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Hermosillo

American  
[er-maw-see-yaw] / ˌɛr mɔˈsi jɔ /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Sonora, in NW Mexico.


Hermosillo British  
/ ɛrmoˈsiʎo /

noun

  1. a city in NW Mexico, capital of Sonora state, on the Sonora River: university (1938); winter resort and commercial centre for an agricultural and mining region. Pop: 668 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Ford Motor’s assembly plant in Hermosillo, Mexico churns out over 300,000 pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles a year, employing 4,300 workers and a security guard known as “El Charro.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Teran, a 25-year Ford veteran, said staff at Hermosillo had been researching other tactics for scaring off pigeons, especially a cohort of birds that had built nests in the plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

He was mostly raised in an orphanage in Hermosillo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

Sánchez and the officers protecting him had left Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora, before sunrise on June 23 and by 7 a.m. had arrived in Altar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

He’s from down Hermosillo way, and not like these Piman children of nature.

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Robert Wesley Amick

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