Etchojoa Municipality

Etchojoa Municipality is one of the seventy-two municipalities in the Mexican state of Sonora. It is located in the southern part of the state, in the Mayo Valley area and on the coast of the Gulf of California. It municipal seat and most inhabited town is Etchojoa. Other important town include Bacobampo,, and. The municipality was founded on October 15, 1909.

According to the Population and Housing Census carried out in 2020 by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the municipality has a total of 61,309 inhabitants, ranking 11th among the most populated in the state, and has an area of 949.85 km². Its gross domestic product per capita is USD $5,701 and its human development index (HDI) is 0.7223. Like most municipalities in Sonora, the name was given because of its municipal head.