Ciudad Obregón is the second largest city in the state of Sonora, Mexico. Its main economic activity is agriculture, centered around the important irrigation systems of the Yaqui Valley located south of the city. The city originated in 1906 when the railway reached the area, enabling the integration of the Yaqui and Mayo peoples into domestic and foreign markets through agriculture. Today it has nearly 300,000 inhabitants and is a center for tourism, arts, culture and baseball fans in the region. Its cuisine highlights dishes from the Yaqui people like wakabaki broth and caguamanta stingray tacos.

1. CD. OBREGON

2. Ciudad Obregon is the county seat of Cajeme, is the second city
in size and importance of the State of Sonora (Mexico). It is a
city whose main economic activity was agriculture, which is
widely performed in the Yaqui Valley is located south of the city,
with one of the country's most important irrigation systems.

3. A LITTLE OF THEIR HISTORY
 The origins of this town date back to 1906
when the railway company Ferrocarril Sud
Pacific reached this area of ​the Yaqui, this
way, it enabled the incorporation of
Eastern Yaqui and Mayo to domestic and
foreign markets, attracting a wave of
investors and settler populations that gave
rise to the case of Cajeme.

4. POPULATION
 According to the results of the Population and
Housing Census of 2010 INEGI 1 Obregón has
298.625 inhabitants. Meanwhile the town of
409.310 inhabitants has Cajeme.

5. GEOGRAPHY
 It is located south of the state, 50 km from the
coast of the Sea of Cortez and 115 km of high
mountains (above 1500 m), 240 km far from
Hermosillo, the state capital.

6. TOURISM

7. NAINARI LAGOON
 It is an artificial lake and a family
entertainment place where you can
practice sports, surrounded by trees and
views of beautiful sunsets. Also selling
coconuts is a consuming to visit lagoon
tradition. This place is located beside the
Playground " Ostimuri " which is another
family entertainment center , in particular
children , here are rides , petting zoo ,
snack and food stalls .

8. LAGOON TYROLEAN NAINARI
 The " Zip " is a new open to the public
from April 4, 2012 attraction . It is a rope
that crosses the lagoon Nainari through
which people with a pulley starting from
the playground to the Laguna Ostimuri
Nainari slide .

9. FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND
CULTURE TETABIATE
 This festival of art and culture is performed in the
month of November to celebrate the anniversary of
the founding of the town of Cajeme supported by the
Municipal Cultural Institute and the National Council
for Culture and the Arts ( CONACULTA ) . In this
festival music, painting , cinema , poetry , book and
the culture and traditions of the Yaqui ethnicity shows
offered .

10. GASTRONOMY
 Who can visit Ciudad Obregon must try
its exquisite cuisine , which has passed
from generation to generation managing
to satisfy even the most discerning
palate. Our city provides culture and
modernity in each of their dishes creating
dynamic and flavorful line of our culture .

11. WAKABAKI
 The Yaqui ethnicity, one of the largest of Mexico
use of natural elements inherited wakabaki us , a
broth that is one of the main traditional dishes
prepared on major holidays. Its ingredients are:
chickpeas, beef rib , pumpkin , potato, cabbage,
carrot and green beans . Its preparation starts with
cutting the wood and sacrifice of beef to be served
to feed the guests at the feast.

12. CAGUAMANTA
 Typical dish made ​from stingray and shrimp generally prepared
as broth in which meat stingray , shrimp and vegetables added .
Broth in dish is served or prepared tacos caguamanta , when the
broth is served only called Vichy , in some places the same broth
with shrimp is known as chucki . Its name derives from the word
loggerhead and stingray , originally prepared this dish
loggerheads but from the ban on fishing of this marine species ,
it was decided to replace the loggerhead by stingray meat . This
dish was created in the late nineteenth century in Obregon City.

13. MAIN SPORT

14. BASEBALL
 Baseball is the sport that has the largest number
of fans in the city about 60% of the people of the
city he calls himself fond of baseball, the home
team are the Yaquis de Obregon, which
participate in the Mexican League Pacific.