Bacobampo

Bacobampo is a town in Etchojoa Municipality in the state of Sonora, in northwestern Mexico. It is situated on the west bank of the Mayo River,[1] 20 km south of Huatabampo and 25 km southwest of Navajoa. It is an agricultural town, surrounded by fields. Bacobampo is 22 meters above sea level.[2]

Bacobampo
Town
Bacobampo is located in Mexico
Bacobampo
Bacobampo
Coordinates: 26°59′20″N 109°39′00″W
Country Mexico
StateSonora
MunicipalityEtchojoa
Population
 (2010)
 • Total8,539
Time zoneUTC-7 (Pacific MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (No DST)
Postal code
85287
Area code647

According to the 2010 INEGI census, the town's population was 8,539 inhabitants,[3] making it the second most populated settlement in the municipality.

History

The Mayo people have continuously inhabited the valley since pre-Hispanic times. The name Bacobampo comes from the local Mayo language, meaning "Baco" (Snake) + "Bampo" (Water), or "Snake in/near the Water".[4] The original name of the settlement was Cumbrocoa or Cumbrocobe, but was changed to its current name in 1895 – when the Mayo River would dry up, the natives noticed snakes in the puddles left behind.[5]

In 1903, the Salido brothers arrived from Álamos and began working the land.[5] Two years later, the settlement classification of Bacobampo was upgraded from ranchería to delegación.[5] In 1920, the brothers decided to split up their land: Ildefonso and Epifanio got their own part in Bacobampo while José María went to Basconcobe.[5] They found success cultivating wheat, maize, beans and chickpeas.[6] Bacobampo was then established as a comisaría on 1 January 1929.[5]

In the 1930s, the federal government invested in the northern border states, building several dams to develop the region's agriculture.[7] The subsequent agricultural boom caused a population surge in Sonoran towns near these dams such as Bacobampo and Colonia Irrigación (which would become Villa Juárez).[8] In 1938, the hacienda of Bacobampo was redistributed to 802 peasants as a part of President Lázaro Cárdenas's land reform policies, and a collective ejido system was set up.[5][6] Although the cooperative arrangement seemed to work well at first, the group divided into two groups: "collectivists" that were in favor of continuing to share the profits and "individualists" that preferred to break away from the group.[6] Violence broke out and the problem got so serious that Cárdenas visited the town in June 1939 to restore the peace.[6]

Education

There are two middle schools, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río and Gregorio Ahumada,[9][10] as well as one high school, CECYTES.[11]

Notable people

References
  1. "¿Qué hacer por Bacobampo?". Termometro en Línea (in Spanish). 17 March 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  2. "Digital Elevation Data - with SRTM voids filled using accurate topographic mapping". www.viewfinderpanoramas.org. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  3. "Información de localidad". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). SEDESOL. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  4. "Christian Zazueta: su momento decisivo" (in Spanish). Minor League Baseball. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  5. Robles Ibarra, Abimelec. "LOS CAMPESINOS DEL EJIDO BACOBAMPO N° 3. UNA REFLEXIÓN EN TORNO A SU ASUNCIÓN TEÓRICA AL CAMPESINADO" (PDF). Cuaderno de Trabajo No. 6 (in Spanish). Universidad de Sonora Sociology Department. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  6. Trejo Contreras, Zulema (June 1999). "Tras las huellas de un sueño: Bacobampo, de hacienda de los hermanos Salido a ejido colectivo". Indicios (in Spanish). No. 3. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  7. Jiménez González, Víctor Manuel (2010). Sonora: Guía para descubrir los encantos del estado (in Spanish). Mexico City: Editorial Océano de Mexico SA de CV. p. 40. ISBN 978-607-400-319-2.
  8. "Etchojoa". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México (in Spanish). Secretariat of the Interior. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  9. Palomares, Jesús (30 November 2020). "Se queman mesabancos en escuela de Bacobampo". El Imparcial (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  10. "PRACTICAN "OPERACIÓN MOCHILA" EN SECUNDARIA DE BACOBAMPO". Baja Star (in Spanish). 17 February 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  11. "Condicionan educación en Cecytes de Bacobampo". Diario del Yaqui (in Spanish). 5 November 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  12. Pineda, Nicolás (25 February 2001). "Ideas políticas". El Imparcial (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 January 2022.
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