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Sinoquipe

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Sinoquipe is a town in the Arizpe Municipality located in the north-central region of the Mexican state of Sonora, in the western part of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

The town was founded in 1646 as a visiting town of the Jesuit mission of Our Lady of the Assumption of Arizpe under the name of Saint Ignatius of Sinoquipe by the Jesuit missionary Ignacio Molarja.