Chinapa (from Opata , meaning "place of the cascalotes") is a village in Arizpe Municipality in the central-northern region of the Mexican state of Sonora, near the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sonora River.
History
San José de Chinapa was founded in 1648 by Jesuit missionaries, as a of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Arizpe.
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