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Would it be acceptable to add a section relating to the immigrant situation on the northern border of Sonora? I feel that this is an important aspect of at least the northern portion of the state, and should have a mention... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.24.9.82 (talk • contribs)

c'mon. Kɔffeedrinksyou 17:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Town of Sonora

Does anyone know if there is also a town in Mexico of this name? Perhaps its just fiction, but in the song, "Sonora's Death Row":

Well the Mezcal is free in Amanda's saloon
For the boys from the old Broken O
Saturday nights in the town of Sonora
Are the best in all Mexico...[1]

-MrFizyx 19:17, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but there's one in California, and California used to be part of Mexico. --Node 09:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of name

Is Sonora of Spanish origin or from an aboriginal language? Just wanting to know for List of Placenames of Indigenous Origin in the Americas, which has a Mexico section (see Talk:List of Placenames of Indigenous Origin in the Americas.Skookum1 20:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of the name of Sonora

There are a lot of versions about the origin of the name of the State. Almost all of them talk about how the old american indians (Yaquis, mayos, Papagos, etc) couldn't pronounce the word Señora (Lady in inglish) a very used word from the explorers and missionaries that went up from the now called State of Sinaloa all of them Spanish from galician origin.

The spanishs Traveled up to those lands in search of the legendary 7 cities of Cíbola, lands full of mineral wealths resources and abundant rivers. The explorers carried with themselves flags of catholic imagies of diverses virgins as Nuestra señora del Rosario and Nuestra señora de las Angustias.

The American Indians of the area were in the habit of being calling them Our Senora or Sonora instead of Our Lady because they could not declare the letter "ñ". The word settled in the vocabulary of the american indian population. When new people from the south (Now State of sinaloa) almost all of them form spanish galician origin went up to the State to stay for good, they start using this word as the name of the large territory.

Sonora means also Sonorous, some people say that the word was also used to name the state because all the wealths that the state had. The riches of the state (especially mineral resources) make a beauty Sound.

[edit] "Motto"

I was very surprised to see the motto on this page say "Sonora is for hardcore Mexicans." Not only had I never heard that, it sounded very wrong.

http://www.sonora.gob.mx/BusquedaSitioIntegrada.asp is the official Sonora state web site. Under the logo of "Sonora" it says "vamos por soluciones." That sounds like a motto or "lema" to me. That means "we go for solutions" or "we go by solutions." I know that motto on this wikipedia page is wrong and probably is a joke of some type. I don't feel qualified to take it down but the state's logo and "saying" is what I just said. I haven't looked at all the information pages - but they are definitely not up to par with the pages on Mexico in Spanish. AmySterling 05:30, 5 October 2007 (UTC)AmySterling