Cucurpe

In 1647 the Jesuit missionary Marcos del Río founded the first Spanish settlement with the category of mission and gave it the name of Los Santos Reyes de Cucurpe.

[4] This town was once the considered the "Rim of Christendom" and it was from here that Father Eusebio Kino rode out to do his now historic work in the area then known as the Pimería Alta.

[5] There are two rivers that have clear waters for most of the year and turbulent currents in the rainy season that lasts from June through August.

[6] Most of the work force is employed in agriculture, which concentrates on growing grasses for cattle fodder.

This former gold-silver-molybdenum mine, located about 3 km SE of Cucurpe, is famous among mineral collectors for producing exceptionally fine specimens of wulfenite.