Ciudad Obregon

An Ideal Spot

By: Staff Report

        Agribusiness has always been Ciudad Obregon’s economic mainstay, but the region with a population of 425,000 is also plowing new ground in high-tech and other maquila fields. 

            Add available fresh uncontaminated water, electric power supply, and international airport served by five airlines, the Port of Guaymas, available prime land in the middle of everything, a modern freeway to U.S.  Interstate 10, and a young industrial workforce that is one of the best educated and most productive in the nation, and you’ve got fertile soil for success.

            “From its inception Ciudad Obregon has been an agricultural community”, says Marcel E. Alvarez, managing director of Trento Industrial Parks of Sonora.  “Consequently it has gone through periods of boom and bust depending on the harvest, the prices of wheat and cotton and the level of interest or…

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