Oquitoa
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Oquitoa is a small town surrounded by Oquitoa Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora.
Oquitoa is a small town surrounded by Oquitoa Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora. ==History== Mission San Antonio Paduano de Oquitoa was founded in 16891 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino. As a Jesuit mission, it was at various times a of Tubutama or Átil; later, under the Franciscans, it was an independent mission. The church apparently had a facelift by the Franciscans between 1788 and 1797, and was restored in 1920. Today, it is the only still-used church in the region of Jesuit (pre-1767) construction. Oquitoa is considered by many to be the gem of the Kino missions. This simple adobe hall church stands atop a small hill in the midst of the village cemetery. Missionaries stationed at Oquitoa included Francisco Moyano (1795–?), Matías Creo (1813–?), and Juan Maldonado (1831). ==Health and education== There were only two primary schools and one doctor in a small health clinic in 2000. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120306010309/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/sonora/municipios/26046a.htm ==Economic activity== Agriculture covered 901 hectares (2000), most of which were not irrigated. Main crops are alfalfa, beans, corn and the production of fodder for the cattle industry. Cattle raising was carried out by most of the work force (2000). ==References== [http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/EMM_sonora Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico INEGI ==External links== Oquitoa mission history Kino Missions
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