Basúchil


Basúchil, water well in the Raramuri Language, is a town in the municipality of Guerrero, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. It was founded in 1649 as a presidio to protect the jesuit mission in the Tarahumara Papigochi region a few miles to the west, now Cd. Guerrero. Basúchil was initially named La Villa de Aguilar by his founder governor of the New Vizcaya, New Spain. In 1652 the town was destroyed and its inhabitants assassinated by an attack incited by the lider Tarahumara, years later it was resettled and renamed Basúchil. The Adolfo Lopez Mateos-Madera Highway passes on the east side.
Abraham González, later governor of Chihuahua, was born in Basúchil in 1864. Ángel González, the ranchera composer best known for his seminal narcocorrido, "Contrabando y Traición," lived most of his life in Basúchil.

Economy

In the twenty century Mennonites from the area of Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua introduced apple trees, becoming one of the main industries of the region also, corn, beans, and potatoes are cultivated throughout the region.