Atil, Sonora
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Atil | |
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 Mission San Francisco de Atil | |
  Atil Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 30°50′37″N 111°35′1″W / 30.84361°N 111.58361°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Sonora |
| Municipality | Atil |
| Founded | 1751 |
| Area | |
• City | 400.43 km2 (154.61 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
• City | 734 |
| • Metro | 699 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Pacific (US Mountain)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (No DST) |
Atil (also Átil) is a small town in Atil Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora. The total area is 400.43 km² and the population of the municipality was 734 in 2005, of whom 699 lived in the municipal seat (2000). Neighboring municipalities are Tubutama, Trincheras, Oquitoa, and Altar.
History
[edit]The first inhabitants were Pima Alto or Nebome Indians, who before conversion had led a nomadic or semi-nomadic life.[citation needed] It is said that Atil means "Arrow Point", in the Pima language.[1]
The town was founded in 1687[2] as a Jesuit mission called Los Siete Príncipes del Átil (The Seven Archangels of Átil). It was intermittently a visita of Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama, and had Mission San Antonio Paduano de Oquitoa as a visita.[3]
Some buildings were constructed by Jesuit missionary Jacobo Sedelmayer.[4] The name of the mission was changed to San Francisco de Átil when the Franciscans arrived in 1768.
Missionaries
[edit]Missionaries stationed in Atil included:[3]
- Ignaz Pfefferkorn (1756–1762)
- José Haffenrichter (1761–1762)
- Francisco Xavier Villarroya (1763)
- José Neve (1765)
- José Pío Laguna (1765–?)
- José Soler (1768–1774)
- Felipe Guillén (1773–1778)
- José María Espinosa (1773–1775)
- Juan P. Gorgol (1773–1787)
- Tomás Eixarch (1776–1781)
- Félix Gamarra (1777–1779)
- Juan Bautista Llorens (1787–1790)
- Francisco Moyano (1790–1817)
- Clemente Moreno (1789)
- Francisco Antonio Barbastro (1789)
- Pedro Amorós (1796)
- Ramón López (1797–1798)
- José Gómez (1797–1798)
Geography
[edit]Atil is one of the smallest municipalities in the state.
The terrain is desert and mostly flat. Summer temperatures average 25.6 °C but daytime extremes are frequently above 40 °C. The winter average is 12.8 °C.
There is one tarmacked road crossing the municipality linking Altar with Tubutama. There are several dirt roads crossing the desert.
Economy
[edit]The economy is based primarily on agriculture with lands irrigated by the Cuauhtémoc Reservoir located in the north of the municipality. Cattle raising is also practised.
References
[edit]- ^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México : ESTADO DE SONORA". Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ Classen, Albrecht (2013). Early History of the Southwest Through the Eyes of German-speaking Jesuit Missionaries: A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-7391-7784-6.
- ^ a b Roca, Paul M. (1967). Paths of the Padres Through Sonora: An Illustrated History & Guide to Its Spanish Churches. Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. pp. 108–110. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ Eckhart, George B. (1960). "A Guide to the History of the Missions of Sonora, 1614-1826". Arizona and the West. 2 (2): 165–183. ISSN 0004-1408.
Other sources
[edit]- Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia, e Informática (INEGI)
External links
[edit]- Atil, Ayuntamiento Digital (Official WebSite of Atil, Sonora)