Pónida

Pónida (from the Ópata language Ponida: "Los que están desarraigados") is a ranchería in the municipality of Arivechi located in the southeast of the Mexican state of Sonora in the Sierra Madre Occidental area. The ranchería is the fourth most inhabited town in the municipality, since according to data from the Population and Housing Census carried out in 2020 by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Pónida has a total of 36 inhabitants.

It was founded in 1748, by a group of Jova indigenous people, after having been dispossessed by the Apaches of the ancient town of Natora, moving by order of Viceroy Pedro de Garibay to the banks of the Sahuaripa River.

Category:1748 establishments in North America
Category:1740s establishments in Mexico
Category:Settlements in Sonora