Guaymas to Tucson Corridor
Some Places Are Special!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 La Loma Grande, LLC
International Presence!
Guaymas to Tucson Corridor:
Guaymas to Tucson commercial corridor is one of the oldest in the United States.
We don’t know where these people came from? We don’t know who these people were? We don’t know their names? We don’t know where they went? We don’t know their languages?
Logistic Considerations:
We do know they settled in a spectacular place!
We know they build homes, traded, prospered, raised families, and survived for millenniums!
We know these people by what they left Behind!
Access to World’s Largest Markets!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Nogales Port of Crossing:
International Connections:
Ports of Crossing:
Douglas Arizona & Aqua Prieta Sonora Naco Arizona & Naco Sonora Nogales Arizona & Nogales Sonora
International Trade:
60% of all winter produce consumed in the US and Canada passes through Nogales.
Nogales represents $26 billion dollars of international trade into Arizona, the United States, and to world through the deep sea port Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
30,000 Mexican shoppers cross the US border daily.
$650 billion in International Drug commerce generates additional trickle down value.
Transportation:
United States Interstate Highways I-10, I-8, and I-19 directs traffic in and out of Nogales. Mexico Federal Highway 15 provides access to the Port of Guaymas. CANAMEX Highway, crosses in Nogales, connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
International Ports of Entry are Morley Pedestrian Entry, Dennis Deconcini Pedestrian & Private Owned Vehicle Entry, Mariposa Commercial Entry (12 passenger vehicle inspection lanes and 8 commercial inspection lanes), and Nogales International Airport.
Port of Crossing Annual Estimates:
Commercial Trucks - 547,500 Private Owned Vehicle - 3,025,767 People (Pedestrian, bus, and POV) - 13,415,485
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Nogales, Arizona United States of America Facts:
Area 20.8 sq mi Elevation 3,832 ft Population 20,948 (2011) Density 1,001.6 sq mi Per Capita Income $13,278 ZIP codes 85600-85699 Area code(s) 520 FIPS code 04-49640 Website www.nogalesaz.gov Nogales Spanish for "Black Walnut"
Santa Cruz County Rated Highest “Quality of Life” in Arizona!
Nogales Arizona is best known for 250 years of Apache Wars, cowboys, gun fights, 35,000 head cattle ranches, 450,000 acre Spanish land grants, perfect weather, geological diversity, specialized plants and animals, natural beauty, lightening shows, and magical sunsets.
Sonoran Desert culminates in grandeur encouraged by summer Monsoon, winter snow (Made possible by 9,453 ft. moisture grabbing elevations), mineralized soils, and adaptive vegetation.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628
1901 the saguaro blossom was adopted as the official territorial flower. 1931 it was confirmed as the state flower.
A unique state flower characterized by a waxy feel and fragrant aroma.
There may be hundreds of flowers on a saguaro cactus blooming several at a time over a period of more than a month.
Saguaro flowers are short lived opening at night and closing permanently the next day.
Blossoms become pollinated and later in summer the flowers become red-fleshed fruits.
Saguaro Blossom!
Resourceful Adaptations!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Nogales, Arizona Flag:
February 17, 1917 state flag of Arizona was officially adopted.
Designed by Colonel Charles W. Harris (adjutant general and chief administrative officer of Arizona) and was sewn by Nan D. Hayden.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628
35 Endangered Species Reside within 5 Miles of the Center of Our Ranch!
Local Jaguar Respectfully Enjoying a Mesquite Tree!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628
Lightening Shows
Greatest Strike rate in the World!
Induced by Mineralized Soil & Monson Rains!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Nogales, Sonora Mexico Facts:
President Benito Juarez Monument:
Founded 1884 July 11 Declared a city 1920 January 1 Area 1,675 km² Elevation 3,934 ft Population 220,292 (2010) Density 131.5/ km² Time zone MST (UTC-7) Area code(s) 631
92 Maquiladoras employ 35,000 workers.
Poverty Life Quality Index Levels:
33.9% in Poverty 41.2% < 18 Years 32.9% > 65 Years
Nogales, Sonora Mexico Flag:
1821 the first three color national flag was created following independence from Spain. Red, white, and green are also the colors of the Mexican National Liberation Army.
The central emblem is the Aztec pictogram for Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) the center of their empire.
Inspired by Aztec legend to settle on what was originally a lake-island, their gods told them to build a city where they spot an eagle holding a serpent in its talon, perched on a prickly pear cactus, and situated on a rock that rises above a lake. 1424 China Began Trading with the Aztec! Montezuma Likely Chinese!
“Montezuma” Mythical God of the Indigence “Pimeria Alta” Tribes!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Produce Production:
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Local Color and Action:
Movies filmed Near Nogales! Three Amigos Geronimo: An American Legend Star Trek: Generations A Kiss Before Dying Glory Road Stargate A Star is Born Groom Lake Stay Tuned Aces: Iron Eagle III Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Stir Crazy Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man Terminal Velocity Almost Famous Hawmps! The Bells of St. Mary's Along Came Jones Hombre The Cannonball Run Arizona How the West Was Won The Mine with the Iron Door Arizona Dream Jesus' Son The Outlaw Josey Wales Away We Go Lilies of the Field The Postman Baraka Los Locos The Quick and the Dead Battle Hymn Lost Horizon The Trial of Billy Jack Border Wars Major League The Villain Boys on the Side Mary Shelley's The Last Man The Westerner Broken Arrow McLintock! The Wraith Cannonball Run II Nemesis The Young Animals Can't Buy Me Love Night of the Lepus Tin Cup Captain Newman, M.D. Oklahoma! Tom Horn Clear and Present Danger Perdita Durango Tombstone Cold Feet Price of Glory Traffic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Red River Transformers David and Bathsheba Revenge of the Nerds Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Death Wish Rio Bravo Ulzana's Raid Duel in the Sun Rio Lobo Violent Saturday Easy Rider Roswell White Line Fever Eating Out Ruby Jean and Joe Winchester '73 El Dorado South of Heaven, West of Hell Wings Fire Birds Star Trek: First Contact World Gone Wild Young Guns II Sort of Entertaining!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Shared Nogales History:
69,013 BP - Evidence suggests ocean going travelers, settling the Philippians, also acquainted them selves with western North America.
26,013 BP - European (Solutrean) people journeyed to southern Arizona (Bi-faces)
15,130 BP - Paloelithic tools began to appear in the area (Bi-faces).
13,013 BP - Asians began traveling to Nogales.
12,013 BP - Tucson’s Santa Cruz Valley experienced migrations of Paleoindian and Archaic hunters and gatherers. Tucson is the oldest continuously occupied city on earth.
4,483 BP - Cypriot Minoan copper mining initiated international trade between North America, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East.
3,013 BP - Elaborate irrigated farming communities established along the Santa Cruz River in Tucson.
1,113 BP (900 AD) - Europeans of all race, creed, and nationality regularly traveled to Nogales (Mustang Mountain Rune stones). Accepting huge “Risk” in search of their fortunes, thousands of adventures began traveling to Nogales!
326 BP (1687 AD) - A Mule Riding Italian Jesuit Priest, Father Eusebio Kino, came to Nogales.
1687 Father Kino visited the O’odham peoples living in the Sonoran desert along the Santa Cruz River.
He introduced commercial specialized agriculture, ranching, education, cultural, community development, skilled trades, commercial enterprises, churches, documented local languages, built roads connecting the communities, and cared for the well- being of the indigenous inhabitants.
Specialized skilled communities continue to maintain their traditional trades (Tile and brick production, musical instruments, ranching, fresh produce, weaving, felt hats, cotton garments and blankets, silver and gold jewelry, boots and shoes, saddles, copper pots and pans, stoves, terra cotta pottery, tequila, baskets, candles, glass, decorative iron, and art)!
Beginning of Intense Trade!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Missions:
1687 - Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores: founded on March 13, 1687. This was the first mission founded in the Pimaria Alta (Enrollment) by Father Kino. 1744 the mission was abandoned.
1687 - Nuestra Señora de los Remedios was founded in 1687. 1730 mission was abandoned (Nothing remains of this mission).
1687 - San Ignacio de Cabórica was founded in 1687 and is located in San Ignacio, Sonora.
1687 - Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama was founded in 1687, in Tubutama, Sonora.
1687 - Santa Teresa de Atil was founded in 1687, in the small town of Atil, Sonora.
1687 - Santa Maria Magdalena was founded in 1687, located in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora. Padre Kino's grave is located here.
1687 - San José de Imuris was founded in 1687, in Imuris, Sonora.
1689 - Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera was founded in 1689 and located in Cocóspera, Sonora.
1689 - San Antonio Paduano del Oquitoa was founded in 1689. It is located in Oquitoa, Sonora.
1689 - San Diego del Pitiquito was founded in 1689. It is located in Pitiquito, Sonora.
1691 - San Luis Bacoancos was founded in 1691, but was soon abandoned after Apache attacks.
1691 Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas was founded in 1691 at a native Sobaipuri settlement. Later a church was built. After the 1751 Pima Revolt the settlement and mission were moved to the opposite side of the river.
1691 - Mission San José de Tumacácori, the presently known location that is a National Historic Park. The farming land around the mission was sold at auction in 1834 and the mission was abandoned by 1840. It is now a National Monument in Tumacácori National Historical Park in Southern Arizona.
1691 - Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi was founded in 1691 and is the location of the first church built in southern Arizona. The church was initially established in a native settlement, but then was destroyed by fire, during an indigenous uprising. The church rebuilt in new locations twice, the final and largest one being built in 1751. Its ruins are part of Tumacácori National Historical Park.
1691 - San Lázaro was founded in 1691, but was soon abandoned after Apache attacks.
1692 - San Xavier del Bac (O'odham [Papago]) 16 miles south of Tucson, Arizona, founded in 1692, the present building dates from 1785. The interior is richly decorated with ornaments showing a mixture of New Spain and Native American artistic motifs. It is still used by Tohono O'odham and Yaqui tribal members.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 1692 - Los Santos Reyes de Sonoita/San Ignacio de Sonoitac (Rancheria near Tumacacori) founded 1692.
1692 - San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón founded 1692.
1693 - La Purísima Concepción de NuestraSeñora de Caborca founded 1693
1693 - Santa María Suamca founded 1693
1693 - San Valentín de Busanic/Bisanig founded 1693
1693 - Nuestra Señora de Loreto y San Marcelo de Sonoyta founded 1693
1704 - NuestraSeñora de la Ascención de Opodepe founded 1704
San Xavier del Bac - Tucson Caborca - Mexico
Dignified Effigies!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Nogales Foundations:
Father Kino established a series of missions among the O’odham peoples in the desert of southern Arizona.
February 3, 1768 Spanish King Charles II ordered the Jesuits forcibly expelled from Spanish lands in the Americas.
Mission administration transferred to the Franciscans (Reliable and Pliable).
Rumors!
Jesuit Priests Amassed Fortunes!
Became Powerful!
Access and Motive?
Divine Intervention Helps!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Legacy of Father Kino:
San Antonio Paduanodel Oquitoa San Cayetano de Tumacacori
Father Kino Saying Mass in the Ramadaat! Gifted Administer!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Everyone Wasn’t Happy:
1695 the O’odham rebelled and broke out of the mission at Tubutama and attempted to free other Indians at other missions. Father Kino arranged for peace talks, but when the O’Odham arrived at El Tupo, the Spanish opened fire and massacred the peace delegation.
1751 Luís Oacpicagigua led an O’odham revolt against the Spanish because of their policy of forced Indian labor. The revolt started in Saric where 18 Spanish were killed, but one priest escaped and spread word of the revolt. Oacpicagigua asked the Sobaipuri and the Apache to join the revolt, but they declined. The O’odham attacked and plundered a number of missions and Rancherias, including Caborca, Sonoita, Bac, and Guevavi. The O’odham killed more than 100 Spanish, including 2 priests. The Spanish killed 40 O’odham.
Father Luis Jayme Killed by Grumpy Parishioners Objecting to Enslavement!
Sobaipuri People:
San Pedro Sobaípuri (Quiburi) with a population of 400) accepted gifts of livestock, grain, trinkets, and were willing to endure baptism from the Spanish. The Sobaípuris accompanied the Spanish as guides and spies viewing their alliance as an advantage over the Apache. When General Juan Fernández de la Fuente arrived in Quiburi on his way to engage the Jocome, Jano, and Apache in battle, the Sobaipuri informed the Spanish that the Jocome and Jano were planning to ambush them in the Sierra de Chiricahua.
Sobaipuri Bi-Faces Spindle Whorls Frequently Poisoned! Used for Spinning Cotton
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628
Sobaípuri village, Quiburi, over looking the San Pedro River valley depicted as seen by the first Europeans!
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Hand Built with Mud and Brick!
Souls of the Believers!
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Summer Monsoon!
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No Longer a Mexican Sport!
Bull Doesn’t Seem Pleased with the Festivities!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Guaymas Port of Loading:
Guaymas, Sonora Mexico Facts:
Coat of arms Country Mexico State Sonora Founded 1769 Municipal Status 1825 Area 4,712.83 sq mi Elevation 30 ft Population 134,153 Time zone CST (UTC-6) Postal code 85400 Pronounced “Wajmas”
In Cahitia, “Guaymas” Means “To Throw Arrows to the Head"!
General José María Yáñez International Airport:
IATA: GYM – ICAO: MMGM Airport type Public Operator Aeropuertos y ServiciosAuxiliares Location Guaymas Elevation 59ft / 18m Runway Asphalt Length 7,700 ft. Total Passengers 49,665
Destinations:
Guerrero Negro, Hermosillo, La Paz, Loreto, San José del Cabo, Santa Rosalía, and Loreto.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628
242 miles from Nogales Port of Crossing!
Natural Deep Water Port, Guaymas is Mexico's 7th Largest Port with 4% of the Nation's Total Maritime Cargo!
Port of Guaymas!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Guaymas Port Capability:
Port authority is Administración Portuaria Integral (API) de Guaymas, S.A. de C.V. Its mission is to optimize the value of the port in furtherance of the region’s economic and social development.
Wharves:
1,200 meters or 3,937 ft
Dock Depth:
Depth Docks Meters Feet 2 13 43 1 12 39 2 9 30 1 4 13
Area:
Land - 83.7 hectares or 201.8 acres Water - 65.4 hectares or 157.7 acres
Consignments:
2008 Port Update- Newly constructed container terminal has capacity to process over 100 thousand containers per year.
Port Guaymas handles Petroleum products, refrigerated cargoes and perishables, mineral bulk cargoes, and bulk agricultural cargoes.
Australian Company BHP Billiton financed the minerals terminal to handle copper concentrates shipped from Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona with in international transit to China.
Rates - Obtained through International Logistic Solution’s pricing team.
2012 24th February - MSC, Mediterranean Shipping Company, plans to make its first container call at The Port of Guaymas, Sonora, leaving Guaymas with 200 20 ft and 140 40 ft containers.
MSC is focusing on the development of maquiladora manufacturers, agricultural and mining.
“MSC Prospect” in Port
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Local Color and Action:
Plaza de los Tres Presidentes:
Guaymas is the birthplace of three former Republic of Mexico presidents:
Abelardo Rodriguez
Plutarco Elias Calles
Adolfo de la Huerta Families Remain Politically Astute!
Catch 22 Starring Alan Arkin, Orson Welles, Martin Sheen, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins
The Mask of Zorro Starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta Jones.
Quotes From the Mask of Zorro
Were you looking for something? A sense of the miraculous in everyday life!
Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been three days since my last confession! Three days? How many sins could you have committed?
This is the house of God! We'll be gone before he gets back.
Be careful senorita, there are dangerous men about. Well if you see one, be sure to point him out.
Did You Miss Me?
This is going to take a lot of work!
Hollywood Came to Guaymas!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Economics:
Aquaculture and fishing employs 80% of Guaymas.
Species sold are sardines, shrimp, and squid. Shrimp being the largest catch.
A pearl growing facility, the only one of its kind in the Americas, produces pearls ranging in shades of gray, gold, bronze, olive green, black and pink.
Limited mining of graphite, gold, silver and lead occurs.
Maquiladoras produce clothing, electronics and automobile parts.
Guaymenas, Yaqui, Guaimas And Seri Indian Tribes Lived In This Natural Habitat!
Waters Of The Sea Of Cortez Provided An Abundance Of Food!
Tetakawi "Goat Teats" Mountain Supplied Mystical Powers For Their Warriors Defending Their Homes!
Named For The Guaymenas Tribe Now Extinct!
WOW!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Environmental:
Puma
Lynx
Sonoran Desert Inhabitants!
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Desert Tortoise
Desert Bighorn Sheep Bobcat Kittens
Desert Diversity!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Carnival Tradition:
1890 marked the beginning of Carnival in Guaymas after the Reform War and French Intervention in Mexico, when Guaymas and the rest of the country experienced a period of peace and economic development. The success of Guaymas’ port attracted European immigrants and visitors. They brought the idea of organizing a Carnival similar to those celebrated in Europe.
The Carnival event was restricted to the upper classes with lower classes watching the parade. Tradition continued until the Mexican Revolution.
1913 Alvaro Obregon took control of the port, and the war devastated the area economically. Those siding with Porfirio Díaz left.
People go to 13 de Julio Plaza dressed in costumes. Masks hiding identity was permitted until 1960, banned Celebrating! A Human Condition! due to violence.
Laughter and Fun!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Guaymas History and Commerce:
42,013 BP to 3,500 BP - Hosts of travelers past through Guaymas searching for well-being while spurred by their ever probing curiosity!
3,501 BP - The Guaymenas, Seris, Yaquis, Pima, Opata, and Mayo tribes began frequenting Guaymas. Defending their lives and well-being, these tribes resisted the Spanish enslavement for 294 years before capitulating. Spain didn’t occupy Guaymas until the 18th century. Time line of their existence is found in exquisitely fashioned stone implements.
1533 - Captain Diego de Guzman arrived at the Yaqui River.
1539 - Francisco de Ulloa, companion of Hernando Cortes, is credited with discovering the Bay of Guaymas. His two Spanish ships, “Santa Agueda” and “El Trinidad”, arrived at Guaymas Bay to deliver supplies for Coronado’s exploratory excursion searching for the 7 Cities of gold. Francisco de Ulloa was to furnish supplies for the excursion, take updates and riches back to New Spain, and to supplement soldiers, horse, and cattle.
Montezuma Pass
Strategic point of communications was 6,575 foot Montezuma Pass near modern day Sierra Vista Arizona.
The Sea of Cortes, 245.8 miles from this vantage point, is visible with glasses on a clear day!
Ironically, 15 miles north and 337 years later, in 1877 Fort Huachuca became the US Army Communications and Intelligence center.
Coronado Lost Contact With The Ships!
Spent 2 Years Searching For Riches!
Ships Returned To New Spain!
He Walked Home!
Died Bankrupt and Disgraced in 1554!
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 1540 - Coronado brought the Cattle Industry to Pimaria Alta (Sonora Mexico and the Southwest United States).
1610’s - Jesuits founded eight mission villages with the Yaqui.
1687 - The Jesuit Missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino arrived and built several catholic missions in the Pimeria Alta region.
1697 - Juan María de Salvatierra and Eusebio Kino asked for permission to evangelize the area which was granted.
1701 - Padres Salvatierra and Eusebio Kino established the Loreto mission inland from where Guaymas is now. To receive supplies by ship and evangelize the Guaymas Indians, the Jesuits founded another small mission on the bay, which they called San José de Guaymas. The mission was short lived being destroyed by the Guaymenas Indians. The Seri repeatedly attacked the San José mission, forcing it to be abandoned and rebuilt several times. The last time this mission was abandoned was 1759.
Another attempt in 1769 proved to be successful. The San Jose de Guaymas restored mission remains in service. The new town of San Jose de Guaymas was named and numerous small villages located around the area. Largest village remains inhabited, about 12 miles to the south of Guaymas, with a population of 200. Area has been known as San José de Guaymas, San Fernando de Guaymas, Guaymas village, Port of Guaymas, and finally Guaymas de Zaragoza. Manuel Diaz was placed in charge of Guaymas.
1767 - Viceroy Marqués de Croix ordered a military offensive, the Sonora Expedition, to subdue the Seri and Pima tribes. After subduing the Seri, the Spanish built an adobe fort with four towers in Guaymas, initially under the command of Captain Lorenzo Cancio. No traces of the fort remain today.
1769 - Guaymas Bay was formally mapped and the city of Guaymas was officially founded by José Gálvez in Real de Alamos on behalf of the vice regal government. August 31, Don Juan de Gálvez General del Virreinato of New Spain expressed the following decree "In order that the port of Guaymas could prosper, they will construct houses and stores, with land being distributed at the same time to individuals." Despite the decree, no colonists settled there until the early 19th century.
1780s - Supposedly only one inhabitant in Guaymas, “TioPepe” (Uncle Pepe), who was said to be a drunk and a thief.
1811 - Commercial maritime traffic was authorized, and customs were established.
1813 - The Ship “King Fernando” anchored in the bay for 5 months performing in depth explorations.
1814 March 26 - Spanish Parliament approved maritime traffic for Guaymas.
1820 - Guaymas received the name San Fernando de Guaymas. Village began to be populated by farmers and ranchers, who held large properties but did not have markets for their products. Farming was on a subsistence level.
1821 - Sr. John A. Robinson, American citizen and later consular agent in Guaymas, in his memoirs said, “San Fernando of Guaymas had only a house used as customs and a hut at the foot of the hill occupied by a thief”.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 1823 - Ships visited the bay intermittently but only one house was here for customs purposes (Boat travel was safer than land).
1827 - The first commercial movement is registered in the Port of Guaymas, with the arrival of four ships bringing 650 tons of products with a value of 104,947 pesos. The Guaymenas people moved to a town called Belén and vanished as a tribe.
1836 - Port construction with the building of the first wharf
1847 - During the Mexican American War, American warships “Portsmouth”, “Congress”, “Eagle”, “Reliant”, “Dale” and “Argos” anchored near the Pajaros Island and the Almagre Grande, then fired on the town. U.S. captured ports and town keeping them until 1848.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 1848 - Pacific Mail Steamship Company:
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18 as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants. The company was a charter member of the Dow Jones Transportation Average.
1847 Arnold Harris had acquired the right to transport mail under contract from the United States from the Isthmus of Panama to California.
1848 Mail route became insignificant with the advent of the California Gold Rush.
The first three steamships constructed for Pacific Mail were the SS California, the SS Oregon, and the SS Panama. The Panama was sold to the Mexican government in 1868 and was renamed the Juarez. SS California, Pacific Mail's First Ship
1867 the company launched the first regularly scheduled trans-Pacific steamship service with routes between San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. This accounts for the influx Chinese immigrants into Mexico and Arizona as mine and railroad laborers. Also accounting for the importation of Opium.
The Mexican West Coast Steamship Co. operated 13 of Pacific Mails steamships with the ship “Curazao” making monthly trips between Guaymas, San Francisco, La Paz, Mazatlan, and San Blas.
1925, 77 years and 51 ships later, Pacific Mail ran into financial difficulties and went out of business.
Their last ship “SS San Juan” (1882-1929) had been built and launched by W. Roach and Son of Chester, Pennsylvania was sold to W.R. Grace and Company.
Due to her age, she was quickly sold to the White Flyer Line. Then sold to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Navigation Company.
1929 August 29, after a collision with the Standard Oil Company tanker S.C.T. 1906 Advertisement Dodd, the San Juan sank in less than 3 minutes. “World Today” magazine
1851 - French vagabond, Marques de Pindray, jumped from his boat to land, accompanied by eighty eight followers. A riot broke out resulting in numerous deaths.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 1853 - William Walker, a “freebooter” (Pirate), captured Guaymas.
1854 - Guaymas was the target of several filibusters, unauthorized military expeditions from foreign nations, designed to foment rebellion. The crew of the English sailing vessel “Challenge” instigated one episode. Then the French ship “La Belle” commanded by Count Gastón Raousett-Boulbón, on 13 July attacked Guaymas intent on capturing all of Sonora. Port was successfully defended.
1859 - National government elevated the town to city as a reward for this action with the formal name Guaymas de Zaragoza.
1860 - Guaymas reached international importance, since it was the supply gate in the American Civil War and in the State of Arizona war against its resident Indians. War material and supplies arrived and were transported in mule caravans along a commercial corridor from Guaymas to Tucson, Arizona.
1865 - French Emperor Maximilian attack Guaymas forcing the Republican forces to retreat. The French occupied the city until 1866.
1880 - Contract signed with the steamship “Newbwen” of California and the Railroad of Sonora initiated travel to Guaymas. A wharf was constructed to receive materials and machineries for the railroad.
1890 - Steamships, Korrigan, Korrigan II, Korrigan III and Korrigan IV brought Santa Rosalia copper to Guaymas.
1890s - 10,000 residents and relatively prosperous. German boats brought china, porcelain, kitchen utensils, cutlery and exquisite linens from England.
1910 - Ships from California, China, England, France and Germany were regularly unloading freight at Guaymas for exports to the U.S. While imports and exports declined, commercial fishing gained in importance.
1913 - With Revolution again to Mexico, the port suddenly became supply points for General Francisco (Poncho) Villas “Army of the North”. Five military ships belonging to Federal forces appeared in the bay. General Alvaro Obregon of the rebel army ordered the bombing of these ships using the aircraft named “Sonora.”, thus becoming the first aerial bombardment of a naval target in the world.
1925 - The first modern port facilities was built for the Mexican navy.
1942 - Due to fire that caused massive destruction in the wharf, ccommercial pier and warehouse was built.
1950 - Pier for the national oil company PEMEX was constructed and updated in 1961.
1964 - Naval ship repair station Varadero Nacional and grain terminal AlmacenesNacional de Depósito constructed.
1972 - Ferry connection with Santa Rosalía, Baja California was established.
1980s - Private construction projects enlarged the port, including those built by the Compañía Mexicana de Cobre, CementosTolteca and Compañía Mexicana de Ácido Sulfúrico.
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La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628 Pirates and Heroes:
When a stash of gold and silver from the nearby mines was brought to town and a ship pulled in for it, pirates would show up, capture the ore, scuttle the ship, and then sack the town.
In the plaza near the church stands a statue of one of the bravest of the Guaymas heroes, General Jose Maria Yanez. The outstanding deed of valor attributed to this "Defender of Guaymas" was his feat of outsmarting the pirate, Count Rousset de Bourbon, who, with 400 other cutthroats, descended on the town in 1854.
The initial attack overwhelmed the local militia forces. The battle lasting 4 days and was a stand-off until the pirates saw a large company of cavalry charging down a distant hill, threatening to cut them off from their shore boats. The freebooters surrendered and, according to legend, the leaders, including de Bourbon, were hung without learning that the cavalry was in reality unarmed women dressed as men. His surviving pirate crew disappeared and scattered into the county side!
Customarily pirates buried treasure in sturdy chests. Count de Bourbon was different in that he used barrels or casks which could be easily roll with a couple of men. This trademark is an indication that the Count was a success at his chosen trade, at least up until he had his neck stretched at Guaymas.
His treasure barrels have been found around the Sea of Cortez.
Barrels thought to be still hidden near La Paz and Bahia Agua Verde.
Intrigue:
Fascinating peek hints Guaymas has Plots for hundreds of books and thrilling rich shows!
Stories abound both heroes and villains, with stories of other’s yet to be shared!
Perspective:
Forwarding freight to Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai for 146 years!
Perfect “Terminus” for Supply Chains!
Tucson Guaymas Corridor!
Attraction for Millenniums! Road Runner!
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Endangered “Washingtoniafilifera” California Fan Palms and Brittlebush Page 36 of 36
La Loma Grande Industrial Park ♦ PO Box 2080 ♦ Nogales Arizona 85628