Culiacán Municipality

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Culiacán is a municipality in the state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. It is the most populous municipality in Sinaloa.[2]

The municipal seat is the state capital, the city of Culiacán.

Political subdivision

The municipality of Culiacán is subdivided into 17 sindicaturas:

  • 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
  • Culiacancito
  • Las Flechas

Eldorado was formerly the eighteenth sindicatura of Culiacán, but it became an independent municipality in 2021.[3][4]

See also

  • Wikimedia Commons logo Media related to Culiacán Municipality at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ↑"¿Cuántos habitantes tiene... - Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020".
  2. ↑Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipalhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070128142000/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/sinaloa/. Archived from the original on January 28, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2010.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑"DECRETO NÚMERO: 597"(PDF). El Estado de Sinaloa (in Spanish). Congress of Sinaloa. 22 March 2021. pp. 3–9. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  4. ↑"Aprueba Congreso del Estado creación del municipio de Eldorado" (in Spanish). Congress of Sinaloa. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2025.