Kiasi Jibua in El Júpare

Kiasi Jibua

El Júpare, Sonora, Mexico

The Kiasi Jibua comedor prepares traditional ethnic Mayo meals and baked goods in El Júpare, Sonora.

Stop by to taste unique culinary treats cooked over a wood fire, like wakabaki stew, bread, and tortillas made from corn, wheat, garbanzo and flour. The kitchen also serves a delicious cup of coffee.

And in addition to the food and coffee, you can enjoy the cultural ambiance of the place.

The kitchens are made from a local construction technique that uses interwoven giant reeds, with pots in traditional tree branch stands on either side. There are also unique wood carvings of traditional Mayo masks carved into a tree on one side of the dining area.

Kiasi Jibua is also the site of a store that sells unique, beautiful works of art and crafts by local Mayo artisans.

We recommend that you visit the kitchens and store when you visit El Jupare, it is located on the side of the road as you enter the town on highway 178 from Huatabampo.

See the Google map of El Júpare to find the location of Kiasi Jibua and other sites of interest in the Mayo pueblo.

Kiasi Jibua

Las Cocinitas and Artisania
El Júpare, Huatabampo
Sonora, Mexico 85900
+52 647 106-2132

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The Hu-Tezzo Didactic Museum

Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico

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The Hu-Tezzo teaching museum in Navojoa, Sonora is a journey back into the prehistoric past of Southern Sonora, Mexico. Established in February of 1997, the site is the realization of a vision by its founder Professor Lombardo Rios Ramirez, a local anthropologist and historian who has worked tirelessly to preserve and educate others about the history and culture of this region.

Hu-Tezzo is a word in the Mayo language that means “cave,” an apt name for this fascinating place, where Rios has painstakingly re-created scenes from nine caverns where prehistoric residents left paintings, petroglyph rock-art etchings and other artifacts such as remains of prehistoric animals and utinsels made of clay and stone.

Museum visitors are led through the various chambers that are reproductions of actual caverns that were discovered near Navojoa, with details that include true replicas of cave art, and other environmental aspects such as stalactites, stalagmites and running water.

Due to their fragility, and historical and cultural significance, the locations of the real caves are kept secret from the public. Because of this, Professor Rios created this marvelous place to give people the chance to experience the caves without having to be in them.

The museum is designated as a teaching museum, because its purpose is not only to show people details of the caves, but to educate them about what we can know about the lives of the prehistoric inhabitants through the art and artifacts that they left behind. The museum actively provides educational programs for students and other visitors.

If you enjoy learning about the prehistoric past, the Hu-Tezzo Educational Museum is a definite must-see when you visit Navojoa. You will need to don a safety helmet before entering the cave replicas, and some of the passageways between caverns have low ceilings that require a bit of crawling, but the museum is a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable experience.

In addition to this effort, Professor Lombardo Rios has been an integral part of many projects in and near Navojoa to educate the public about the history, culture and traditions of the peoples of the region. They include the Regional Museum of the Mayo, and the Eco Museum at Tehuelibampo.

Profesor Lombardo Rios - Museo Didáctico Hu-Tezzo - Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico

The Hu-Tezzo Didactic Museum

Calle 5 de Mayo 110
Colonia Constitucion
Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico 85860

Professor Lombardo Rios and Sr. Martin Soria, President of the Office of Conventions and Visitors (OCV) Navojoa

Museo Hu-Tezzo - Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico

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Indigenous Radio XEETCH in Etchojoa, Sonora

Radio Indigena XEETCH 700 am

Carretera Navojoa-Huatabampo km 27
C.P. 85280
Etchojoa, Sonora, Mexico
+52 (647) 425 0043

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XEETCH – The Voice of the Three Rivers

Radio XEETCH, 700am in Etchojoa, Sonora, is a member of the System of Indigenous Cultural Broadcasters (SRCI). It is supported by the CDI, the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples.

The SRCI is a network of community radio stations that serve sectors of the nation’s indigenous peoples, with a mission to promote the multicultural nature of Mexico through the promotion of the country’s 31 indigenous languages.

XEETCH was established on February 19, 1996. It broadcasts in the languages of Spanish, Guarijo, Yaqui and Mayo to the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua, and is the only indigenous community radio station in the SRCI network in the state of Sonora.

The principal goal of radio XEETCH is to “promote, rescue and revitalize the strengthening, preservation and dissemination of cultural expressions that give identity to indigenous peoples.”

The station has a Consultative Council composed of six members from each ethnic group, chosen according to the customs and customs of each community, with the aim of forging inter-community ties between the indigenous groups – the Mayo (or yoreme, the people) of Sonora and Sinaloa, the Yaqui (or yoreme), and the Guarijío (or warihó in Chihuahua and macurawe in Sonora).

The main function of the Council is to review, propose and adapt programming content according to consultations that are constantly carried out in the indigenous communities, and which deal with the needs and problems of each one of them.

The Council also works to strengthen ties with other regional indigenous groups, namely the Pima, the Tarahumara and between the migrants of the coast of Hermosillo and of the valleys of Sinaloa.

To accomplish those goals, the Voice of Three Rivers broadcasts community-based news and information, has call-in talk shows, airs information about public programs related to health, education, assistance, human rights and other topics. It also plays traditional indigenous music.

Radio station XEETCH has a group of indigenous correspondents who volunteer to conduct interviews and collect sound recordings in their communities. The volunteers also translate radio content into their language, host bilingual programs and receive feedback from their audience. The sound materials acquired by the correspondents give variety and richness to the station’s programming and help to preserve historical and cultural aspects of their indigenous heritage.

This radio broadcasting station is an important local and regional cultural resource, especially in promoting the languages, music and traditions of the three indigenous groups in the region of the “three rivers” – the River Mayo, The River Yaqui and the River Fuerte.

See photos from their 22nd anniversary celebration

Sr. Severiano Valenzuela Buitimea - Radio Indigena XEETCH 700 am - Etchojoa, Sonora, Mexico

The General Obregon House Museum in Huatabampo

The General Obregon House Museum

Huatabampo, Sonora

Museo Casa General Álvaro Obregón

Avenida Francisco I. Madero 17
Huatabampo, Sonora
+52 (647) 426-1069

The museum opens at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday, it is closed on Monday and Tuesday

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This unique museum in Huatabampo, Sonora offers a glimpse into the life of one of Sonora’s most accomplished sons, Mexican General and President Alvaro Obregon Sacido, in a location where Obregon had lived.

The house was built in 1895, and General Obregon bought it in 1904, adding a second floor to make it the only two-story building in Huatabampo at that time. In 1907 his wife Refugio died from complications of childbirth, and Obregon’s sisters moved into the house to help take care of his two children.

Obregon left Huatabampo in 1912 to serve during the Mexican Revolution, leaving his sisters and children at the home. He married Maria Tapia in 1916 and after the revolution he began his political campaign in Nogales for the office of president of the Republic of Mexico.

General Obregon served as president of Mexico from 1920 – 1924, after which he returned to Sonora. He won re-election in 1928, but was assassinated in July 1928 at the age of 48, before he could take office. Read more about the life of Alvaro Obregon.

The Obregon House was sold to the bank in 1958 and was purchased by a bank employee, Teófilo Villegas, who rented the house to various families until it eventually deteriorated and was abandoned.

Mr. Villegas was going to demolish the structure, but Dr. Rodolfo Moreno Gamez, the municipal president of Huatabampo, convinced him to sell it to the state of Sonora. Then-governor Samuel Ocaña Garcia authorized the purchase of the house for one million pesos, and the state began to renovate the property in 1987.

The building was opened the following year as a local cultural center where workshops were held in music, theater and visual arts. But not long after that it was decided that the house should become a museum in honor of General Obregon.

Maestro Emilio López Robles was put in charge of the project, and Ana Silvia Laborin Abascal from the state museum, along with Professor Salvador Mendoza Moroyoqui, initiated the investigation and collection of objects for the museum.

The museum opened in 1989 with Director Manuel de Jesus Reyes in charge. In July of that year the family of General Obregon donated his 1927 Cadillac, in which he had survived a bombing attempt on his life on September 13, 1927. The Cadillac is on permanent display in the back courtyard of the home.

The Obregon House Museum is an interesting place to visit, especially for those who are interested in the life of this great man. The museum is in six display areas in the two stories of the house, each one with a theme related to the life and history of General Obregon that encompass his family life, role in the Mexican Revolution, his campaign for president and his assassination.

Even if you do not speak Spanish, the photos and displays are interesting beyond words, making this a must-see when you are in Huatabampo, Sonora.

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The Palacio Municipal in Huatabampo, Sonora

Palacio Municipal - Huatabampo Sonora Mexico

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The original town hall of Huatabampo, Sonora still stands with its emblematic clock tower, adjacent to Plaza Juarez, the city’s main plaza. Offices and other meeting spaces have been added in a modern addition that adjoins the rear part of the original building.

Inside the doorway of the old Palacio Municipal is a marvelous mural painted by Luz Maria Rosas Guerra that packs a lot of history and local flavor into one wall. Subsections of the wall painting include famous figures from Mexican Independence, the Mexican Revolution (including local hero General and President Alvaro Obregon Salido), local business and government leaders,

The scenes also include a deer dancer and other traditional symbols of the local Mayo culture and images of local sights like a wedding party in front of the kiosk in Plaza Juarez and a well-known local vendor who can still be seen selling aguas frescas from his cart in the plaza..

If you continue through one of the doors on either side of the mural wall, you will walk across the checkered tiles of the inner courtyard, passing the circular staircase that leads to the building’s clock tower.

Walk up the steps to the second floor of the back part of the building, where the old structure meets the new building, and you will see another wonderful painting by Rosas Guerra that depicts colorful images of Mayo cultural symbols and people, and nature scenes.