Hermosillo
| City of Hermosillo Ciudad Hermosillo |
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| Nickname(s): La Ciudad del Sol (The City of the Sun) | |||
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| Country | Mexico | ||
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| State | Sonora | ||
| Founded | 1741 (Age: 267 years) | ||
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| - Mayor | Raymundo García de León (  PRI) |
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| Population (2005) | |||
| - Total | 701,838 inh. | ||
| Time zone | Mountain Time (UTC-7) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | Daylight Time does not apply (UTC) | ||
| Website: http://www.hermosillo.gob.mx | |||
Hermosillo, formerly named Santísima Trinidad del Pitic (Holy Trinity of Pitic) is the largest city and capital of the Mexican state of Sonora, and is located in the center of the state, 167 miles from the border with the United States.
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Hermosillo is centrally located within the state at and is within several hundred miles of several other major Mexican cities, such as Tijuana and Mexicali, and U.S. cities such as Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona.
According to the results of the INEGI 2005 census, the city had 641,791 inhabitants and the municipality had 701,838 inhabitants.
Much of the population growth of the city is due to the heavy industrialization that has came to the city, especially due to large investments in the automotive industry and its suppliers[citation needed].
Here are some historical data of the population of the town and municipality of Hermosillo.
1990: City, 406,417 hab; Municipality, 448,966 (Population Census). 1995: City, 504,009, Municipality, 559,154 (First Count). 2000: Municipality, 609,829. 2005: City, 641,791, Municipality, 701,838.
In this way, the annual growth rate during the last period for the city was 3.13% and 2.5% of the municipality. Because of this the city of Hermosillo is one of the cities with the highest population growth in Mexico, only behind Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Reynosa and San Juan del Rio[citation needed].
The weather is extremely hot, sometimes exceeding 113 °F (45 °C) in the summer. The record is 118 °F (48 °C),[citation needed] which has been achieved several times, most recently on July 10, 1998.[citation needed] Winter in Hermosillo goes from very cool to cold in January and February, its lowest temperature, 25 °F (−4 °C), was registered on January 13, 1971.[citation needed] The lowest temperature in 2007 was 28 °F (−2 °C) in January-December.[citation needed]
 Weather averages for Hermosillo  |
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34 (93) |
37 (99) |
39 (102) |
43 (109) |
46 (115) |
48 (118) |
47 (117) |
46 (115) |
46 (115) |
44 (111) |
39 (102) |
35 (95) |
48 (118) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 24 (75) |
26 (79) |
28 (82) |
32 (90) |
36 (97) |
41 (106) |
40 (104) |
39 (102) |
37 (99) |
34 (93) |
28 (82) |
25 (77) |
33 (91) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 9 (48) |
11 (52) |
12 (54) |
15 (59) |
18 (64) |
23 (73) |
26 (79) |
25 (77) |
24 (75) |
19 (66) |
13 (55) |
10 (50) |
17 (63) |
| Record low °C (°F) | -2 (28) |
0 (32) |
4 (39) |
7 (45) |
9 (48) |
11 (52) |
17 (63) |
14 (57) |
17 (63) |
9 (48) |
2 (36) |
-4 (25) |
-4 (25) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 17 (0.67) |
16 (0.63) |
6 (0.24) |
3 (0.12) |
3 (0.12) |
4 (0.16) |
80 (3.15) |
83 (3.27) |
52 (2.05) |
19 (0.75) |
13 (0.51) |
23 (0.91) |
320 (12.6) |
| Source: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional[1] 2008.06.08 | |||||||||||||
Industry is an important part of the city's economy. 114 companies have plants in the city, employing thousands of workers[citation needed]. Ford Motor Company has a plant there, assembling the Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ, and the Mercury Milan. A major expansion of the plant was recently completed. This plant had formerly built the Ford Escort, Mercury Tracer, and other models. The city is served by Ignacio L. Pesqueira International Airport whose airport code is HMO.
Commerce in Hermosillo is in bloom, with nearly a dozen of medium-sized commercial areas[citation needed].
Centered on the Plaza Zaragoza, Hermosillo's origin traces back to 1700, when several villages were founded on lands previously inhabited by Native Americans. The official foundation of the city comes in 1741 by orders of the Viceroy of New Spain to create "El presidio de Pitic." In 1783 it came to be named the Villa de Pitic, but on September 5, 1828, it was renamed Hermosillo in honor of general José María González de Hermosillo who in 1810 fought for the independence of Mexico in the state of Sinaloa. On April 26, 1879, the city was named the capital of Sonora, and that declaration was confirmed in article 28 of the state constitution, written on September 15, 1917.
The latter half of the 1800s were turbulent years for the city – on October 14, 1852, Gaston Rousset Boulbon led anti-government fighters to victory against the national army, but soon left the city. On May 4, 1866, republican troops under Ángel Martínez took the city from imperial forces under Jose María Tranquilino Almada. Just a few hours later, however, the imperialists retook the city. Later that year, a similar capturing and recapturing of the city occurred. Even during this time, the city continued developing – on November 4, 1881, a rail line between Hermosillo and the city of Guaymas went into operation, and by the end of the 19th century, the city had a population of 14,000 and thriving commerce and agriculture.
During the Mexican Revolution, Hermosillo was the capital of Mexico for five months, as it was the location of the meeting of Venustiano Carranza's war cabinet. Later, on November 18, 1915, the city was attacked by revolutionary Francisco Villa, but he was defeated.
As of the census of 2005 there were 641,791 people living in the city of Hermosillo and 701,838 people living in the municipality of Hermosillo.
As of 2005 the per capita income for the municipality of Hermosillo was $15,310 and the Human Development Index was 0.8912. [2]
The main highway serving Hermosillo is Mexican Federal Highway 15. Another important route is Sonora State Highway 100.
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Sonora Norte [1]
- Universidad de Sonora [2]
- Universidad de Hermosillo [3]
- Instituto Tecnologico de Hermosillo [4]
- Universidad Tecnológica de Hermosillo (UTH) [5]
- Centro de Estudios Tecnológicos (CETEC) [6]
- Instituto de Ciencias y Educación Superior [7]
- Universidad del Valle de México (formerly Universidad del Noroeste) [8]
- Universidad Kino [9]
- Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora (CESUES) [10]
- Universidad del Noroeste
- El Colegio de Sonora [11]
- Universidad TecMilenio, Campus Hermosillo
- Centro de Investigación en Alimentos y Desarrollo (CIAD) [12]
- Instituto de Capacitación para el Trabajo de Sonora (ICATSON) [13]
- Colegio Nacional de Capacitación Intensiva (CNCI) [14]
- Senda 2000 [15]
- Universidad del Desarrollo Profesional (UNIDEP) [16]
- Escuela Normal del Estado "Profr. Jesús Manuel Bustamante Mungarro" [17]
- Colegio Nacional de Educación Profesional Técnica (CONALEP) [18]
The city's baseball team is the Naranjeros de Hermosillo. The city had an American Basketball Association team, the Hermosillo Seris. On January 26, 2007 the Naranjeros won their 14th title in history, the team with the most titles in the Mexican Pacific League (LMP).
- Bill Meléndez, Animator.
- Jesús Salvador Larios Ibarra, National Action Party Founder (PAN).
Hermosillo has two sister cities:[3]
- Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
- Sonora Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
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- ^ Oficina Nacional de Desarrollo Humano (2005). "IDH Municipal 2000-2005 base de datos". Retrieved on 2008-12-17.
- ^ Sister Cities information obtained from the Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI)." Retrieved on June 10, 2006.
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- (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Hermosillo Official website
- (Spanish) Instituciones de Educación Superior Official website
- Hermosillo tourist information, Sonora State Government Official website
- CityMayors' profile of Hermosillo mayor
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