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Caborca Municipality

municipality in the State of Sonora, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ2878225 ↗
Source-derived summary

Caborca is a municipality in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico.

The area of the municipality is 10,721.84 km2, which is 5.78 percent of the state total.

Towns and villages

There are 341 localities in the municipality of Caborca, the largest of which are:

Other localities include: Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, 15 de Septiembre, Santa Eduwiges, Viñedo Viva, Ures, Rodolfo Campodónico, Poblado Cerro Blanco, Puerto Lobos, San Francisquito.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Caborca Municipality” as municipality in the State of Sonora, Mexico. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Caborca, Municipality and municipality.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1890. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Caborca, Municipality and municipality providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2878225. Authority coordinates are 30.900, -112.600. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Caborca Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.