including the Guazapare, killing about 800 natives. The surviving Guazapare were reduced into the Jesuit missions.[5]

Geography

Towns and villages

The municipality has 352 localities. The largest are:

Name Population (2005)
Témoris 1,639
Santa Matilde 301
Hormigueros 189
Estación Témoris 133
Total Municipality 8,010

References

  1. ^ a b "Guazapares". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Guazapares". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved September 28, 2008.
  3. ^ Also transcribed as Guacapane, Guacapare, Guarapare, Guasapare, Guasapari, Guaspare, Guazapari, or Gucapari
  4. ^ Thomas, Cyrus. Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical Distribution. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8466-4042-4. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  5. ^ Barr, Juliana; Countryman, Edward (7 March 2014). Contested Spaces of Early America. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 130–131. ISBN 978-0-8122-0933-4.


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