Huépac
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thumb|right | Ruins in HuépacHuepac is the seat of a Huépac Municipality in the center of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is 317.37 km2 with a population of 1,142 registered in 2000. Most of the inhabitants live in the municipal seat.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1644 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Jesuit history in North America and Missions in Sonora.
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- Mexico
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- Huépac Municipality
- Capital of
- Huépac Municipality
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thumb|right | Ruins in HuépacHuepac is the seat of a Huépac Municipality in the center of the Mexican state of Sonora. The municipal area is 317.37 km2 with a population of 1,142 registered in 2000. Most of the inhabitants live in the municipal seat.
Huépac was founded in 1644 by the Jesuit missionary Gerónimo de la Canal with the name of San Lorenzo de Güepaca. Its name comes from the Ópata Indian word, Güepaca, which means big valley; from Güe big and paca, valley in Ópata. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070609150520/http://www.sonoraturismo.gob.mx/huepac-sonora.htm
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huépac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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