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| Atil | |
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 Mission San Francisco de Atil | |
  AtilLocation in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 30°50′37″N 111°35′1″W / 30.84361°N 111.58361°W / 30.84361; -111.58361 | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Sonora |
| Municipality | Atil |
| Founded | 1751 |
| Area | |
| • City | 400.43 km (154.61 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • City | 734 |
| • Metro | 699 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Pacific (US Mountain)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (No DST) |
Atil (also Átil) is a small town in Atil Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora. The total area is 400.43 km² and the population of the municipality was 734 in 2005, of whom 699 lived in the municipal seat (2000). Neighboring municipalities are Tubutama, Trincheras, Oquitoa, and Altar.
History
The first inhabitants were Pima Alto or Nebome Indians, who before conversion had led a nomadic or semi-nomadic life. It is said that Atil means "Arrow Point", in the Pima language.
The town was founded in 1687 as a Jesuit mission called Los Siete Príncipes del Átil (The Seven Archangels of Átil). It was intermittently a visita of Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama, and had Mission San Antonio Paduano de Oquitoa as a visita.
Some buildings were constructed by Jesuit missionary Jacobo Sedelmayer. The name of the mission was changed to San Francisco de Átil when the Franciscans arrived in 1768.
Missionaries
Missionaries stationed in Atil included:
- Ignaz Pfefferkorn (1756–1762)
- José Haffenrichter (1761–1762)
- Francisco Xavier Villarroya (1763)
- José Neve (1765)
- José Pío Laguna (1765–?)
- José Soler (1768–1774)
- Felipe Guillén (1773–1778)
- José María Espinosa (1773–1775)
- Juan P. Gorgol (1773–1787)
- Tomás Eixarch (1776–1781)
- Félix Gamarra (1777–1779)
- Juan Bautista Llorens (1787–1790)
- Francisco Moyano (1790–1817)
- Clemente Moreno (1789)
- Francisco Antonio Barbastro (1789)
- Pedro Amorós (1796)
- Ramón López (1797–1798)
- José Gómez (1797–1798)
Geography
Atil is one of the smallest municipalities in the state.
The terrain is desert and mostly flat. Summer temperatures average 25.6 °C but daytime extremes are frequently above 40 °C. The winter average is 12.8 °C.
There is one tarmacked road crossing the municipality linking Altar with Tubutama. There are several dirt roads crossing the desert.
Economy
The economy is based primarily on agriculture with lands irrigated by the Cuauhtémoc Reservoir located in the north of the municipality. Cattle raising is also practised.
References
- "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México : ESTADO DE SONORA". Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- Classen, Albrecht (2013). Early History of the Southwest Through the Eyes of German-speaking Jesuit Missionaries: A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-7391-7784-6.
- ^ Roca, Paul M. (1967). Paths of the Padres Through Sonora: An Illustrated History & Guide to Its Spanish Churches. Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. pp. 108–110. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- Eckhart, George B. (1960). "A Guide to the History of the Missions of Sonora, 1614-1826". Arizona and the West. 2 (2): 165–183. ISSN 0004-1408.
Other sources
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia, e Informática (INEGI)
External links
- Atil, Ayuntamiento Digital (Official WebSite of Atil, Sonora)