3. Principal Information:
Guaymas's Municipality is one of 72 municipalities in
which there is divided the Free and Sovereign State of
Sonorous; located on the coast of the Gulf of
California, his head-board is the Heroic City and
Guaymas's Port of Zaragossa.
Guaymas is one of the Ports of Mexico called " of
Height " on the coast of the Mexican Pacífico, Is one of
the principal producing cities of camarón in the north
of Mexico and previously also it was emphasized by his
capture of oysters.
4. It tells the history:
In 1539, the exploratory ships Saint Agueda and the
Trinidad, sent by Hernán Cortés, came to Guaymas's bay;
the captain decided to give the name of " port of ports ",
due to the pleasing impression that gave the place to the
conquerors. It stooped to land to taking possession in
name of the King of Spain, giving the name of " Bay of the
possession ", to what today it is Guaymas's Bay.
His first settlers, an ancient tribe called the Guaimas, of the
family of the Seris, were living of the fishing, were using
garment consisted of pens of pelican. They were trading in
time of peace with other tribes, skins of marine birds and
go out, in exchange for fruits of less arid lands.
5. Communications and transport.
Guaymas's municipality possesses an infrastructure for the
transport consisting of a network road of 986.8 kilometres.
It possesses in addition a branch of ferreous lines of 4.5
kilometres, an international airport, 8 air-strips and a port
with a total length of moors of 17,602 meters distributed
between the port of height and the extension of moors for
the fishing activity.
For the public transport of load, Guaymas's Port possesses
a head office of services of load and has decisive the
problem of lack of lines of buses to extend the offer of
passage.
Particularly the services of mail and telegraphs that possess
5 offices, being well-known the lack of agencies.
6. Ethnic groups.
The indigenous presence in the municipality performs
great importance, provided that it relies on 17,182
inhabitants that there speak some indigenous
language, which represent 11.5 % of the total of the
population of the municipality.
In agreement to the results that there presents the
Count II of Population and Housing of 2010, in the
municipality they live a total of 17,182 persons who
speak some indigenous language.
7. Demographic evolution.
In conformity with the Count of Population and Housing of 2010,
Guaymas's city was possessing(relying on) a population of 113,082
inhabitants.
The total municipal population possesses(relies on) 149,299
inhabitants in his(her,your) approximately 42 localities and
approximately 310 common lands and settlements.
149,299 Guaymenses represents 5.6 % of the total population of the
condition(state) (2,662,480)
It thinks that 50.06 % of the inhabitants is men, and 49.94 % is
women.
The majority of the municipal population they are young, which
represent a wide potential of human resources.
82 per cent of the total population of the municipality one agrees in
the urban localities, whereas 18 remaining per cent resides in the
rural localities.
8. Economy:
Guaymas's economy consists principally of the fishing,
agriculture, ranching(cattle), industry and tourism.
9. Fishing:
It is the most important activity and principal source of income.
The fishing guaymense occupies 11,800 persons in the capture
and other 325 devote themselves to the acuacultura. It
contributes 70 per cent of the fishing total state production.
The municipality relies on more than 83 % of the wharves that
they operate in the State.
The fleet is composed of 359 crafts camaroneras, 32 sardineras, 3
escameras and 910 boats, for a total of 1,304.
55 per cent of the captures is commercialized in the State and the
rest, that is to say, 45 per cent takes the domestic market and the
exterior as a final destination.
10. Agriculture:
The infrastructure of irrigation for the agriculture besides 186 wells,
account with the Dam Ignacio Alatorre with total capacity of 27 million
700 thousand cubic meters; and I repress of warm water in Vícam with
capacity of extraction of 15 million 300 thousand cubic meters of water
and 345 kilometres of redressed channels in conduction.
The agriculture in the municipality develops in a total surface of 42,291
hectares.
The principal cultures are: wheat, soy bean, cártamo, maize, cotton and
some vegetables and fruit trees like the gourd and the watermelon.
The cultivated surface presented a decline of 2.3 per cent in annual
average during the last 5 years.
11. Ranching:
In the cattle activity, the bovine ranching with 72,875 heads
is the most important.
The production of bovine meat, milk and egg they
presented a decline between(among) 1990 and 1995, while
the production of porcine meat and of bird they grew.
There exist subused resources that with suitable supports
can generate significant income by means of the farming
integration carrying out cultures of forages in agricultural
zones for his crop for shepherding of producing cattle of
meat and milk.
12. Industry:
The manufacturing industry of food production of fishing origin
stands out as the principal branch of activity.
The industrial fishing plant consists of 5 enlatadoras, 8 flour ones and
12 congeladoras.
In the last 3 years the occupation of this branch of activity diminished
from 4,153 employments to 2,153.
Guaymas's Port has had an important growth in the sector maquilador
of the aerospace branch being located to Sonorous as the third major
supplier for the above mentioned industry, as the aerospace industry
also the region has had an important growth in self-propelling
investment and medicates.
In the industry of the construction there exist 32 companies that they
dedicate to the building of housings and real estate in general and
other 10 to the construction and repair of crafts.
13. Tourism:
Guaymas Offers many such tourist attractions as: snorquel, sports
fishing, cavalcade, tours ecoturísticos, cycling, skin-diving, etc.
The tourist zone of beach, is located to the northwest of the port, being
the region of San Carlos' Bay and his surroundings.
In addition it has some architectural attractions.
Between the attractions ecoturísticos the reserves are Tideland of the
Soldier, Isla San Pedro I Nonslacken and Nacapule's Cannon with
endemic species.
The most famous festivity of the port is the Carnival and the parties of
the Vermilion sea.
The tourist activity generates more than 8,000 employments, of which
2,700 are direct.
It counts in addition, with 4 tourist condominiums, 2 sea-coasts with
spaces to give lodging to 798 crafts and 5 fields for tows with a total of
729 spaces.
