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Cananea is a city in the Mexican state of Sonora, Northwestern Mexico. It is the seat of the Municipality of Cananea , in the vicinity of the U.S−Mexico border. The population of the city was 31,560 as recorded by the 2010 census.
Cananea is a municipality in the northern portion of the Mexican state of Sonora, on the U.S. border. Its municipal seat is the city of Cananea , located at 30°58′55″N 110°18′02″W / 30.98194°N 110.30056°W / 30.98194; -110.
The Cananea strike, also known as the Cananea riot, [1] or the Cananea massacre, [2] took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.Although the workers were forced to return to their positions with no demand being met, the action was a key event in the general unrest that emerged during the final years of the regime of President Porfirio Díaz and that prefigured the ...
The Buenavista mine, historically known as the Cananea copper mine, is a large open pit copper mine located in the north-west of Mexico in Cananea, Sonora. It lies 35 km (22 mi) south of the international border near Nogales, Arizona. Buenavista mine represents one of the largest copper reserves in Mexico and in the world.
Founder of Cananea, Sonora Colonel William Cornell Greene (August 26, 1852 – August 5, 1911) was an American businessman who was famous for discovering rich copper reserves in Cananea , Mexico , and for founding the Greene Consolidated Copper Company in 1899.
The state has the largest mining surface in Mexico, [138] and three of the country's largest mines: La Caridad, Cananea and Mineria María. It is also home to North America's oldest copper mine, located in Cananea. [139] Grupo México, with one of its principal mining operations in Cananea, is the world's third-largest copper producer. [140]
The Guillermo Haro Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astrofísico Guillermo Haro - OAGH) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica - INAOE) in the Mexican state of Sonora.
Grupo Reforma at Mexico City. The company was founded by Raúl Antonio Escobedo and Larrea Mota Velasco in 1978. After the government of Carlos Salinas declared the state mining company bankrupt, Larrea purchased key Mexican copper mines in Cananea and Nacozari (cities in the state of Sonora).