Villa Pesqueira

Villa Pesqueira Municipality is a town, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the central region of the Mexican state of Sonora. Municipal seat It was founded in 1629 by the missionary Martín de Azpilcueta as (San José de) Mátapa. The State Congress ordered the change to its current name, at the inhabitants' request, on 11 February 1867. Creation The municipality was created on 11 December 1930, with the division of its territory from the adjacent municipality of Ures Municipalit…