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| Location: | Cananea, South of Nogales, Sonora State. |
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| Address: | Museo de La Lucha Obera, Tel: +52-, Fax: +52-, Museo de La Lucha Obera, Avenida Juárez, Cananea, Sonora State, Mexico. |
| Last update: | $Date: 2008/10/09 18:35:32 $ |
Cananea is the center of the Mexican copper mining, with the Del Cobre Mine, which is the most productive copper mine of Mexico. Although still a working open pit mine it can be visited with a permit. The Feria del Cobre (Copper Fair) is the most important festival of Cananea and is celebrated during the last week of June. It includes folk dances, shows and horse races. The most famous sights of the town are the Museo de La Lucha Obera (Cananea Jailhouse Museum) and the mansion of copper king William Cornell Greene.
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The scenic Sierra de Pintos is the setting for historic and still important copper mining centre of Cananea. The museum is on Avenida Juárez. It is a former city jail and houses an exhibition dedicated to the miners strike of 1906 against the American owned Cananea Consolidated Copper Company. Hundreds of Arizona Rangers crossed the border to join the Sonora militia in putting down the strike. Text by Tony Oldham (2004). With kind permission. |
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