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Nonoava

municipal seat of Nonoava, State of Chihuahua, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2023
Entity authorityQ2999281 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nonoava is a town and seat of the municipality of Nonoava, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the town of Nonoava had a population of 1,272, up from 1,209 as of 2005. The settlement was founded on the right bank of the Nonoava River in 1676 by the Jesuit missionary Francis Artuaga, and named Nuestra Señora de Montserrat de Nonoava.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nonoava” as municipal seat of Nonoava, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2005, 1676—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1676. The account is most persuasive where Nonoava, municipal and seat can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipal seat of Nonoava, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 24, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q2999281. Authority coordinates are 27.471, -106.734. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2005 and 1676.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nonoava” 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.