Bavispe, Centro Sierra, Sonora, Mexico Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Bavispe family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
municipalities and Bavispe was one of these to manage to have a municipal government.
 * The territory that the municipality currently occupies was first inhabited by indigenous Opata people.
 * In the 17th century, Spanish explorers and conquistadors who, together with Jesuit missionaries, arrived in this area advancing with the colonization of New Spain,
 * On March 19, 1812, the Spanish Constitution of C&#225;diz entered into force, which established that towns with more than 1,000 inhabitants were declared as
 * Later in 1831 a new constitution determined that the state be divided into parties, and the Bavispe region was left under the administration of the Moctezuma Party,
 * On May 13, 1848, the Moctezuma District was created and Bavispe was also part of it.
 * On December 4, 1931 it was named as a free and definitive municipality, segregating itself from the old municipality of Oputo, today called Villa Hidalgo
 * The municipality of Bavispe has a population of approximately 1,500 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1867-1995 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Parish Records

 * 1904-1911 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census

 * 1930 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio de La Mora
 * Address: La Mora, Bavispe


 * Cementerio de Bavispe
 * Direcci&#243;n: Miguel Alem&#225;n Valdez, Bavispe
 * Find a Grave