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Sonora

First-level unit, Mexico: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-MEX-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MEX / MXStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,267,560
people (GHSL 2025)
180,357 km²
area
2.5%
of Mexico
72
units inside

01Map

Inside Sonora

The 72 ADM2 units of Sonora.

FIG 1 · 72 units inside Sonora
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

3,267,560

2.5% of Mexico.

People · WorldPop 2025

3,044,652

-7% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

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180,357 km²

18 people per km².

Ikhowudi

MX-SON

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

233,447

people on land at or below 10 m, 7.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Sonora in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

65%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

72 units inside Sonora

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aconchi – 3,453 2,249 368.93 9 0.1% 0
Agua Prieta – 118,336 114,758 3,949.22 30 3.6% 0
Alamos – 35,582 23,316 6,433.65 6 1.1% 0
Altar – 11,544 9,455 4,461.38 3 0.4% 0
Arivechi – 1,553 985 726.94 2 0% 0
Arizpe – 3,876 2,244 3,074.03 1 0.1% 0
Atil – 698 534 300.5 2 0% 0
Bacadéhuachi – 1,537 640 1,068.02 1 0% 0
Bacanora – 1,007 613 1,130.95 1 0% 0
Bacerac – 1,779 847 1,346.25 1 0.1% 0
Bacoachi – 2,256 1,152 1,231.6 2 0.1% 0
Bácum – 27,570 25,610 1,586.9 17 0.8% 1,387
Banámichi – 2,250 1,835 809.18 3 0.1% 0
Baviácora – 4,596 2,430 843.02 5 0.1% 0
Bavispe – 2,007 821 1,723.08 1 0.1% 0
Benito Juárez – 28,190 18,786 370.42 76 0.9% 4,470
Benjamín Hill – 7,163 4,382 1,414.26 5 0.2% 0
Caborca – 112,405 91,987 10,684.09 11 3.4% 396
Cajeme – 478,167 446,860 4,884.03 98 14.6% 1,320
Cananea – 41,843 43,512 2,318.59 18 1.3% 0
Carbó – 7,310 3,918 2,585.07 3 0.2% 0
Cucurpe – 1,337 712 1,579.57 1 0% 0
Cumpas – 8,502 4,688 2,012.3 4 0.3% 0
Divisaderos – 1,118 603 386.18 3 0% 0
Empalme – 66,992 45,353 595.09 113 2% 30,925
Etchojoa – 77,722 52,537 950.43 82 2.4% 6,527
Fronteras – 11,897 9,264 2,619.2 5 0.4% 0
General Plutarco Elías Calles – 22,431 10,471 3,656.38 6 0.7% 0
Granados – 2 83 363.82 0 0% 0
Guaymas – 156,643 140,942 7,963.68 20 4.8% 48,816
Hermosillo – 886,161 1,017,401 16,978.79 52 27.1% 4,417
Huachinera – 1,760 873 1,198.74 1 0.1% 0
Huásabas – 2,977 1,393 822.66 4 0.1% 0
Huatabampo – 97,519 62,529 1,909.51 51 3% 78,679
Huépac – 1,341 549 421.5 3 0% 0
Imuris – 17,207 12,611 2,172.66 8 0.5% 0
La Colorada – 2,007 1,858 4,128.28 0 0.1% 0
Magdalena – 40,469 33,789 1,240.24 33 1.2% 0
Mazatán – 1,748 845 683.81 3 0.1% 0
Moctezuma – 6,115 5,208 1,880.27 3 0.2% 0
Naco – 9,648 5,423 1,237.59 8 0.3% 0
Nácori Chico – 2,826 966 2,835.7 1 0.1% 0
Nacozari de García – 16,432 14,638 1,737.59 9 0.5% 0
Navojoa – 186,503 170,430 2,814.18 66 5.7% 0
Nogales – 309,673 301,382 1,756.92 176 9.5% 0
Onavas – 595 355 535.24 1 0% 0
Opodepe – 3,762 1,750 2,225.59 2 0.1% 0
Oquitoa – 581 524 917.91 1 0% 0
Pitiquito – 12,496 7,907 9,832.58 1 0.4% 341
Puerto Peñasco – 82,557 61,836 6,198.74 13 2.5% 71,303
Quiriego – 4,676 2,616 3,786.29 1 0.1% 0
Rayón – 2,022 1,203 880.59 2 0.1% 0
Rosario – 6,278 3,838 3,525.34 2 0.2% 0
Sahuaripa – 7,580 3,947 5,010.31 2 0.2% 0
San Felipe de Jesús – 809 409 151.58 5 0% 0
San Ignacio Río Muerto – 17,755 12,043 1,385.6 13 0.5% 3,566
San Javier – 987 549 536.89 2 0% 0
San Luis Río Colorado – 235,457 208,646 8,881.08 27 7.2% 5,062
San Miguel de Horcasitas – 12,949 12,012 1,117.74 12 0.4% 0
San Pedro de la Cueva – 2,136 1,115 2,232.86 1 0.1% 0
Santa Ana – 20,769 15,738 1,478.45 14 0.6% 0
Santa Cruz – 2,721 1,617 1,003.29 3 0.1% 0
Sáric – 3,500 1,436 1,353.8 3 0.1% 0
Soyopa – 1,664 1,389 1,719.12 1 0.1% 0
Suaqui Grande – 1,401 960 915.48 2 0% 0
Tepache – 1,853 847 779.58 2 0.1% 0
Trincheras – 2,152 974 3,013.5 1 0.1% 0
Tubutama – 2,332 1,164 1,726.24 1 0.1% 0
Ures – 12,019 7,056 3,092.1 4 0.4% 0
Villa Hidalgo – 2,593 1,192 1,473.6 2 0.1% 0
Villa Pesqueira – 1,354 671 1,123.19 1 0% 0
Yécora – 7,633 3,400 2,671.13 3 0.2% 0
05Ukuchaphazeleka

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
603.8 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
3 H3 cells
Major roads
2,201 H3 cells
Railways
1,041.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
803.9 H3 cells
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Sonora publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Mexico.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MEX ADM1, source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MEX ADM2, source: World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.