Guachochi

Guachochi is a population of the kingdom of Chihuahua, in Mexico, located in the Sierra Madre Occidental. It is the primary urban agreement and head of the municipality of the equal call, one of the maximum important within the territory of the Raramuri or Tarahumara kingdom, inside the center of the Sierra Tarahumara. The contemporary city of Guachochi become founded within the center of the 18th century by way of Jesuit non secular with the person of a visiting town, that is, it did now not have a permanent resident priest, for which it relied on a missionary town.

For a long term it become a completely small settlement of Spanish starting place and mestizo in whose surroundings are located many ranchers Raramuris, for the reason that region was a kind of lagoon with the aid of the muddy soil, swampy land to which numerous migrant birds arrived, from wherein it comes name. From 1825 it was a part of a municipal segment with head in Balleza, to the South East; in 1847 it occurred to rely on Guadalupe y Calvo, a super mining center to the south, however separated via the deep canyon of La Sinforosa.