Northern Mexico
Sinaloa
Culiacán

Culiacán

Culiacán is a city of slightly over 1 million people in . Lying in the center of the state, Culiacan is the center of the distinctive Sinaloense culture. It is best known, however, as the nexus of narcotics trafficking and narco culture in Mexico.
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  • Type: City with 808,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa
  • Also known as: “Cōlhuahcān Rosales” and “Cuilacan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Tomateros.

Stadium
Photo: Arcklp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a professional baseball stadium in Culiacán, , it is home to the Tomateros de Culiacán of the Mexican Pacific League. The stadium replaced Estadio General Ángel Flores as home of Tomateros.

Culiacán

Latitude
24.7979° or 24° 47′ 52″ north
Longitude
-107.3934° or 107° 23′ 36″ west
Population
808,000
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
IATA airport code
CUL
United Nations Location Code
MX CUL
Open location code
75PJQJX4+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273590692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4012176
Wiki­data ID
Q211760
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Culiacán” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كولياكان”
  • Armenian: “Կուլիական”
  • Armenian: “Կուլյական”
  • Asturian: “Culiacán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kulyakan”
  • Basque: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • Belarusian: “Куліякан”
  • Belarusian: “Кульякан”
  • Bengali: “কোলিকান”
  • Bulgarian: “Кулиакан”
  • Bulgarian: “Кулякан”
  • Catalan: “Culiacán”
  • Cebuano: “Culiacán”
  • Central Kurdish: “کولیاکان”
  • Chinese: “Culiacán”
  • Chinese: “库利亚坎”
  • Chinese: “庫利亞坎”
  • Chinese: “庫利阿坎”
  • Czech: “Culiacán”
  • Danish: “Culiacan”
  • Danish: “Culiacán”
  • Dutch: “Culiacan Rosales”
  • Dutch: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • Dutch: “Culiacan”
  • Dutch: “Culiacán”
  • Esperanto: “Culiacán”
  • Estonian: “Culiacán”
  • Finnish: “Culiacán”
  • French: “Bachigualato”
  • French: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • French: “Culiacan”
  • French: “Culiacán”
  • Galician: “Culiacán”
  • Georgian: “კულიაკანი”
  • German: “Culiacan”
  • German: “Culiacán”
  • Greek: “Κουλιακάν”
  • Gujarati: “કુલેઆકેન”
  • Hebrew: “קוליאקאן רוסלס”
  • Hebrew: “קוליאקאן”
  • Hindi: “कूलियाकान”
  • Hungarian: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • Iloko: “Culiacán”
  • Indonesian: “Culiacán”
  • Irish: “Culiacán”
  • Italian: “Culiacan”
  • Italian: “Culiacán”
  • Italian: “Culiacàn”
  • Japanese: “クーリャカン”
  • Japanese: “クリアカン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Culiacán”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಲಿಯಾಕಾನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Culiacán”
  • Korean: “쿨리아칸”
  • Ladino: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • Latin: “Culiacana”
  • Latin: “Culiacanum”
  • Latvian: “Kuljakana”
  • Lithuanian: “Culiacán”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuliakanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuljakanas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Culiacan”
  • Malagasy: “Culiacán”
  • Malay: “Culiacan”
  • Marathi: “कलिअकन”
  • Marathi: “कुल्याकान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Culiacán”
  • Mingrelian: “კულიაკანი”
  • Moksha: “Кульякан”
  • Northern Frisian: “Culiacán”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Culiacan Rosales”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Culiacan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Culiacán”
  • Norwegian: “Culiacán”
  • Ossetian: “Кульякан”
  • Persian: “کولیاچان”
  • Polish: “Culiacan”
  • Polish: “Culiacán”
  • Portuguese: “Culiacán”
  • Quechua: “Culiacán”
  • Russian: “Кулиакан”
  • Russian: “Кулиякан-Росалес”
  • Russian: “Кульякан-Росалес”
  • Russian: “Кульякан”
  • Scots: “Culiacan”
  • Scots: “Culiacán”
  • Serbian: “Culiacán”
  • Serbian: “Kulijakan”
  • Serbian: “Кулиакан”
  • Serbian: “Кулијакан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Culiacán, Sinaloa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Culiacán”
  • Silesian: “Culiacán”
  • Sinhala: “කුලියාකාන්”
  • Slovak: “Culiacán”
  • Slovenian: “Culiacán”
  • Spanish: “Culiacan Rosales”
  • Spanish: “Culiacan Sinaloa”
  • Spanish: “Culiacán Sinaloa”
  • Spanish: “Culiacan”
  • Spanish: “Culiacán”
  • Spanish: “Culiacano”
  • Spanish: “San Miguel de Culiacan”
  • Spanish: “San Miguel de Culiacán”
  • Swahili: “Culiacán, Sinaloa”
  • Swahili: “Culiacán”
  • Swedish: “Culiacan Rosales”
  • Swedish: “Culiacán Rosales”
  • Swedish: “Culiacan”
  • Swedish: “Culiacán”
  • Tagalog: “Culiacán”
  • Tamil: “குலியாகேன்”
  • Tatar: “Кульякан”
  • Telugu: “క్యూలియకాన్”
  • Thai: “Culiacán”
  • Thai: “กูเลียกัง”
  • Thai: “กูเลียกัน”
  • Thai: “กูเลียกาน”
  • Turkish: “Culiacán”
  • Ukrainian: “Кульякан”
  • Urdu: “کولیاکان”
  • Vietnamese: “Culiacán”
  • Volapük: “Culiacán”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Culiacán”
  • Welsh: “Culiacán”
  • Wu Chinese: “库利亚坎”
  • “Culiacán”
  • “Kolwahkan”
  • “Kolwahkan Rosales”
  • “Kolwahkan, Sinaloa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Culiacán”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 3.0.