Navojoa Municipality

Navojoa is a municipality in the state of Sonora in north-western Mexico.^[2] As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 163,650.^[1] The municipal seat is the city of Navojoa.

Navojoa
Municipality
Location of the municipality in Sonora
Country	Mexico
State	Sonora
Seat	Navojoa
Population  (2015)
• Total	163,650[1]
Time zone	UTC-7 (Zona Pacífico)

Demographics

Navojoa is the fifth-largest municipality in Sonora (after Hermosillo, Cajeme, Nogales and San Luis Río Colorado) with a population of 163,650 as of 2015.^[1]

Geography

Borders

Winged Victory

The municipality shares its boundaries with Cajeme and Quiriego in the north, with Álamos in the east, with Huatabampo in the southwest and with Etchojoa in the west.

Localities

Other towns, near the municipal seat are San Ignacio Cohuirimpo, Guadalupe, Guayparin, Tetanchopo, Santa María del Bauraje, Agiabampo, Masiaca, Bacabachi, and Pueblo Viejo.

Physical geography

The region lies in the valley of the Mayo River, which crosses it from the northeast to the southwest.

Transport

Transportation through the municipality is carried out by highway, railway, and airplane. Federal Highway 15 crosses the region from the northeast to the southeast. There is also an extensive network of tarmacked roads, connecting the municipal seat with the agricultural communities in the Mayo valley. The railway runs parallel to the national highway crossing the region. There is a regional airport in the municipal seat.

Government

Municipal presidents

Term	Municipal president	Political party	Notes
1915–1916[3][4]	Alejandro Velderráin Campoy
1916–1918	Demetrio Esquer
1918	Roque J. Ibarra
1918	Inocente C. Amparán
1918–1919	Ricardo Chávez
1919–1920	Ignacio L. Gómez
1920–1921	Francisco F. Ortiz
1921–1922	Román Yocupicio Valenzuela
1922–1923	Leobardo Tellechea
1923–1924	Medardo Tellechea
1924–1925	Jesús L. Almada
1925	José Goycolea Gil
1925–1926	Francisco Amparán
1926–1927	Heroldo C. Bórquez
1927	Rafael Vizcarra
1927–1928	Porfirio Yepiz
1928–1929	Juan J. Castillo
1929–1931	Onécimo J. Aguilera	PNR
1931–1932	Francisco Viscarra	PNR
1932–1933	Tomás Siqueiros	PNR
1933–1935	Juan Bautista Muñoz	PNR
1935	Miguel Mendívil	PNR
1935–1937	Pascual Contreras	PNR
1937–1939	Crisóforo M. Vázquez	PNR PRM
1941–1943	Gerardo Romero	PRM
1943–1944	Benito Bernal	PRM
1944–1946	Alejo Aguilera Rojas	PRM
1946–1949	Tomás Siqueiros	PRI
1949–1952	Jorge R. Ibarra	PRI
1952–1955	Carlos González Agraz	PRI
1955–1958	Gerardo Campoy Campoy	PRI
1958–1961	Rafael J. Almada	PRI
1961–1964	Filiberto Cruz Mendívil	PRI
1964–1966	Servando Monsiváis M.	PRI
1966–1967	Roberto Talamante C.	PRI
1967–1970	Luis Salido Quiroz	PRI
1970–1973	Julio Martínez Bracamontes	PRI
1973–1975	Samuel Ocaña García	PRI
1975–1976	José de J. Dow Almada	PRI
1976–1979	Daniel Acosta Cázares	PRI
1979	Ángel R. Bours	PRI	Acting municipal president
1979	Ovidio Pereyda García	PRI	Acting municipal president
1979–1982	Luis Salido Ibarra	PRI
1982–1985	Alfonso Rocha Moya	PRI
1985–1988	Arturo León Lerma	PRI
1988–1991	José Antonio Urbina Sánchez	PRI
1991–1994	Ángel Robinson Bours Urrea	PRI
1994–1997	Arsenio Duarte Murrieta	PRI
1997–2000	Rafael Carlos Quiroz Narváez	PRD
2000–2003	José Guadalupe Curiel	PRD
2003–2006	Gustavo Mendívil Amparán	PRI
2006–2009[5]	Onésimo Mariscales Delgadillo	PRI Panal	Alliance PRI Sonora-Panal
2009–2012[6]	José Abraham Mendívil López	PRI PVEM Panal
2012–2015	Alberto Natanael Guerrero López	PRI PVEM
2015–23-03-2018	Raúl Augusto Silva Vela	PAN	He applied for a leave in order to seek the PAN candidacy for the 7th federal electoral district of Sonora
24-03-2018–15-09-2018[7][8]	Leticia Navarro Duarte	PAN	Acting municipal president
16-09-2018–2021[9]	María del Rosario Quintero Borbón	PT Morena PES	Coalition "Together We Will Make History"
2021–20-01-2023[10]	Mario Martín Martínez Bojórquez	Morena	Died in office[11]
09-02-2023–2024[12]	Jorge Alberto Elías Retes	Morena	Acting municipal president
2024–[13]	Jorge Alberto Elías Retes	Morena PVEM PT Panal Sonora PES Sonora

Economy

One quarter of the municipality (1,160 km²) is occupied by irrigated agricultural lands, growing wheat, corn, soybeans, and garden vegetables.

There is also large production of swine and poultry. Navojoa produces almost half of the state production in these areas. The cattle herd had over 30,000 head according to the 2000 census.

Industry is modest, although there are one beer factory, owned by Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma / Heineken, and a cardboard packing factory named Celulosa y Corrugados de Sonora, S.A. de C.V.