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San Francisco de Borja

San Francisco de Borja

Town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua

This article is about the Mexican town. For the saint, see Francis Borgia.

San Francisco de Borja is a town and seat of the municipality of San Francisco de Borja, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the town of San Francisco de Borja had a population of 1,157,[1] up from 1,142 as of 2005.[2]

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San Francisco de Borja was founded as a Jesuit mission in the 1640s to the Tarahumara. The Tarahumara destroyed it in war with the Spanish in 1648, but it was later rebuilt.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "San Francisco de Borja". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. [2]
    Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on October 25, 2008
  3. [3]
    Edward H. Spicer, Cycles of Conquest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962) p. 30
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