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56-574: The first known European to visit the area was Spanish explorer Melchor Díaz . He documented his travels in present-day northwestern Mohave County in 1540. He recounts meeting a large population of natives who referred to themselves as the Pipa Aha Macav, meaning "People by the River". From "Aha Macav" came the shortened name "Mojave" (also spelled "Mohave"). The tribe retains the traditional Spanish spelling "Mojave," but most English speakers use

112-528: 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

168-470: 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

224-449: 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 was an indigenous settlement called Huey Colhuacan that dated back to Tecpatl , which corresponds to

280-500: 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

336-546: 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 the Archangel . As of the 2020 INEGI census, Culiacán had an estimated population of 808,416, placing it as

392-676: 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

448-490: 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

504-514: 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

560-699: 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

616-568: 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

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672-657: 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 the Culiacán River 55 m above sea level. The genuine Aztec name of the Nahuatl language

728-558: 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

784-672: 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

840-543: 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

896-517: 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

952-759: The Mojave Indians. These volunteer soldiers also took up prospecting and established mining claims in the area; they did not want to leave, and many returned after being mustered out after the end of the Civil War. Fort Mohave was garrisoned again by regular United States Army troops until September 29, 1890, when the War Department transferred the land to the Office of Indian Affairs by order of President Benjamin Harrison . The buildings were used as

1008-435: 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

1064-558: 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

1120-482: 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

1176-459: 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

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1232-474: 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

1288-551: 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

1344-701: 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

1400-517: The course of his expeditions, however, were quite detailed and contributed much to the knowledge of the area and the times for both contemporary and later readers. His name for the Colorado River was the accepted name for almost two centuries . He reported details of Native American culture. He discovered and reported geothermal hot springs, probably the ones near Calexico . Culiac%C3%A1n Culiacán , officially Culiacán Rosales ,

1456-457: The expected time, Coronado embarked without him in February 1540. Díaz and Coronado met en route, and Díaz joined Coronado's group. Coronado then sent him on his second expedition to locate and investigate some villages reported in the area. He found the villages and reported they did not live up to the grand descriptions that had been given. Díaz was then sent ahead by Coronado to secure feed for

1512-471: The expedition's livestock. In July 1540, Díaz was sent to take the now-mistrusted and hated Fray Marcos back to Mexico and (say some reports) to take over leadership of the outpost at San Geronimo (or Hieronimo) in the valley of Corazones, now Ures , Sonora , and from there to attempt contact with the fleet of Hernando de Alarcón , which was to be the maritime arm of Coronado's expedition. In September 1540, he began his third expedition, traveling overland to

1568-580: The first European in the modern state of California to set foot and explore west of the Colorado River, reaching mudpots near Cerro Prieto , and in the Imperial Valley . During his Colorado River exploration Díaz was intending to find a route to the Southern Sea however low supplies combined with a freak accident on Díaz forced the party back to Corazon Valley in Sonora, New Spain. Díaz

1624-581: 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,

1680-520: The fort are controlled by the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction. Melchor D%C3%ADaz Melchor Díaz (1505 – January 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who was Governor of Culiacan. He is best known for leading a 25-man auxiliary party during the 1540 Coronado expedition . In December 1540 Díaz crossed the Colorado River which he named the Rio de Tizon (River of Embers ), making him

1736-517: The ground and before he could stop, Díaz's momentum impaled his groin on the back end of the lance. He lingered for twenty days but died en route in January 1541. The rest of the expedition arrived on 18 January 1541, in San Jeronimo de los Corazones, Sonora. Because of his untimely death, we do not have the kind of memoirs commonly written by other Spanish explorers. The reports that he made in

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1792-457: The head of the Gulf of California . Near the confluence of what is now the Colorado and Gila Rivers he learned from the natives that Alarcon had departed, but had left a cache of supplies and correspondence, which he located. The message basically stated that Francisco de Alarcón reached this place in the year '40 with three ships, having been sent in search of Francisco Vazquez Coronado by

1848-627: 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

1904-677: The modern English spelling "Mohave." Both are correct, and both are pronounced "Moh- hah -vee". Named Camp Colorado, the fort was established by the US to provide protection for emigrants to California through Northern Arizona on the Beale's Wagon Road and across the Mojave Desert on the Mojave Road . It was also used as a base of military operations against the Mohave people . The post

1960-497: 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

2016-605: 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

2072-472: 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

2128-455: 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

2184-538: The regular troops to garrison Los Angeles against an anticipated secessionist uprising. Later that year the regulars were sent east to serve with the Union in the Civil War. On May 19, 1863, the post was rebuilt and re-garrisoned by companies B and I of the 4th California Infantry ; they were assigned to protect the travelers along the Mohave and Prescott road. The Infantry successfully cultivated friendly relations with

2240-508: 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,

2296-674: 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

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2352-562: 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

2408-605: The site of a boarding school for Native American children, where for decades students were required to use English and give up native traditions in an effort to assimilate them to the mainstream culture. After closing the school during the Great Depression, the Office of Indian Affairs transferred the property to the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation . The buildings were not maintained; the ruins of

2464-490: 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

2520-662: 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

2576-404: 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

2632-418: 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

2688-421: The viceroy, D. Antonio de Mendoza; and after crossing the bar at the mouth of the river and waiting many days without obtaining any news, he was obliged to depart, because the ships were being eaten by worms. Díaz crossed the Colorado River, becoming the first European to do so, and named it Rio del Tizon ("River of Embers" or "Firebrand River" ) from the practice of the natives for keeping themselves warm. He

2744-407: 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

2800-406: 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 the name "Villa de San Miguel". Upon their arrival in

2856-432: 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

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2912-466: Was impressed with the physical strength of the natives of the area. He explored for four days west of the Colorado, perhaps as far as the Imperial Valley . While on this expedition (reports vary, some saying it ended further exploration, others saying it occurred while on the return) Díaz accidentally suffered a mortal wound. He threw a lance at a dog that was attacking their sheep. The lance stuck into

2968-403: Was part of the Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of California. Díaz was described by historical writer George Parker Winship as "a hard worker and skillful organizer and leader", who "inspired confidence in his companions and followers, and always maintained the best of order and of diligence among those who were under his charge". He

3024-493: Was placed in charge of the town of San Miguel de Culiacán by Nuño de Guzmán . When in 1539, Fray Marcos de Niza returned from Pimería Alta reporting he had seen the fabled cities of Cibola , Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza sent Díaz as the leader of a small expedition preliminarily to determine if reports by Fray Marcos were true. The information he gained was to benefit Coronado's planned and much larger expedition. He departed on November 17, 1539. When Díaz failed to return at

3080-525: Was renamed Fort Mohave on April 28, 1859 by its first garrison commander Captain Lewis A. Armistead . With 50 soldiers he defeated 200 Mohave in a battle in the summer of 1859, and ended hostilities with them. Two years later after the start of the American Civil War , Brigadier General Edwin V. Sumner ordered the post abandoned and the buildings burned down on May 28, 1861 in order to withdraw

3136-444: 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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