Ures is a small city and a municipality in the Mexican stateofSonora.
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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 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 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 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 the course of his 1540 expedition.[1] It was founded in 1644 as a mission by the Jesuit missionary Francisco París,[2][3] 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 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 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 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.
Municipal president
Term
Political party
Notes
Adeodato Campbell Quijada
1868
Fernando M. Araiza[4]
1913–1914
Ernesto Estrella
1914–1915
Victoriano Navarro
1915
Alfredo Romo
1916
F. J. Morales
1917
Constantino Laborín
1920–1922
Jesús Casillas
1922–1923
Santiago Muñoz
1923–1929
Luis S. Navarro
1929–1931
Victoriano Navarro
1931
PNR 
Acting municipal president
Luis Haro
1931–1932
PNR
Jesús Núñez D.
1932–1933
PNR
Rafael Puebla
1933
PNR
Acting municipal president
Miguel Canizales Bonilla
1933–1935
PNR
Manuel J. Duarte
1935
PNR
Acting municipal president
Pedro López P.
1935–1937
PNR
Antonio Arce
1937
PNR
Acting municipal president
Rafael Puebla
1937–1940
PNR
PRM 
Anselmo Gándara
1940–1943
PRM
Reynaldo Paz Molinares
1943–1946
PRM
Jesús Noriega Calles
1946–1949
Alfredo Romo Córdova
1949–1952
PRI 
Rubén Romo Córdova
1952–1955
PRI
Francisco Amador Torres
1955–1958
PRI
Antonio Gándara Romo
1958–1961
PRI
Héctor Maytorena Salcido
1961–1964
PRI
Moisés Navarro Duarte
1964–1967
PRI
Francisco Téllez Villaescusa
1967–1970
PRI
Abel Estrella Bustamante
1970–1973
PRI
Héctor Romo Córdova
1973–1976
PRI
Guadalupe Trujillo Romo
1976–1979
PRI
Óscar Jara Ramírez
1979–1982
PRI
Eduardo A. de los Reyes Gray
1982–1985
PRI
Marco Antonio Romo Aguilar
1985–1988
PRI
Eduardo Salcido Celaya
1988–1991
PRI
Jorge Alberto Gastélum[5]
1991–1994
PRI
Ramón Mario López Córdova[6]
1994–1997
PRI
Manuel Ignacio Espinoza González[7]
1997–2000
Arnoldo Trujillo Fuentes[8]
2000–2003
PRI
16-09-2003–15-09-2006
PRI
16-09-2006–15-09-2009
PRI 
Panal 
Alliance PRI Sonora-Panal
Noé Coronado Cha[13]
16-09-2009–15-09-2012
José Manuel Valenzuela Salcido[14]
16-09-2012–15-09-2015
PAN 
David Gracia Paz[15]
16-09-2015–15-09-2018
PRI
PVEM 
Panal
Coalition "For an Honest and Effective Government"
Héctor Gastón Rodríguez Galindo[16]
16-09-2018–15-09-2021
PAN PRD 
Coalition "For Sonora to the Front"
José Manuel Valenzuela Salcido[17]
16-09-2021–
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