New Navarre Nueva Navarra
1565 – September 1821
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New Navarre (1794)
Status	Part ofNew Spain
Capital	Arizpe
Government	Monarchy
History
• Established	1565
• Disestablished	September 27 1821
Succeeded by Sonora y Sinaloa

New Navarre (Spanish:Nueva Navarra) was at first an informal name given to the silver-mining region north of Sinaloa. Just before his death in 1711, theJesuitEusebio Kino drew a map of the area with that name. New Navarre would have included the Pimería Alta, where Kino spent 24 years establishing missions, along with the Navarrese Juan Matheo Manje.^[1] Later Nueva Navarra was a province in theProvincias Internas, one of the frontier provinces of theViceroyalty of New Spain. Brigadier Pedro de Rivera, who visited the northern presidios from 1724 to 1728, suggested to the viceroyJuan de Acuña, Marquis of Casafuerte, the political and administrative reorganization of the northwest provinces. The viceroy supported the idea, and it was approved byPhilip V of Spain in 1732, and executed the following year with the appointment of the first governor, Manuel Bernal de Huidobro, at that time mayor of Sinaloa. In the branches of government, finance and war, the governor was directly subject to the viceroy, while the field of justice was under the jurisdiction of theRoyal Audience of Guadalajara (Real Audiencia de Guadalajara) of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. By 1806, the province was generally recognized as Sonora or Nueva Navarra, with the capital inArizpe, and including the area comprisingSinaloa (de Iriarte, 1806). AfterIndependence Sonora y Sinaloa became one of the constituent states of theMexican Republic. TheSonoran Desertecoregion covers much of the state.

In the early years of European migration to Nueva Navarra, the Basques became a significant proportion of the population. TheBasque immigrants reached 6% of total migrants in the first 15 years of colonization, the same percentage as those from theCastile orExtremadura, most populated regions. More specific data shows ratios between 8% and 16% of Basques in the nuclei urban settlements of those first decades, indicating a trend which would persist in the future: the Basque-Navarre preference for urban settlement (Boyde-Bowman, 1964).

• Territorial evolution of Mexico
• Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert
• Spanish colonization of the Americas

• Boyde-Bowman, Peter. (1964).Indice geobiográfico de cuarenta mil pobladores de América en el Siglo XVI. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
• Constitucion politica del estado libre de Occidente: Sancionada por su congreso en el año de 1825 en fuerte. (1825). Occidente, Mexico: Imp. Occidental. (Annotated Spanish version.)
• de Iriarte, Tomas. (1806).Lecciones Instructivas sobre la Historia y la Geografía (Vol. 3). Malaga, Spain: Francisco Martinez de Aguilar.
• Olea, Héctor Rosendo. (1985).Sinaloa a través de sus constituciones. Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas. México: UNAM.

• Historical geography of Mexico
• 19th century in Mexico
• New Spain
• Colonial Mexico
• Sonora
• Sinaloa
• Spanish colonization of the Americas
• 1565 establishments in New Spain
• Former Spanish colonies

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