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69-472: In the 2010 census, the city reported a population of 71,196, making it the fourth-largest community in the state, after Culiacán , Mazatlán , and Los Mochis . The municipality has a land area of 3,464.41 km (1,337.62 sq mi) and includes many other outlying communities, the largest of which are Juan José Ríos , Gabriel Leyva Solano , Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, El Burrion and Bamoa. The Mexican Highway Number 15 (Carretera Internacional Numero 15) passes through

138-454: A blade attached to a handle. It can be represented with the top half red, reminiscent of the color of blood , in representations of human sacrifice and the rest white, indicating the color of the flint blade. It was the sign of the eighteenth day, the twentieth day of the month of the Aztec calendar and the beginning of one of the twenty trecenas of the tonalpohualli . The Tecpatl knife

207-558: A child cot and put into it a flint knife with which they sacrificed the one they called the son of Cihuacoatl." In the version where the Centzonmimixcoa are born from the Tecpatl, the mother's name is Citlalinicue . In the version that is temporary marker Tecpatl birth, the mother is Iztac Chalchiuhtlicue , and in rites the mother of Tecpatl is Cihuacoatl. Three different invocations of the primordial mothers: skirt stars, She of

276-840: A local park named after the city's founder. The Algodoneros ("Cotton Growers") professional baseball team of the Mexican Pacific League are based in Guasave. The football team Diablos Azules de Guasave ("Blue Devils") is part of the soccer league Tercera División de México . The basketball team Los Frailes("The Friars") is a professional team who play in CIBAPAC . Situated on the Pacific Coastal Plains in Northwest Mexico and including within limits near than half million irrigated acres agriculture

345-528: A lot of Hellenic labor for the tillage of the land, and seeing that it was a profitable business, they communicated it to their family and friends. This attracted a greater number of people; today they have inherited a legacy to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren that make up the few thousand people who continue to live in the city. It is believed that the Greek community is the largest in Mexico and

414-470: A trade center for produce, meat, and fish. Among other industries, Culiacán represents 32 percent of the state economy. Coppel, Casa Ley , Homex and other companies of national importance are headquartered in Culiacán. Culiacán is divided into 27 sectors ( sectores ), which are groups of several quarters ( colonias ): The Terminal de Autobuses de Culiacán or Central de Autobuses Culiacán Millenium

483-500: Is a bus terminal located west of the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. The station is built in front of the Country Club. This plant replaced the old plant that was to the south, in front of Blvd. Gabriel Leyva Solano. At present , Culiacán has just over 68 urban transport routes, which serve about one million users. The Culiacán urban transport is operated by RedPlus. The city has a train station, operated by Ferromex , and it

552-676: Is borne from the Sierra Madre Occidental within the State of Durango, enters Sinaloa through Cosalá and empties into the Gulf of California. Culiacán has a hot semi-arid climate ( Köppen : BSh ), despite receiving an annual rainfall over 600 mm (24 in), due to its hot temperatures and high evaporation. Summers are very hot and humid, shade temperatures can reach 45 °C (113 °F) and high humidity can produce heat indices of 50 to 55 °C (122 to 131 °F), with

621-490: Is covered with a carmine color. In the center is a hieroglyph representing a hill with a human head inclined forward. This glyph alludes to Coltzin , "the crooked god", an authentic figure of Nahuatl mythology , who gave its name to the Nahuatlaca-Colhua tribe and, in turn, to the town of its residence, Colhuacán or Teocolhuacán. Across the face of the shield, there are symbols of water referring to rivers. In

690-514: Is elected a universal, direct and secret vote for a period of three years that are not renewable for the immediate period but if not continuously and that begins to exercise its position on the day 1 January of the year following your election; The city council is integrated by the Municipal President into a Procurator Trustee and the body of councilors made up of 18 representatives, once they are elected by relative majority and seven by

759-699: Is located in the central region of the State of Sinaloa , forming part of the Northwest of Mexico. The coordinates that correspond to it are 24 ° 48'15 "N (latitude) by 107 ° 25'52" W (West), with an altitude of 54 meters above sea level. The city is located 1,240 kilometres (770 mi) from Mexico City . From Culiacán to Tepic is only 502 km; to Durango , 536 km; to Hermosillo , 688 km; to Guadalajara , 708 km; to Monterrey , 1,118 km; to Chihuahua , 1,159 km; to Tijuana , 1,552 km; and to Matamoros , 1,434 km. The relief of

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828-715: Is the main economical activity by far. Aquaculture is other important industry. The agro business related activities are also important. The Guasave archaeological site, belonging to Capacha culture, was excavated by archaeologist Gordon Ekholm in the 1940s. It became known as the greatest formal cemetery mound in Northwest Mexico that has been excavated. He found several pottery types including red wares, red-on-buff, finely incised wares and several types of highly detailed polychrome pottery. Also, alabaster vases and copper implements were found. Cotton textiles were also used by these peoples. Capacha culture goes back to 2000–1500 BC. The Jesuit mission of San Pedro y Pablo de Guasave

897-568: Is used only to transport freight. It is connected to south with Mazatlán and north with Guaymas. Culiacán uses the Central Internacional de Autobuses "Millennium" ("Millennium" International Buses Station) to travel across all Mexico (north, central, and south) and to the United States (Arizona and California). This replaced the old bus terminal in the southern city. Though several high-speed roads have been built, most of

966-560: The Culiacán River 55 m above sea level. The genuine Aztec name of the Nahuatl language is Colhuacan or Culhuacan , which is from colhua or culhua and can , which is a place, and its meaning varies according to different historians: The most respected theory is "place of the colhuas", that is "inhabited by the colhua tribe", and the most frequent meaning is "place of worshiping the god Coltzin". In ancient times, there

1035-552: The Five Suns , the name of the moon god is Nahui be Tecpatl (Four-Flint knife). In other more elaborate representations in addition to the basic form, the tecpatl can appear anthropomorphized , with two to seven teeth and an eye in the central region, which has a pupil center and an eyebrow on top; this eye is similar to that shown in the image of mizquitli (death). Other times it was built into an elaborate handle made of wood or stone inlaid with turquoise and shell. Other times,

1104-558: The Restored Republic , Governor Eustaquio Buelna confronted the merchants of the port. He returned to Culiacán and the Local Congress gave it the status of capital of the state. In 1878, Culiacán had three City Halls, whose headwaters were Culiacán, Quilá and Badiraguato . It remained that way until 1880, when Badiraguato returned to being a district with the limits that previously corresponded to it. The year 1912

1173-672: The State of Durango , entering Sinaloa through Badiraguato ; its waters are controlled by the Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos dam. The Tamazula River arises in the Sierra Madre Occidental near the Topia Valley; its waters are controlled by the Sanalona dam. The Humaya and Tamazula Rivers unite in front of the city of Culiacán to form the Culiacán River , which empties into the Gulf of California . The San Lorenzo

1242-517: The 2010 Population and Housing Census carried out by the (INEGI), resulting in a population density of 10,396.5 inhabitants / km2. concentrating 78.7% of the total urban population of the Municipality. The ethnic groups most represented in the Municipality are the Mixtec and Nahuatl , the total population of indigenous language speakers (HLI population) is 13,081 people. On the other hand, in

1311-613: The Archangel . As of the 2020 INEGI census, Culiacán had an estimated population of 808,416, placing it as the 21st most populous city in Mexico , while its metropolitan area had a population of 1,003,530, being the 17th most populous metropolitan area in Mexico . The city is in a valley on the slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental , at the confluence of the Tamazula and Humaya Rivers, where both join to form

1380-545: The Codex Borgia, Mictlantecuhtli (lord of the underworld) appears as an active sacrificer armed with an ax or a técpal, ready to draw the hearts of his victims, his nose and tongue accuse the form of sharp knives. The Tecpatl was in the middle of Aztec mythology , it is in the center of the Sun Stone , and it was instrumental in the ritual to bring out the heart of the sacrificial victim, which allowed light to reach

1449-543: The Jade Skirt) begat the fourhundreth mixcohua. Then they went into a cave; and upon entering, their mother gave birth to five more Mimixcoa". In the version of the Legend of the Five Suns , Tecpatl becomes temporal marker of the birth of the Centzonmimixcoa, and the name of the mother goddess switches to Iztac Chalchiuhtlicue (She of the Jade Skirt). According to Bernardino de Sahagún and Diego Durán they present

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1518-597: The Jade Skirt, the snake woman who is at once a warrior deity, Tecpatl mother of the fourhundreth Centonmimixcoa born, the first gods on earth, in Chicomoztoc , the womb of the peoples. In Aztec mythology , the tecpatl was sometimes drawn as a simple flint blade, sharpened with some notches on the edge, in the Codex Borgia it appears red. Tecpatl was associated with Northern cardinal point ( Mictlan ).,

1587-435: The Municipality concentrates 31% of the population in the State of Sinaloa , with 422,507 men and 436,131 women, with a ratio of 96.9 men for every 100 women. The city of Culiacán Rosales occupies only a part of the municipality of Culiacán and in 2010 had an urban area of 65 km2, being the largest in the state of Sinaloa and has a population of 675,773 inhabitants (of which 329,608 are men and 346,165 are women), according to

1656-638: The Seven Caves are the Centzonmimixcoa (four hundred cloud snakes, or “countless cloud snakes” - in Nāhuatl, 400 is used to express being countless). This is confirmed by another version of the myth where the Flint serves as a temporary event marker, appearing as a calendar date, as a carrier of the year Centzonmimixcoa are born: "In year 1 Tecpatl Centzonmimixcoa were born, Iztac Chalchiuhtlicue (She of

1725-648: The Sun god, or the Earth Lord( Tlaltecuhtli ) . Among these five is Mixcoatl , who after destroying the fourhundreth Mimixcoa is given a white flint that came gushing out of Itzpapalotl 's body. It was burned (dedicated to Itzpapalotl ) and broken several times. From there first came the azure flint; the second time flowed white flint. They took the white and wrapped it in a blanket. The third time sprouted yellow flint; neither took only saw. The fourth time flowed red flint; neither took . The fifth time sprang

1794-558: The area peripheral to the south of the city, where the humble settlements of new inhabitants who arrive with the hope of obtaining a better quality of life proliferate. Of the 176,799 occupied dwellings, 173,704 have electricity; 171,614 have piped water; 171,489 have drainage and 169,550 have the 3 services simultaneously. The city has many buildings, among the most noteworthy are, Torre Tres Ríos, Torre Santa María, Torre Tres Afluencias, Mileto 4 Ríos, Estela Corporate Center, Ceiba, BioInnova Building, Tower 120 and Dafi, all located in one of

1863-482: The best organized, the president of said community is in charge of Basilio Karamanos Pérez(Deceased). The total number of dwellings that exist in the city are 221,144 of which only 176,799 dwellings are occupied with an average of 3.81 inhabitants per inhabited dwelling. In general, cement roofs, walls and floors are used for the construction of the house, although homes or buildings do not cease to exist, most of them have sheet roofs and earth floors, this occurs mainly in

1932-432: The black flint; neither took. Mixcoatl worshiped the gods by offering the white flint, which he wrapped in another blanket; and carried it on his back and went to fight in the place named Comallan, carrying it as an offering to his god, Itzpapalotl. In Aztec codices , the myth goes that Tezcatlipoca changed his name to Mixcoatl in the second year after the flood and makes fire from two pieces of flint. Which would explain

2001-459: The cartel leaders, widespread gunfights broke out across the city, leading to multiple deaths, in what has been called the " Battle of Culiacán ". One of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán 's relatives, Ovidio Guzmán , was arrested by police, but were forced to release him. The coat of arms of the municipality and the city of Culiacán in Sinaloa, Mexico, has various elements that represent the history of

2070-474: The central part and towards the left side, a cross is followed by a path on which footprints can be observed that end in a small construction. These motifs symbolize the missionaries of San Miguel de Culiacán left for the North, and they are invoked as an obligatory tribute to the goodness and heroism of the missionaries. On the carmine border, the word "Culiacán" can be read in its upper part, and in its lower part

2139-531: The city north to south direction. The city is served by Campo Cuatro Milpas Airport , offering air services within the region. San Ignacio Bay and Navachiste Bay are popular for watersports. Guasave also features the viceroyalty towns as Tamazula, with its famous Franciscan era church. Nearby lie the ruins of Pueblo Viejo and Nío, which date from the time of the Jesuits from the 17th century until their expulsion in 1767. Visitors can also go to Parque Villafañe,

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2208-551: The city of 2,285 square kilometres (882 sq mi) of valley agriculture. Sometime later, the State Congress approved the extension of the name of the capital city, giving it its current official name of Culiacán de Rosales. "Rosales" honors the great Mexican military man Antonio Rosales , who fought in the second French Intervention and the Reform War , along with serving as the governor of Sinaloa. Beginning in

2277-701: The city of Culiacán designated capital of the state of Sinaloa. In 1861, during the conservative government of the French Intervention , prefectures were installed and the Municipalities Law was decreed that divided the Districts into City Councils. The Badiraguato District was suppressed and became part of the Culiacán District as a municipality. From 1859 to 1873, the capital of Sinaloa was moved from Culiacán to Mazatlán. In

2346-455: The city's streets are rather narrow and traffic jams are common at rush hours. Now, 300,000 cars are in Culiacán, making the per capita number of cars one of the highest in the country considering the 745,000 inhabitants. Tecpatl In the Aztec culture, a tecpatl was a flint or obsidian knife with a lanceolate figure and double-edged blade, with elongated ends. Both ends could be rounded or pointed, but other designs were made with

2415-439: The dark place of eternal stillness and rest of the dead. The ancient Anahuac , considered the Tecpatl as a symbol of Xiuhtecuhtli tletl (fire protector of the grass or fire protector of the year), being the oldest method to produce sparks(and fire) by colliding two flints. It also relates to Ehecatl , since in the codices it's represented by high winds, meaning that the air cuts like razor, so it represented xopantla ( spring ),

2484-521: The eyes, and sacrificial knives to simulate nose and tongue. In the Codex Borbonicus , Xolotl 's tongue is made out of flint and he is carrying another knife with his right hand. Tlaltecuhtli (Lord of the Earth), is found in various sculptures and manuscripts, with tecpatl representing the tongue of the deity. In the Sun Stone , the tongue of the central face of Tonatiuh is a tecpatl. In

2553-452: The figure of a rabbit, a tecpatl or sometimes a small snail. Sometimes the Moon is represented in the same way as the Sun, with rays, but with different colors and with a snail or tecpatl in the center. In the Codex Borgia , the flint knife is imposed inside the lunar glyph replacing the rabbit. This substitution, undoubtedly refers to the relationship between the Moon and death. The Legend of

2622-581: The first settlements that were populating the perimeter around the original urban area by people from different social strata to have a largely wide space close to the Center; Among the best known and with the largest number of population we find: Infonavit Humaya, Tierra Blanca, 6 January, Stase, Juntas de Humaya, Almada, Miguel Alemán, Centro Sinaloa, Morelos, Palmito, El Barrio, Aurora, etc. The subdivisions for their part are places divided by different construction companies, in which there are in certain sections,

2691-470: The flint was represented deified bristling with teeth or fangs and jaws with one eye. A knife found in the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan , shows a profile of a face that presumably represents the carrier of the tecpatl year(a minor deity). Its teeth and eyes were accented with inlaid white flint and obsidian, a volcanic rock. As it is a sacred sacrificial knife it is symbolically related to Mictlan ,

2760-504: The gods were Tonatiuh and Mictlantecuhtli . On day Ce Tecpatl(One Flint), there was a festival dedicated to Huitzilopochtli , patron god of Tenochtitlan . Tecpatl Year 1 (1168): the Aztec people left their place of origin, Aztlán , to undertake a long and difficult journey through the arid northern lands, part of what is now known as Mexico City . The tecpatl or sacrificial knife, was an important element in Aztec rituals. The tecpatl

2829-461: The homology between this myth and ritual. "Among the ornaments worn by the women representing Cihuacoatl at parties, they also brought a crib on their back, so to bring your child in it, and stood in the tianguis among the other women, and disappearing left the crib there . When the other women looked at what was in it, it was a flint and iron were sandeel , with which they killed those whom they sacrificed." Meanwhile, Duran tells his priests" sought

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2898-457: The importance of human sacrifices to feed the gods, especially the sun god, who illuminates the earth and sustains life. The flint knife, is also represented in the following sections of the Sun Stone : In the accounts written by Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta on the origin of Tecpatl: The Centzonmimixcoa were the first man-gods, "they shall be as gods who created mankind and subsequently be slaughtered at Teotihuacan , some by jumping into fire,

2967-627: The late 1950s, Culiacán became the birthplace of an incipient underground economy based on illicit drugs exported to the United States. The completion of the Pan-American Highway and the regional airport in the 1960s accelerated the expansion of workable distribution infrastructure for the enterprising few families that would later come to dominate the international drug cartels along Mexico's Pacific Northwest. The Sinaloa Cartel made Culiacán its primary base. On 17 October 2019, after an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to arrest one of

3036-411: The lower part of the universe where the emaciated beings live . Mictlan was associated with the color black and the tecpatl (sacrificial knife). This knife is associated with the black god Tezcatlipoca , who embodies an obsidian knife representing the black wind. As sacrificial knife, it is also associated with the North (the direction of death) and the flayed god Xipe Totec . The knife inserted into

3105-552: The most important districts of the city, the Tres Ríos Urban Development . The city is divided into different areas mainly: The Historical Center of Culiacán is the original area of the city, in which most of the buildings of the Spanish colonization between the 16th and 19th centuries are found, it comprises a territorial extension of approximately 247,123 ha (2,471 km ). From the '70s onwards, there

3174-605: The municipality is well defined by a mountainous part and the coastal plain. The mountainous part corresponds to the physiographic region of the highlands, part of the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range with elevations of 300 to 2,100 meters above sea level. The coastal plain lies to the West and is crossed by four regional rivers: the Humaya , Tamazula , Culiacán and San Lorenzo . The Humaya has its origin in

3243-472: The municipality yesterday and today. Rolando Arjona Amábilis was the artist behind the official coat of arms of the Municipality of Culiacán, which was made official through municipal decree number 13 May 26, 1960 and published in number 90 of the Official Newspaper of the State of Sinaloa on 30 July 1960. Its shape is square with rounded corners, ending in a point. The entire face of the shield

3312-597: The name "Villa de San Miguel". Upon their arrival in the 16th century, the Spanish found the existence of farmhouses organized in indigenous nations by the tribe of the Tahues , which brought together a group of people of the same origin and language who had a common tradition. Other indigenous peoples that inhabited the original territory of Culiacán were the Tebacas , Pacaxes , Sabaibo and Achires . After their war of conquest, in 1531, de Cebreros and de Guzmán organized

3381-473: The nasal cavity symbolizes "cut the air", which is a vital element in symbolizing death. The tongue in the form of an obsidian knife (tecpatl) exposed to outside, indicates the need to be fed with the magical substance that was human blood flowing from the heart. In excavations of the Templo Mayor , 33 skull-masks representing Mictlantecuhtli (god of death) were found; made out of the rostral portion of human skulls, adorned with shell and pyrite to represent

3450-489: The notions of origin and human sacrifice . The Tecpatl was born in the height of heaven shaped as a knife, and was thrown down by his brother, and it was destined to descend from heaven to Earth. It falls in Chicomoztoc (The Place of the Seven Caves) primary array of peoples, fragmenting into 1600 pieces, and from those fragments a thousand and six hundred gods emerge, the first gods on Earth. These gods emerging from

3519-593: The others by opening their chest with a flint knife, this in order that the new Sun has movement and life". This story is related to two main iconographic elements from Sunstone : one is the Flint Knife (Tecpatl), and the other is the glyph: Four Movement ( Nahui Ollin ) In the version of the Legend of the Five Suns , as well as the fourhundreth, five more Centzonmimixcoa are born. The Sun god ( Tonatiuh ) sends these five Centzonmimixcoa to destroy their older siblings, but they do not offer any of their kill to

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3588-455: The principle of proportional representation. For its internal regime, the municipality is subdivided into 17 receiverships, which in turn are divided into police stations, the 17 receiverships of the municipality are: El Salado, Higueras de Abuya, Baila, Aguaruto, Emiliano Zapata, Adolfo López Mateos (El Tamarindo), Jesús María, Las Tapias, Quilá, Sanalona, San Lorenzo, Tacuichamona, Tepuche, Imala, Costa Rica, Culiacáncito and Eldorado. Culiacán

3657-411: The reason why, in the Sun Stone , the Tecpatl is carrying the glyph of Tezcatlipoca . The Tecpatl, linked to the origin of the fire, is also identified as a symbol of the Sun and stars. In the codices, the Moon is usually shown on a framework of dark night, as a kind of vessel cross-cut and usually filled with a liquid form. The vessel appears to be formed by a crooked bone, and inside is almost always

3726-508: The risk of heavy rainfall from decaying tropical cyclones also present. Winters are much milder with less humidity and an average high of 27 °C, with warm nights. The Municipality of Culiacán has a total population of 858,638 inhabitants, this according to the 2010 Population and Housing Census carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). It has a population density of 166.8 inhabitants / km2,

3795-674: The same style of housing, housing people of lower middle class, middle and upper middle class, among the best known are: La Conquista, Villas del Rio, Valle Alto, Los Pinos, Villa Verde and Villa Fontana. Residentials are considered to be areas strategically built for people with high purchasing power, with spacious houses, large green areas and in most cases, they are delimited as private, and we find: Tres Ríos , Chapultepec, Los Álamos, Guadalupe, Lomas de Guadalupe, Colinas de San Miguel, Montebello, La Campiña, Las Quintas, Isla Musalá and La Primavera. Independent of these areas, we find one that stands out for its extension and its level of influence at

3864-562: The same. On 6 October 1821, independence was sworn in Culiacán. Culiacán was granted the category of city, on 21 July 1823, when the provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa separated by decree from Congress. In 1824, by the Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation , Sinaloa and Sonora met again, forming the state of the West. On 13 October 1830, the provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa were definitively separated by decree, with

3933-490: The state level: the Tres Ríos Urban Development, which was started in 1990 with the aim of creating a better commercial, residential and entertainment area. for the city, in addition to taking advantage of the lands adjacent to the Culiacán, Humaya and Tamazula rivers, in addition to embellishing the banks with vegetation and a new boardwalk. Culiacán's economy is mainly agricultural and commerce, being

4002-662: The territories acquired into three provinces. One of them was Culiacán, which was delimited to the South by the Elota River and to the North by the Mocorito River, depending on the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia . Organized in this way, the territory lasted until 1786, the year in which the administration system was implemented, with Sonora and Sinaloa forming the province of Arizpe and the older province of Culiacán remaining

4071-410: The time of high winds. According to Diego Durán , the former Anahuac considered the tecpatl as the worst sign of the zodiac, because the men and women born under this sign were happy but prone to infertility. The image of the tecpatl was a lunar symbol and therefore ruled agricultural events. Their patron gods were: Chalchiuhtotolin and Tezcatlipoca . In the trecena of Ce Tecpatl(One Flint),

4140-404: The total population; Among the main nationalities we find Americans, Canadians, Spanish, Italians, Greeks, Argentines, Cubans, Colombians, Brazilians, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Ukrainians, Venezuelans, Dominicans, Germans, among others. The presence of people of Greek origin that occurred in the 1940s and 1950s coincided with the incipient but flourishing emergence of agriculture. This attracted

4209-418: The urban area of Culiacán, there are only 3,536 indigenous people, representing a very low percentage with respect to the total; Furthermore, these indigenous groups are not native to the municipality or the entity, since they were exterminated, displaced or assimilated by the mestizo population. The city ranks 20th in number of foreign population, which amounts to 6,693 inhabitants, which represent almost 1% of

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4278-407: The word "Colhuacán", which corresponds to the true name of the place in the Nahuatl language . In the upper part of the shield, there is a hill with a germinating seed and the figure of a golden sun, alluding both to the tropical climate of this region and to the fundamentally agricultural effort of its inhabitants. The government of the municipality of Culiacán corresponds to its City Council, this

4347-432: Was a process of depopulation of the area due to the high costs of rents, the bustle of the main streets and avenues and the priority of having more commercial spaces, but in recent years there has been a process of repopulation of the same with the construction of apartments in the periphery of the Center and a project of urban reorganization in which it is intended to have a higher population density. Las Colonias, which are

4416-454: Was an indigenous settlement called Huey Colhuacan that dated back to Tecpatl , which corresponds to the year 628 CE. The Aztecs built it during their pilgrimage. Its exact location is unknown, but it is assumed that it was close to the current town of Culiacáncito . The ancient settlers were called Culichis. The city that we know today as Culiacán was co-founded in 1531 by conquistadors Lázaro de Cebreros and Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán under

4485-415: Was founded in 1590. Culiac%C3%A1n Culiacán , officially Culiacán Rosales , is a city in northwestern Mexico , the capital and largest city of both Culiacán Municipality and the state of Sinaloa . The city was founded on 29 September 1531 by the Spanish conquerors Lázaro de Cebreros and Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán under the name "Villa de San Miguel", referring to its patron saint, Michael

4554-490: Was traditionally used for human sacrifice by the Aztecs, but it also was the short-range weapon of the jaguar warriors . Although it may have seen only limited use on the battlefield, its sharp edges would have made it an effective sidearm. Tecpatl, is one of the most complex iconographic symbols of Aztec mythology . This knife expresses multiple meanings that carry a complex view of the world which are closely associated with

4623-436: Was used as the cutting edge of the weapon. In the few técpame that have survived, there are some representations of deities in their handles. A famous pre-Columbian example is the carved image of a figure using circular plugs in its ears and a big bow ornament made out of feathers, which associates this figure with Tonatiuh , the sun god. Tonatiuh's arms appears to be holding the knife's blade. This particular knife, emphasizes

4692-406: Was used by Aztec priests to open the chest of the victims of human sacrifice to extract the heart that would feed the gods, in the hope that the offerings would bring blessings to mankind. The most widespread sacrificial procedure among Aztecs, was removal of the heart. There were different types of knives, some of them allude to human sacrifice, being carved as a skull silhouette, where the nose

4761-444: Was when municipalities were established by law as a new form of internal government, but it was not until 1915 that this law came into force and political directories were suppressed, causing the districts to become free municipalities. Culiacán was established as a municipality by decree on 8 April 1915. Within its original limits was the current Municipality of Navolato , which was segregated from Culiacán on 27 August 1982, depriving

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