Information about Santa Ana

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Santa Ana is both a city and the municipal seat of the municipality (a political unit similar to a county in the U.S.) of Santa Ana, in the northern region of the state of Sonora, just south of Arizona.

The 2005 census of the city counted a population of approximately 10,600 inhabitants in the town of Santa Ana, with the municipality having a population of 14,638.

The city has one maquiladora, an NEI Systems cable assembly factory, and the main contributor to the municipality's economy is agriculture - cattle ranching and the raising of crops such as vegetables, wheat and forage grasses.