- Trincheras
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subdivision_name1 =Sonora
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leader_name =Gildardo Bejarano Yescas
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footnotes =Trincheras is a town, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the north-west of the
Mexican state ofSonora . It was founded in 1775 byBernardo de Urrea .Trincheras was named for El Cerro de Trincheras, a nearby archaeological site. This site is also the namesake of a distinctive type of archaeological site found in the desert basins of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Remains of hillside terraces and walls reminded early explorers of "trincheras," the Spanish term for entrenchments or fortifications [ [http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/heisey/heisey2.shtml What is a Trincheras Site? - Online Exhibit - In Flight: Adriel Heisey's Images of Trincheras Archaeology ] ] .
The municipal area is 3,764.26 sq. km. and the population in 2000 was 1,788. The main economic activities are cattle raising (21,000 head in 2000) and subsistence farming.
= Notes =External links
* [http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/sonora/municipios/26064a.htm Trincheras, Sonora] "(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)"
* [http://www.sonora.gob.mx/portal/Runscript.asp?p=ASPpg233.asp Trincheras] (Sonora State Govt.)
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