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Ciudad Obregón
Ciudad Obregon is the county seat of Cajeme, is the second city in size and importance of the State of Sonora (Mexico). It is a city whose main economic activity is agriculture, which is carried out extensively in the Yaqui Valley is located south of the city, with one of the largest irrigation systems in the country. People from Ciudad Obregon Sonora are understood by the SpanishMexican Idoma

population
According to the results of the Population and Housing Census 2010 of the INEGI, has 298.625 inhabitants Obregón. Meanwhile Cajeme municipality has 409.310 inhabitants.
















Geography
It is located south of the state, 50 km from the coast of the Sea of Cortez and 115 km of high mountains (above 1500 m), 240km far from Hermosillo, the statecapital.
The coordinates are 27 ° 29 'north latitude and 109 ° 59' west longitude. With an altitude above sea level of 40.8 m in the center.





























History

The origins of the city date back to 1906 when the railway company Sud Pacific Railroad reached this area Yaqui this way, enabled the incorporaión of Yaqui and Mayo valleys to domesticand foreign markets, attracting a wave of investors and settlers gave rise to populations such as Cajeme.
In 1907 he established a flag station for the train that would cater across the state of water at this station was called Cajeme. Cajeme is the name of a Yaqui leader (whose population lives in this area) who fought against them as part of the Porfirian army, and then lead the Yaqui rebellionagainst Porfirio Diaz himself.
"Cajeme station was in charge of North American Bert Cameron, superintendent, and Emilio Star, station master. They and their families were the first settlers. Shortly after the Cowboys came to care for livestock pens from here was sent to other regions. Soon neighbors came Esperanza, near cultivated fields in the Valley "². The Yaquis resisted before the arrival ofthe first settlers to their lands cajemenses.

The first quarter was called Plano East. In 1923 he installed 'Cajeme Motors' owned American James Huffaker, was the first automobile agency, a fact which contributed significantly to the development of Cajeme. In concluding his term as president of the country (1920-1924), General Alvaro Obregon Sonora returns and conducts business projects inNavojoa and Cajeme, created in 1925, the company 'Obregón and Co.', which provided additional development work and economic in the region.
On November 29, 1927 was declared head of municipality (until then had been Cócorit) by Governor Fausto Topete, and in 1928 the year in which you install the first council, decreed (July 28) the change of name to Ciudad Obregon in recognition of Álvaro Obregón.That same year the first printing press was installed and where it was printed was the first weekly news called The Pacific Gazette ', owned by Lithuanian immigrant Leo Rosenfeld and his wife Virginia Gámez.
The first colonies were Plano East, Ladrillera, Cumuripa, Hidalgo, Constitution, El Castillo, Fifth Diaz, Bella Vista and Colonia del Valle.
Rice was the most important crop in the YaquiValley in the early twentieth century, among other crops were also wheat, beans, garbanzo beans, various vegetables and alfalfa. With the passing of the century, the wheat crop became the most important. Because the agricultural vocation of Cajeme, the first major industry were rice mills.
In the '50s the agricultural scientist Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize (called the Father of the GreenRevolution for his work in agricultural research) farm in the valley jo developing improved varieties of wheat.
In the late twentieth century disappeared rail as a means of transportation for passengers and the station was abandoned.

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The area between Ciudad Obregon and surroundings is called area foothills within subdivisions held for the Sonoran Desert (Desert is a transition zone...