Nonoava

Nonoava lies on the right bank of the Nonoava River in the mountains of Chihuahua, in the country of the Tarahumara peoples. In 1676 the Jesuit missionary Francis Artuaga founded the settlement and named it Nuestra Señora de Montserrat de Nonoava. Before the mission, Indigenous communities lived across these highlands, and the mission then gathered local people around its church.