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San Ignacio Río Muerto

San Ignacio Río Muerto

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San Ignacio Río Muerto is a small town surrounded by San Ignacio Río Muerto Municipality in the southwest of the Mexican state of Sonora.

Health and education

There were 54 schools and one small health clinic in 2000.

Economy

Agriculture covered 35,000 productive hectares (2000), most of which were irrigated. Main crops are wheat, garbanzo beans, safflower, sorghum, watermelon, chile and melons. Agricultural production is transported to Ciudad Obregón for packing and export to the United States.

Cattle raising is carried out on a small scale and there were more than 6,000 head in 2000.

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27.415°N 110.245°W / 27.415; -110.245
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