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Soyopa
Soyopa ( Yaqui: "hot land") is a town in Soyopa Municipality, in the eastern region of the Mexican state of Sonora. The elevation is 350 meters.
The main economic activities are cattle raising (16,000 head in 2000), agriculture (rye, sorghum, wheat), and mining.
Silver was mined here beginning in the eighteenth century and the town had its economic heyday around 1880. After that the silver mines ran out and the population declined.
Soyopa (municipality)
Soyopa Municipality is a municipality in Sonora in north-western Mexico.
The municipal area is 846.33 km. and the population was 1,649 in 2000.
Neighboring municipalities are:
- Northeast: Bacanora
- South: Onavas
- Southwest: San Javier
- West: La Colorada
- Northwest: Villa Pesqueira