Soyopa

Soyopa lies beside the Yaqui River in eastern Sonora, where the river runs between dry hills toward the Gulf of California. The valley connects mountain communities with the lower river country of the Yaqui people. Jesuit missionaries entered the region in the seventeenth century, establishing missions and outlying settlements along its waterways. Near Soyopa, Tónichi became a visita, or dependent mission settlement, in 1628.