Cananea
| Cananea | ||
|---|---|---|
| City | ||
| Heroica Ciudad de Cananea | ||
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| Nickname(s): Ciudad del Cobre (Copper City) | ||
 Municipality of Cananea in Sonora | ||
  Cananea City of Cananea | ||
| Coordinates: 30°58′55″N 110°18′02″W / 30.98194°N 110.30056°WCoordinates: 30°58′55″N 110°18′02″W / 30.98194°N 110.30056°W | ||
| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Sonora | |
| Municipality | Cananea | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Council-Manager Government | |
| • Mayor of Cananea |
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| Elevation | 1,620 m (5,310 ft) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 31,560 | |
| Time zone | MST (UTC-7) | |
| Postal code | 84620 - 84635 | |
| Area code(s) | 645 | |
| Demonym | Cananense | |
| Website | www.cananea.gob.mx | |
Cananea (from the Apache term for "horse meat") is a city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, Northwestern Mexico. It is the seat of the Municipality of Cananea, on the U.S−Mexico border.
The population of the city was 31,560 as recorded by the 2010 census. The population of the municipality, which includes rural areas, was 32,936. The total area of the municipality is approximately 4,100 square kilometres (1,600 sq mi).
History
The first non-indigenous inhabitants of the present day Cananea, arrived in 1760 from other parts of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México). Jesuit priests discovered gold and silver, and opened mines using the indigenous peoples for labor.
In the 19th century General Ignacio Pesqueira, from nearby Arizpe, retired to Cananea. He fought against the Apache who raided the area. One time, while following them into the mountains, he discovered the abandoned Spanish mines and by 1868 he had renewed the extraction of minerals in the Cananea mines. General Pesqueira's wife, Elena Pesqueira Pesqueira, "discovered" a nearby mountain range (sierra) and the General named the highest peak La Elenita ("The Little Helen", 9,327 feet or 2,843 meters above sea level) in her honor. The other peak is named La Mariquita ("The Little Mary", 8,123 feet or 2,476 meters above sea level).
In 1889 William Cornell Greene purchased the mine from General Pesqueira and founded the Nogales, Sonora-based company, The Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, S. A. (CCCC or 4C). In June 1906, a labor dispute erupted into the violent cross-border Cananea strike, that resulted in the death of 23 people and dozens injured, in a fight between the strikers and a posse led by Arizona Rangers from the United States. A corrido titled La cárcel de Cananea ("Cananea jail") written in 1917 and commemorating the incident has since become famous. At the time of the strike the population of 23,000 included 7,000 Americans and 5,000 Chinese.[1]
On October 31, 1901, the area became a municipality with Cananea town as its seat. On July 11, 1957, Cananea town became a city.
Cananea Jail
The Cananea jail was built in 1903 and is located in downtown Cananea. It was the first public jail of the city and is currently a museum "Museo de la Lucha Obrera" with exhibitions of photographs and instruments used in mining.
The Cananea Jail song is a corrido that has become part of the culture of Cananea and the state of Sonora. It describes the experiences of a man accused of murdering Chinese immigrants while at this jail. According to historian Rodolfo Rascón, a man called Francisco, nicknamed El Cucharón de Batuc ("The Big Spoon of Batuc"), wrote the song in 1917.
Climate
The municipality of Cananea has a sub-humid Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa), with an average monthly maximum temperature of 74.3°F (23.5 °C) in the months of June to September and an average monthly minimum of 45.3° F (7.4 °C) in December and January; the average annual temperature is 59.5°F (15.3 °C).
Atypically for the Mediterranean climate type, the dry season occurs in spring and early summer, whereas the rainy season is in mid/late summer and autumn. Through winter the rains are less intense, but of longer duration. Called “equipatas”, they can fall in the form of snow. In the months of February, March, and April there are frequent frosts, hailstorms, and occasional snowstorms. Precipitation averages at 511 millimetres (20 in) annually.
| Climate data for Cananea | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34.0 (93.2) |
28.0 (82.4) |
28.2 (82.8) |
39.0 (102.2) |
39.0 (102.2) |
45.0 (113) |
42.0 (107.6) |
39.0 (102.2) |
40.0 (104) |
33.0 (91.4) |
29.4 (84.9) |
27.0 (80.6) |
45.0 (113) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 14.5 (58.1) |
16.7 (62.1) |
17.9 (64.2) |
22.4 (72.3) |
26.0 (78.8) |
32.1 (89.8) |
30.8 (87.4) |
30.1 (86.2) |
28.2 (82.8) |
23.9 (75) |
17.8 (64) |
14.3 (57.7) |
22.9 (73.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 2.5 (36.5) |
4.0 (39.2) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.6 (47.5) |
11.3 (52.3) |
16.1 (61) |
16.6 (61.9) |
17.0 (62.6) |
14.5 (58.1) |
10.4 (50.7) |
5.8 (42.4) |
2.5 (36.5) |
9.5 (49.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −20.0 (−4) |
−26.0 (−14.8) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
−15.0 (5) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
3.0 (37.4) |
6.0 (42.8) |
5.0 (41) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−21.0 (−5.8) |
−26.0 (−14.8) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 45.5 (1.791) |
28.7 (1.13) |
24.1 (0.949) |
6.2 (0.244) |
7.6 (0.299) |
17.5 (0.689) |
123.9 (4.878) |
89.6 (3.528) |
56.2 (2.213) |
46.1 (1.815) |
22.5 (0.886) |
42.8 (1.685) |
510.7 (20.107) |
| Average rainy days | 3.3 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 12.5 | 8.7 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 46.3 |
| Source: SERVICIO METEOROLÓGICO NACIONAL[2] | |||||||||||||
City Government
Mayors
| 1970-1973 | Roberto Elzy Torres | |
| 1973-1976 | Jesús Ahumada Barreda | |
| 1976-1979 | Héctor Lavander León | |
| 1979-1982 | Roberto Torres Carbajal | |
| 1982-1985 | Gildardo Monge Reyes | |
| 1985-1988 | Rafael Carrillo Monzón | |
| 1988-1991 | Francisco Javier Taddei Taddei | |
| 1991-1994 | Gildardo Monge Escárcega | |
| 1994-1997 | Héctor René Tagles Zavala | |
| 1997-2000 | Francisco García Gamez | .svg.png){kind=small} |
| 2000-2003 | Mario César Cuen Aranda | |
| 2003-2006 | Francisco García Gamez | |
| 2006-2009 | Luis Carlos Cha Flores | |
| 2009-2012 | Jesús Reginaldo Moreno García | |
| 2012-2015 | Francisco Javier Tarazón Curlango | |
| 2015-2018 | Fernando Herrera Moreno | |
Economy
Mining
Mining is the main source of revenue for Cananea and will be for the foreseeable future. Eighty percent of the population is directly or indirectly supported by mining companies in Cananea. The first and most important mining company is Buenavista del Cobre, S.A. de C.V. (formerly Mexicana de Cananea, S.A. de C.V.) owned by the Southern Copper Corporation, [3] and still shares ownership with Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. [4] The Mining Operations Director assigned to Cananea is Isaac López Arzola. Grupo Mexico plans to invest $3.7 Billion US Dollars at the Cananea Mine. This program is expected to increase Buenavista´s production capacity from 180,000 tons of copper per year to over 450,000 tons. During 2Q11, Buenavista reached its full capacity and produced 45,588 tons of copper: 15,170 tons of copper cathode at its SX/EW Plant and 30,417 tons of copper concentrate at the Concentrator Plant. Cananea is among the world's largest copper mines in terms of reserves.
A miners strike at the Buenavista del Cobre mine lasted almost three years, until broken on the night of June 6, 2010, when Mexican police dispersed striking workers.[5] On June 6, 2011, the Confederation of Mexican Workers (“CTM”) was granted the collective bargaining agreement for the Buenavista union, replacing the miner's National Union of Mining and Metallurgical Workers Sindicate, Section No.65 (Labor Union), headed by Napoleón Gómez Urrutia.
The second and smaller active copper mine is "Minera Maria", owned by Minera Frisco, S.A.B. de C.V. a Mexican company controlled by Carlos Slim Helú and family, including Inmobiliaria Carso, S.A. de C.V. and located west of Cananea. The plant has an installed monthly production capacity of 2,500 tons of copper cathode.
Industry
Industry is the second most important activity in the local economy, generating around 3,100 jobs. There is a modest industrial park situated north of the town with an area of 53 acres (210,000 m2). There are several companies operating as maquiladoras. The most important are Stewart Connector Systems de México, S.A.; Fundidora de Cananea, S.A. and Road Machinery Company de México, S.A. which together provide 600 jobs and are involved in diverse activities, from cable assembly to production of steel.
Agriculture
Cattle raising is important and there were approximately 16,000 head in the last census.
Farming consists mainly of corn, potatoes, beans, sorghum, alfalfa, barley, and apples. Most of these crops are used for local consumption and cattle fodder. The infrastructure consists of 30 wells, equipped with a system of electrical motors, and 10 kilometers (6 mi) of reinforced canals used for irrigation.
Twin towns
Notable residents
- William Cornell Greene - Founder of modern Cananea, The Greene Consolidated Copper Company and The Cananea Consolidated Copper Company.
- Aurelio Rodríguez - Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
- Francisco "Chico" Rodríguez - Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
- Jaime Corella - Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
- Raul Hector Castro - 14th Governor of The State of Arizona
References
- (Spanish) Site of the presidency of the municipality of Cananea
- (Spanish) Cananea at the site of the Government of Sonora
- (Spanish) The Cananea Strike at the Universidad Obrera de México
- (Spanish) Cananea at La Jornada
- (Spanish) http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/28052007/242450.aspx
- (Spanish) Sindicato Minero Seccion 65 of Cananea
Notes
- ↑ "WENT AGAINST ORDERS; Governor of Arizona Warned Capt. Rynning and Other Americans", New York Times, June 3, 1906.
- ↑ "NORMALES CLIMATOLÓGICAS 1971-2000
ESTADO DE: SONORA
ESTACION: 00026013 CANANEA, CANANEA". Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 2012-04-25. - ↑ Southern Copper Corporation. (NYSE:SCCO
- ↑ Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV:GMEXICO
- ↑ Elisabeth Malkin (June 7, 2010). "Police Officers End a Mine Strike in Mexico". New York Times.
External links
- (Spanish)—Official Cananea government website
- (Spanish)—Cananea.info: city information website
- cananea.net: Official Cananea Consolidated Company website
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