The municipality lies next to the large urban center of Ciudad Obregón in Cajeme.

The indigenous community is very large, with more than 9,000 residents identified as Yaqui in the 2000 census.

[1] The municipality's main economic activity is intensive agriculture, with more than 300 square kilometers under irrigation by canal.

[citation needed] The coastline in the south is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long.

Industries are small, and consist chiefly of packing houses for vegetables and liquid fertilizer production.