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Nogales is located 60 miles south of Tucson,
Arizona and 140 miles north of Hermosillo, Sonora
on the US/Arizona-Sonora, Mexico border.
History
In 1650, Jose Romo de Vivar became the first
European who is thought to have visited the area
of Nogales. Early in the eighteenth Francisco
Eusebio Kino, an Italian missionary, established
several missions around Nogales, notably at Tumacacori,
Huevavi, and Cibuta. The city of Nogales was officially
founded in 1882 along a north-south rail line
to promote trade between the United States and
Mexico, and in 1920 it received its name and was
the first city in Sonora to initiate manufacturing
industry. Nowadays, it is still the main industrial
manufacturing and exportation city in the state
and has the main customs and immigration services
in Sonora.
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