Santa Ana, Sonora
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Santa Ana is a small city capital of the municipio of the same name in the Mexican state of Sonora. It is located 167 kilometers north of state capital Hermosillo and 100 kilometers south of Nogales on the United States border.
The attraction in Santa Ana is the Neo-Gothic styled Church built in the 1900's to honor Our Lady of Saint Ana. Every year during the month of July, the whole town celebrates the day of their Saint with a fair and dances.
[edit] History
This municipality originated when the Pimas (indigenous people in northwest Mexico) established it upon the arrival of the Jesuits in what today is called Santa Ana Viejo. The present town of Santa Ana was founded by Diego A. Moreno in the year 1883, when the Sonoran Railroad was being built in this area of the state. Santa Ana achieved the status of a municipality in 1935. Santa Ana has a population of approximately 25,000. It covers 1,620.65 square kilometers, representing 0.87% of the total area of the state.
[edit] Politics
The current presidents of this municipality:
- 1979 – 1982 Luis Camou Contreras
- 1982 – 1985 Ramón Rodolfo Ley Sánchez
- 1985 – 1988 Luis Felipe Galvez Moreno
- 1988 – 1991 Eduardo García Jiménez
- 1991 – 1994 Gildardo Vázquez Delgado
- 1994 – 1997 Miguel Angel Terán Parra
- 1997 – 2000 Luis Alfredo Bernal Ainza
- 2000 – 2003 María Elena Araiza Castro
- 2003 – 2006 Guillermo Adalberto Molina Arballo
- 2006 - 2009 Eduardo García Jiménez
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- Aerial image from TerraServer
- Satellite image from WikiMapia
