Guazapares Municipality
{{Short description|Municipality in the Mexican state of Chihuahua}}
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Guazapares is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Témoris. The municipality covers an area of 2,145.8 km2.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,998,{{cite web|title=Guazapares|url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=08&mun=030|work=Catálogo de Localidades|publisher=Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)|accessdate=23 April 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140544/http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=08&mun=030|url-status=dead}} up from 8,010 as of 2005.{{cite web|title=Guazapares|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08030a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|accessdate=September 28, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223203436/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08030a.htm|archivedate=February 23, 2007}}
The municipality had 492 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Témoris (2,053), classified as rural.
History
As a pueblo, Guazapares was home to the Guazapare people,Also transcribed as Guacapane, Guacapare, Guarapare, Guasapare, Guasapari, Guaspare, Guazapari, or Gucapari a tribal group who spoke a dialect of the Tarahumara language.{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Cyrus |title=Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical Distribution |isbn=978-0-8466-4042-4 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/11035495/ |access-date=9 May 2024 |language=English |page=36}} After Jesuit missionaries Julio Pascual and Manuel Martinez were killed in a 1632 uprising, {{ill|Pedro de Perea|es}} led a punitive expedition against native groups including the Guazapare, killing about 800 natives. The surviving Guazapare were reduced into the Jesuit missions.{{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Juliana |last2=Countryman |first2=Edward |title=Contested Spaces of Early America |date=7 March 2014 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-0933-4 |pages=130–131 |language=en}}
Geography
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The municipality has 352 localities. The largest are:
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! Name !! Population (2005) | |
Témoris | 1,639 |
Santa Matilde | 301 |
Hormigueros | 189 |
Estación Témoris | 133 |
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| Total Municipality | 8,010 |