Sonora Place Names
Aconchi - (Opata mission on the Sonora River)
Agtun - (ranchería on the Gila River)
Agua Caliente - (real de minas established ca.1735 east of Saric,
Sonora)
Aguaje - (real de minas establshed ca.1718 south of present-day
Hermosillo, Sonora)
Altar - (presidio on the Altar River, established after the Pima uprising
of 1751)
Aquimuri - (O=odham ranchería
near Saric, Sonora)
Arisona - Arissona, Arizona (ranch established ca.1735 east of Saric,
Sonora; the famous Aplanchas de
plata@ silver discovery of 1736 took
place between here and present-day Nogales, Sonora)
Arivaca - Aribaca, Arivag (ranchería and mission visita west of
present-day Amado, Arizona; site of the only battle fought between Spaniards and
O=odham in the uprising of
1751)
Arizpe - Arispe (Opata mission on the Sonora River)
Ati - (ranchería on the Santa Cruz River near Tumacácori)
Átil - (mission in the Altar Valley)
Aup=tutug - (ranchería on the
Gila River)
Babasac - Babasaqui (ranchería in close proximity to Ímuris)
Babisi - Bavisi (O=odham
ranchería in the vicinity of Suamca and Obtuavo)
Babocomari - Babocomaric, Bahvacomarig, Vabohcomarig, Bafocomaric,
Baffocomarig,
(ranchería on the San Pedro River near present-day Fairbank, Arizona)
Baboquiburi - Baboquivuri, Babuquibari, Bavoquivuri (ranchería and
mountain near present-
day Sells, Arizona)
Bac - Baag, Baac, Vag, Vaag, San Xavier (O=odham ranchería and mission near
present-day Tucson, Arizona)
Bacarica (ranchería somewhere between Guevavi and San Xavier del
Bac)
Bacoachi - (mission and presidio on the Sonora River north of
Arizpe)
Bacuacucan - (ranchería in the vicinity of San Ignacio de
Sonoitac)
Baihcat - Baihca, Baihcata (O=odham ranchería near Suamca called San
Pablo)
Banámichi - (mission on the Sonora River south of Arizpe)
Basaraca - (ranchería near Suamca)
Basochuca - (real de minas north of Arizpe, Sonora)
Batuco - (ranchería in the in the vicinity of Cucurpe)
Baviacora - (mission on the Sonora River, south of Arizpe)
Bavizi - (ranchería somewhere between Suamca and Quiburi)
Bisani - (ranchería in the vicinity of Suamca; not the mission south of
Caborca or Busani near
Saric)
Buena Vista - (historic Spanish ranching community just east of Nogales,
Sonora)
Busani - Busanic, Buzani, (O=odham ranchería near Saric, Sonora)
Caborca - (southernmost mission still standing in the Altar
Valley)
Calabazas - Calabasas (mission at present-day Rio Rico, Arizona)
Casa Grande - Casas Grandes (prehistoric ruins on the Gila River)
Cocóspera - (Kino mission, south of Suamca and Guevavi, north of Remedios
and Dolores)
Comacavitcam - (O=odham
ranchería in the vicinity of Guevavi)
Comashca - (probably near San Ignacio)
Corodéguachi - Fronteras (Sonora presidio 30 miles south of present-day
Douglas, Arizona)
Cucurpe - (mission on the San Miguel River east of Magdalena,
Sonora)
Cuiquburitat - see Quiquiburiturss
Cuituavo - (ranchería in the vicinity of San Xavier del Bac)
Cuquiárachi - (northernmost mission to the Opatas; eight miles west of
Fronteras, Sonora)
Divisadero - (geologic feature and ranch south of Guevavi and Suamca,
north of Cocóspera)
Dolores - (Nuestra Señora de Dolores de Cósari -- Father Kino=s cabecera, east of Magdalena,
north of Cucurpe on the San Miguel River)
Esquobaag - Esquobag, Esquovag, Esquovaag (O=odham ranchería near Suamca)
Fronteras - Santa Rosa de Corodéguachi (Sonora presidio 30 miles south of
present-day
Douglas, Arizona, called Fronteras because La Caballería de las
Fronteras, or Athe
Cavalry of the Frontier @ was
stationed there)
Gahcat - (ranchería probably near Tucson)
Gila - Xila (Gila River)
Guepavérachi
- (Opata ranchería and real de minas on the Sonora River,
north of Arizpe)
Guevavi - Guebaui, Guebavi, Guebabi, (Kino mission established 1691 near
present-day Nogales, Arizona)
Gutzutag - Gusutag, Gusitag, Guzutac, Gusutaqui, Gussutaqui, Gutzutaqui
(adjoining ranchería to Guevavi)
Haivani - Haivani Pit, Haivainipit, Gaivanipitea (Sobaípuri ranchería on
the San Pedro River near present-day Fairbank, Arizona)
Haivani Mugvit - (on the Gila River)
Hasohuvaibca - San Pedro (O=odham ranchería near Suamca)
Havanimo - (ranchería somewhere in the vicinity of Suamca)
Horcasitas - (capital of Sonora ca.1750; on San Miguel River northeast of
Hermosillo)
Huturi tuscam - (O=odham
ranchería on the Gila River)
Ímuris - Himuris, Himuri (Kino mission just north of Magdalena,
Sonora)
Jamaica - (hacienda south of Nacosari)
Janos
- (presidio of northern Chihuahua, also city in central Sonora)
La Purísima Concepción de Nuestra Señora - (see Caborca)
Los Santos Reyes - (see Cucurpe)
Los Siete Príncipes - (see Átil)
Magdalena - (Kino mission and site of his burial; in Sonora 50 miles
south of Nogales, Arizona)
Mamturss - (O=odham ranchería
somewhere near Guevavi)
Mátape - (mission on the Mátape River east of present-day Hermosillo,
Sonora)
Nacosari - (real de minas on the Moctezuma River south of Fronteras,
Sonora)
Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu (see Tetuachi)
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción - (see Arizpe)
Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago (see Cocóspera)
Obtuavo - Obtuabo, Optuavo, San Jago (O=odham ranchería near San Ignacio de
Sonoitac)
Opodepe - (ranchería, mission, and Spanish community on the Sonora River
between Cucurper and Horcasitas, Sonora)
Oquitoa - Uquitoa (mission in the Altar Valley)
Oquitoa - (realito, or small mining community, in the Altar
Valley)
Palmillas - (ranchería near Ímuris)
Parral - (real de minas and important Spanish community in
Chihuahua)
Pipiac - (O=odham ranchería
probably north of Tucson)
Pitic - (hacienda of Sonora=s
second Governor; present-day Hermosillo)
Piticai - Pitic (on the Santa Cruz River; on the road to Sópori north of
Guevavi)
Pitiquito - Pitiqui, Pitic, Pitiquín (mission in the Altar Valley)
Quiburi - Quivuri, Quabuli (means Ahouses;@ Sobaípuri ranchería on the San Pedro River
near
Haivani)
Quiquiburiturss - (O=odham
ranchería, probably northwest of Tucson)
Quixotoaquibuhto - (ranchería probably near Ímuris)
Raum - (O=odham ranchería on
the Santa Cruz river near Guevavi and Tumacácori)
Saacum - (ranchería somewhere in the vicinity of Suamca)
San Agustín - (see Tucson)
San Ambrosio - (see Busani and Tucubavia)
San Andres - (see Seug Bag)
San Antonio Paduano - (see Oquitoa)
San Bernardo - (see Aquimuri)
San Bismas - (see Seug Tuburss)
San Cayetano - (see Tumacácori)
San Cayetano - (see Calabazas)
San Diego - (see Pitiquito)
San Felipe y Santiago - (see Janos)
San Francisco
- (see Átil)
San Gabriel - (see Guevavi -- also San José, San Miguel, and Los Santos
Angeles)
San Ignacio - (de Cabórica -- Kino mission just north of
Magdalena, Sonora)
San Ignacio - (see Sonoitac -- present-day Patagonia)
San Ignacio - (see Tubac)
San Jago - (see Obtuavo)
San José - (see Ímuris)
San José - (see Parral)
San José - (see Tumacácori -- originally San Cayetano)
San Juan - (see Quiburi)
San Luis - (de Bacoancos -- ranchería and historic Spanish ranching
community south of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River)
San Mateo - (see Terrenate)
San Miguel - (see Bacoachi)
San Miguel - (see Horcasitas)
San Miguel - (see Sonoitac -- present-day Sonoita)
San Pablo - (see Quiburi)
San Pablo - (see Baihcat)
San Pedro - (see Hasohuvaibca)
San Pedro y San Pablo - (see Tubutama)
San Tadeo - (see Babocomaric)
San Xavier - (see Bac)
Santa Ana - (historic Spanish ranching community south of Magdalena,
Sonora)
Santa Barbara - (historic ranch south of Guevavi owned first by Diego and
Nicolás Romero)
Santa Cruz - (see Babisi)
Santa Cruz - (see Haivani)
Santa Fe - (capital of New Mexico)
Santa Gertrudis - (Altar)
Santa María - (see Basaraca)
Santa María - (see Magdalena)
Santa María - (see Suamca)
Santa Martha - (historic Spanish settlement near Santa Ana
Santa Rosa - (Fronteras; Corodéguachi)
Santa Teresa - (mission in the Altar Valley)
Santo Tomás Apóstol - (see Supquituni)
Saracachi - (real de minas between Cucurpe and Arizpe)
Saric - Sarique (northernmost mission of the Altar Valley and site of the
beginning of the Pima uprising of 1751)
Sasabac - Sasabe (ranchería in close proximity to San Ignacio de
Cabórica)
Sasparca - (ranchería probably near Ímuris)
Seug Bag - Seug Baag, Seug Vaag, Seu Vaag (O=odham ranchería near San Ignacio de
Sonoitac)
Seug Tuburss - (a neighboring ranchéria of Seug Bag)
Sibuc - (probably Cíbuta)
Sobaípuri (Teritorio de -- on the San Pedro river; Sobaípuri was the name
given to the O=odham
living in that river valley by the Spaniards)
Soledad - (ALa Soledad@ was somewhere in the jurisdiction of San
Ignacio)
Sonoitac - Sonoita, Sonoitag, Xonoita, Xonoitag, Xona, Los reyes (near
present-day Patagonia, Arizona)
Sonoitac - (present-day Sonoita, Sonora, Mexico)
Sopic - Sopoc (ranchería in the vicinity of San Ignacio de
Sonoitac)
Sópori - Soporic, Xoporic, Xoporica (O=odham ranchería; later Anza family
ranch)
Spibah - (ranchería somewhere in the vicinity of Guevavi)
Stonssutag - (ranchería between Suamca and Sonoitac)
Suamca - Soamca, Soanca (Kino mission near the headwaters of the Santa
Cruz River; present- day Santa Cruz, Sonora)
Supquituni - (ranchería near Suamca)
Sutagshon - Sutagsson, Sahutagson, Ssutagson (on the Gila River)
Taupari - (ranchería in the vicinity of San Ignacio de Sonoitac)
Terrenate - (presidio on the headwaters of the San Pedro River north of
Cananea, Sonora)
Tetuachi - (real de minas established ca.1720 south of Arizpe,
Sonora)
Tiburón - (island in the Gulf of California; Seri stronghold during the
Seri wars)
Tutup - Tuup (ranchería in the vicinity of Guevavi)
Toacuquita - Toac, Doac, Doag, Doaguquita, Toaguquita, Toaqui, Toaqui
Xona, Calabazas (O=odham ranchería and
later mission at present-day Rio Rico, Arizona)
Toamuqui - (ranchería somewhere in the vicinity of Guevavi and
Suamca)
Tonacbi - (ranchería near Arivaca)
Tres Alamos - (Sobaípuri ranchería on the San Pedro River)
Tuape - (ranchería south of Cucurpe)
Tuash-ug - (ranchería on the Gila River)
Tubac - Tubaca, Tubag, Tuvag (O=odham ranchería and later presidio near
Tumacácori)
Tubutama - (mission in the Altar Valley)
Tucson - Tuson, Tuzon, Tuquison, Tuizon, Tuxshon (O=odham ranchería, Spanish presidio,
modern city)
Tucubavia - Tucubabi, Tucubavi (O=odham ranchería northwest of Saric,
Sonora)
Tuhto - Tuto (ranchería in the vicinity of Guevavi)
Tumacácori - Tumacacor, Chumacacor, Chumacacori, San Cayetano (first Kino
mission established in present-day Arizona)
Tumuossha - Tumuohas (ranchería adjoining that of Tuvasig on the Gila
River)
Tumigai - (ranchería in the vicintiy of Suamca)
Tunsibar - (ranchería near San Ignacio)
Tupssi - (ranchería in the vicinity of Guevavi)
Tushomino - Tussomino (ranchería on the Gila River)
Tutumac - (ranchería in the vicinity of Arivaca)
Tuvasig - (ranchería adjoining that of Tumuossha on the Gila
River)
Tuurisai -
Tuburisai, Tuurisa (O=odham ranchería in the vicinity of
Suamca)
Uaham - (ranchería in the vicinity of Suamca)
Ubisava - (ranchería near Cucurpe)
Unbas - (ranchería somewhere near Tumacácori)
Ures - (southernmost mission on the Sonora River, northeast of
Hermosillo, Sonora)
Ursvaag - Ursbag (ranchería between Santa María Suamca and
Obtuavo)
Vaicat - (ranchería between Guevavi and Calabazas)
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