TUMACACORI Historic Resource Study

¹The estimated population of Nogales, Arizona, in July 2002 was 21,280. Nogales, Arizona, Detailed Profile, http://www.city data.com/city/Nogales-Arizona.html. Official counts of Nogales, Sonora's population are notoriously low. Official Mexican census figures report a figure of 160,000 in 2004, but business leaders and government officials place the actual population between 250,000 and 300,000. Ruben A. Ruiz, María del Carmen Salazar and Luis Arvayo, "Growth: A mixed blessing. The booming population of Nogales, Sonora, creates stresses that the city's infrastructure is not equipped to handle," El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora), May 23, 2004.

²The magnificent baroque retablo at Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama in northwestern Sonora contains five oil paintings portraying the life of San José. The unfinished Franciscan. mission church at Tumacácori was dedicated to San José, leading some mission scholars to conjecture that the retablo may have originally graced Tumacácori's sanctuary (Officer et al 1996).

³"It is becoming impossible to escape the notion that nature is being murdered by 'anti-nature'—by abstraction, by signs and images, by discourse, as also by labour and its products," Lefebvre writes. "Along with God, nature is dying. 'Humanity is killing both of them'—and perhaps committing suicide into [sic] the bargain" (Lefebvre 1991:71).