# Soyopa

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**Soyopa** ([Yaqui](/source/Yaqui_language): "hot land") is a town in [Soyopa Municipality](/source/Soyopa_Municipality), in the eastern region of the [Mexican state](/source/List_of_states_of_Mexico) of [Sonora](/source/Sonora). The elevation is 350 meters.

It was historically the location of the [Jesuit](/source/Jesuit) mission **San Joseph de Soyopa**.[1]

## Economy

The main economic activities are cattle raising (16,000 head in 2000), agriculture (rye, sorghum, wheat), and mining.[citation needed]

Silver was mined here beginning in the eighteenth century and the town had its economic heyday around 1880. After that the silver mines ran out and the population declined.[citation needed]

## References

1. Ives, Ronald L. (1948). ["The Sonoran Census of 1730"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/44210049). *Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia*. **59** (4): 319–339. [ISSN 0002-7790](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0002-7790). Retrieved 29 April 2024.

## External links

- [Soyopa, Ayuntamiento Digital](http://soyopa.sonora.gob.mx) *(Official Website of Soyopa, Sonora)*
- [The Road to Soyopa](https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/07-25-96/cover.htm) a book about exploring the back roads of Sonora

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