Cajeme

Cajeme is one of the 72 municipalities of the northwestern state of Sonora, Mexico. It is named after Cajemé, a Yaqui leader. The municipality has an area of 3,312.05 km² (1,278.79 sq mi) and with a population of 433,050 inhabitants as of 2015.^[1]

History

Yaqui tribes settled in the region at approximately 1100 and in 1533 had the first contact with the Spanish conquistadors, when Diego de Guzmán arrived at the Yaqui region. The Yaquis defeated the Spanish army. In the 17th century Jesuit missionaries visited the zone to evangelize the Yaqui natives in 1617. In 1619, one of the missionaries, Martín Burgencio founded the villa of Buenavista and later the villa of Cumuripa. In 1715 El Realito was founded, which is located in the northern region of the current municipio). In the 19th century agriculture developed at the villas of Cumuripa, Buenavista and Cócorit.

Buenavista was the site for the military base of San Carlos de Buenavista during the Spanish colony. It was considered the capital of the Villa de Salvación since 1820 and in the second half of the 19th century it was considered part of the Guaymas district, as well as part of the Yaqui pueblos.

The first inhabitants of Ciudad Obregón established at the Plano Oriente neighborhood when irrigation systems by the Richardson company started functioning in 1910. The train Sudpacífico established a station they called Cajeme. Cajeme then was a part of the municipio of Cócorit until it became the capital of the municipio on November 29, 1927. On July 28, 1928, Ciudad Obregón was declared as name for the town previously known as Cajeme and that it would become the capital of the municipio of Cajeme. Previously Cócorit had been dependent on the district of Buenavista during the independent period. According to a law from 1828 for the indigenous governments it was established as a capital of one of their government divisions. On December 26, 1930 it was annexed to the Cajeme municipality.

Important towns

Government

Municipal presidents

Term	Municipal president	Political party	Note
1927-1928^[2]	Ignacio Ruiz
1928-1929	Ignacio Mondaca H.
1929-1930	Gustavo Dolores Cuevas
1930-1931	Flavio F. Bórquez
1931-1932	Viviano Martínez
1932-1932	Vicente Mexía L.
1932-1933	Manuel López Rivera
1933-1935	Manuel M. Escamilla	PNR
1935-1935	Antonio Salmón	PNR
1935-1937	Matías Méndez Limón	PLM
1937-1937	Francisco Urbalejo	PNR
1937-1937	Felipe Ruiz	PNR
16/09/1937-03/04/1938^[3]	Wistano García	PNR
03/04/1938-15/04/1938	Félix Verduzco	PRM
15/04/1938-28/11/1938	Manuel Aguirre	PRM
29/11/1938-16/09/1939	Rafael A. Guirado	PRM
1939-1940	Ramón M. Real	PRM
1940-1940	Ignacio E. García	PRM
1940-1941	Faustino Félix Gastélum	PRM
1941-1943	Abelardo B. Sobarzo	PRM
1943-1946	Heriberto Salazar S.	PRM
1946-1949	Vicente Padilla Hernández	PRI
1949-1952	Miguel Guerrero Verduzco	PRI
1952-1955	Rodolfo Elías Calles	PRI
1955-1958	René Gándara Romo	PRI
1958-1958	Antonio Valdez C.	PRI	Acting municipal president
1958-1961	J. Encarnación Chávez	PRI
1961-1964	Faustino Félix Serna	PRI
1964-1967	Ángel López Gutiérrez	PRI
1967-1970	Javier Robinson-Bours Almada	PRI
1970-1970	Rubén H. Meza	PRI	Acting municipal president
1970-1970	Luis Antillón Peñúñuri	PRI	Acting municipal president
1970-1970	José Romano Félix	PRI	Acting municipal president
1970-1972	Carlos López Arias	PRI
1972-1973	Alonso Hernando Pola	PRI
1973-1976	Rodolfo León Manzo	PRI
1976-1979	Óscar Russo Vogel	PRI
1979-1982	Adalberto Rosas López	PAN
1982-1985	Eduardo Estrella Acedo	PRI
1985-1988	Sóstenes Valenzuela Miller	PRI
1988-1991	Armando Jesús Félix Holguín	PRI
1991-1993	Faustino Félix Escalante	PRI
1993-1994	Sergio Gastélum de la Vega	PRI
1994-1997	Raúl Ayala Candelas	PRI
1997-2000	Carlos Javier Lamarque Cano	PRD
2000-2003	Ricardo Bours Castelo	PRI
2003-2006	Armando Jesús Félix Holguín	PAN
2006-2009^[4]	Francisco Villanueva Salazar	PRI Panal	Alliance PRI Sonora-Panal
2009-2012	Manuel Barro Borgaro	PAN
2012-2015	Rogelio Díaz-Brown Ramsburgh	PRI
2015-2018	Faustino Félix Chávez	PRI
2018-2021	Sergio Pablo Mariscal	Morena
2021-	Carlos Javier Lamarque Cano	Morena

References

^ "Número de habitantes. Sonora". cuentame.inegi.org.mx.
^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Estado de Sonora. Cajeme" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 Feb 2021.
^ Mexía Alvarado, Miguel, Cajeme de Ayer, Tercera Edición, Centro de Estudios Históricos del Municipio de Cajeme “Miguel Mexía Alvarado”, A.C./Flash Printers, Hermosillo, 1997, p. 136.
^ "Resultados oficiales. Proceso electoral 2006" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Estatal Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana Sonora. IEESonora. Retrieved 25 July 2021.

Sources

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Sonora Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

External links

(in Spanish) Sitio Oficial de Cajeme Official website
(in Spanish) History of Cajeme at the site of the tourism office of the state of Sonora.
History of Cajeme at the official site of the municipio.
(in Spanish) Noticias, fotos, videos, clasificados, empresas y eventos en Ciudad Obregón
(in Spanish) OCV Ciudad Obregón Official Convention and Visitors Bureau]

27°29′47.4″N 109°55′57.1″W / 27.496500°N 109.932528°W / 27.496500; -109.932528 (Cajeme)

[1] "Número de habitantes. Sonora". cuentame.inegi.org.mx.

[auto-2] "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Estado de Sonora. Cajeme" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 Feb 2021.

[3] Mexía Alvarado, Miguel, Cajeme de Ayer, Tercera Edición, Centro de Estudios Históricos del Municipio de Cajeme “Miguel Mexía Alvarado”, A.C./Flash Printers, Hermosillo, 1997, p. 136.

[4] "Resultados oficiales. Proceso electoral 2006" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Estatal Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana Sonora. IEESonora. Retrieved 25 July 2021.

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