Cananea

Cananea on the map of Mexico

Cananea (official name: Heroica Ciudad de Cananea ) is a city in the Mexican state of Sonora with 31,067 inhabitants ( 2005). It is located near Nogales on the Rio Sonora. Cananea is bordered to the north by Arizona on the south, to the east by Arizpe Naco and Bacoachi and to the west by Imuris and Santa Cruz. The city has an area of ​​4141.17 km ² and is on average 1,624 meters above sea level.

History

The area of today's urban area was originally inhabited by the Pima Indians. White first came in 1760 in the area. Due to the rich copper deposits in the area, which were by the American businessman William Cornell Greene (1851-1911) discovered in 1899 and mined from the set up for that purpose, Greene Consolidated Copper Company, Cananea started to boom and in 1901 it became the administrative center.

In June 1906 there was a major strike of the Mexican miners Cananeas who protested in this way against the poor working conditions and relative to their U.S. counterparts significantly lower wages. In order to meet the strikers Lord, the governor of Sonora finally accepted the help of a 275 -strong U.S. Posse, which was commanded by a member of the Arizona Rangers. With the help of this force, the strike was violently suppressed, where 23 people lost their lives.

The fact that Mexican blood had been shed for foreign interests, worked for the regime of the dictator ruling Mexican long- time President Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915) have a destabilizing effect. Within the Mexican workers to nationalist sentiments were widespread and not least the strike of 1906 was partly responsible for that many workers joined the 1910 outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.

Twin Cities

• Germany Radebeul, Germany
• United States Sierra Vista, United States

Sons and daughters

• Florence Hawley Ellis, anthropologist
• Raul Hector Castro, politicians