Ures is a small city and a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora .
14-491: In the year 2000, the total population was 9,553 residents. New figures from 2005 reported 8,420, meaning a considerable decline in population due to emigration. The municipal seat had a population of 3,959 in 2000. It has an area of 2,618.56 square kilometers. This is 1.41% of the total area of the state, and 0.13 percent of the national area of Mexico. Besides the seat, the most important localities are Guadalupe de Ures, San Pedro, Pueblo de Alamos and El Sauz. The municipality
28-479: Is in the basin of the Sonora River . As the river crosses the area, the river receives waters from Los Alamos, Bamuco, Nava, San Pedro, Cañada de Agua, and Los Cochis. Also, it receives runoff from washes as El Carrizo, Zuribate, Palo Parado, La Ladrillera, Santiago, and El Pescado. It has a reservoir that was recently built called Teópari. The municipality is nestled within the mountains, hills, and valleys that form
42-520: The Gulf of California . The Sonora River watershed covers 10,040 square miles (26,000 km ) of public land. Slopes range from steep orientations in the upper part of the watershed to more gradual topographies in the valleys. The Sonora River watershed is subdivided into six smaller watersheds. Biotic communities found within the watershed in order of importance by the area covered are the Sinaloan thornscrub,
56-482: The course of his 1540 expedition. It was founded in 1644 as a mission by the Jesuit missionary Francisco París, and was known as San Miguel de Ures until 1665. In 1823 Ures became the capital of Sonora , but was replaced the following year when Sonora was merged into Occidente State . At the end of 1838, Ures became a city; and was the capital of Sonora from 1838 to 1842, and again from 1847 to 1879. Afterwards, it became
70-499: The edge of the Western Sierra Madre. The elevation of the administrative seat was 420 meters above sea level. The average maximum monthly temperature is 31.8 °C (89.2 °F) in the month of July, the average minimum monthly temperature is 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in the month of January, and the overall average temperature is 23.1 °C (73.6 °F). The annual precipitation is 430.1 millimetres (16.93 in), and
84-793: The fauna and trees of the boundary between Mexico and the United States in his 1907 Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States . In 1909 he retired from the army with a rank of a lieutenant colonel . Later that year Theodore Roosevelt invited Mearns to accompany the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition as naturalist. From 1911 to 1912 he was a member of the Childs Frick expedition in Africa to collect and prepare specimens of birds that Frick later presented to
98-553: The military as a surgeon. From 1899 to 1903, he was a medical officer in several army institutions. From 1903 to 1904 and from 1905 to 1907, he traveled to the Philippines; he had to interrupt his journey in 1904 because he came down with a parasitic disease. In 1905 a trip led him to Guam . As major and surgeon in the army, Mearns was appointed medical officer to the International Boundary Commission; he reported on
112-524: The plains of Sonora subdivision, semidesert grasslands, the Madrean evergreen woodland, and the central gulf coast subdivision. Average annual precipitation is 375 millimetres (14.8 in) which occurs in two seasons, late summer-early fall and winter-early spring. Physician naturalist Edgar Alexander Mearns ' 1907 report of beaver ( Castor canadensis ) on the Sonora River may be the southernmost extent of
126-468: The priest Echevería was killed in the town, and in 1882, when the distinguished scholar Leocadio Salcedo was killed at the La Noria ranch. Residents of the region also had problems with Yaqui uprisings and insurrections of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Ures you can visit “La Plaza de Armas(La Plaza de Zaragoza)” with its four 18th-century bronze sculptures, San Miguel Mission and the church bearing
140-465: The rainiest months are July and August. There are occasional frosts from December to March. The vegetation is of mesquite and subtropical desert species. A paved federal highway crosses the municipality from west to east. Ures is one of the oldest cities of the state of Sonora. It was first reported by Cabeza de Vaca on his overland trek from Galveston in the 1530s and was called by him "Corazones", or "Village of Hearts". Coronado stopped there in
154-687: The range of this North American aquatic mammal. This article related to a river in Mexico is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Edgar Alexander Mearns Edgar Alexander Mearns (September 11, 1856 – November 1, 1916) was an American surgeon , ornithologist and field naturalist . He was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union . Mearns was born in Highland Falls, New York , to Alexander and Nancy Reliance Mearns (née Clarswell). His grandfather Alexander
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#1732852402443168-556: The same name with its legendary mesquite stairway. In addition, you will see the majestic arch commemorating the Independence and the house where General Pesqueira used to live, The Folkloric Museum, and the old Flour Mill. Sonora River Río Sonora ( Sonora River ) is a 402-kilometer-long river of Mexico . It lies on the Pacific slope of the Mexican state of Sonora and it runs into
182-658: The seat of a district. During the Fall of the Second Mexican Empire in 1866, the Battle of Guadalupe took place within the municipality of Ures. On September 5, 1998, the state legislature gave it the title of Heroic City, commemorating the liberal defense against imperialists. [1] . Geronimo took refuge in the mountains of this region when generals Crook and Miles fought him in Arizona. The most notable Apache raids were in 1870, when
196-564: Was of Scottish origin and moved to Highland Falls in 1815. Edgar Mearns was educated at the Donald Highland Institute (Highland Falls). He attended the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons , graduating in 1881. In 1881, he married Ella Wittich of Circleville, Ohio . The couple had one son and one daughter. Their son was born in 1886 and died in 1912. Mearns became a doctor in the U.S. Army. From 1882 to 1899 he served
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