Sinaloa
Sinaloa is a state in Northern Mexico. It is the most important agricultural state in the Federation, which has earned it the nickname "the granary of Mexico".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Culiacán and Mazatlan.
Culiacán
Culiacán is a city of slightly over 1 million people in Sinaloa. 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.
Mazatlan
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Mazatlán is a city in Sinaloa state, Mexico, known for its fine beaches. It is a popular vacation and retirement destination for Canadians and Americans.
Los Mochis
Los Mochis is an agricultural city in Sinaloa, Mexico. It is best known as the western terminus for the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railway, the magnificent train ride through the rugged Copper Canyon.
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El Fuerte
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El Fuerte is a colonial city of 13,000 people in Sinaloa. El Fuerte, meaning "The Fort", was named a Pueblo Mágico in 2010, for it has many attractions and a special, pretty-small-town aura.
El Rosario
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El Rosario is a coastal town on the Sea of Cortez in southern Sinaloa, Mexico. The town's main church is famous for having a beautifully ostentatious gold altar that stuns visitors, even in a country where astounding churches are common.
Mocorito
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Mocorito is a small colonial-era town in the western state of Sinaloa, Mexico. It is known for its literary and artistic traditions with a number of noted poets, muralists, and song-writers counting Mocorito as their home.
Cosalá
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Cosalá is a small town in the northern state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Surrounded by mountainous terrain, the area boasts two man-made lakes, a spectacular cavern system, and an impressive waterfall.
Guasave
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Guasave is a mid-size city of 320,000 in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It offers limited sightseeing spots but the nearby bays and beaches of the upper Gulf of California provide abundant spots for aquatic sports and nature watching.
San Ignacio
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San Ignacio or San Ignacio de Piaxtla is a city and seat of the surrounding San Ignacio Municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It stands at. The municipality reported 4,543 inhabitants in the 2010 census.
Sinaloa
- Type: State with 3,030,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Also known as: “Estado de Sinaloa” and “Sin.”
- Neighbors: Chihuahua
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Northern Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude of center
24.8213° or 24° 49′ 17″ northLongitude of center
-107.4463° or 107° 26′ 47″ westPopulation
3,030,000Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)Abbreviation
“SIN”OpenStreetMap ID
node 305626603OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3983035Wikidata ID
Q80252
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sinaloa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sinaloa”
- Arabic: “سينالوا”
- Arabic: “ولاية سينالوا”
- Arabic: “ولايه سينالوا”
- Aragonese: “Sinaloa”
- Armenian: “Սինալոա”
- Asturian: “Sinaloa”
- Aymara: “Sinaloa Istadu”
- Azerbaijani: “Sinaloa”
- Balinese: “Sinaloa”
- Basque: “Sinaloa”
- Belarusian: “Саналёа”
- Belarusian: “Саналоа”
- Belarusian: “Сіналоа”
- Belarusian: “Сыналёа”
- Belarusian: “Штат Сіналоа”
- Bengali: “সিনালোয়া”
- Breton: “Sinaloa”
- Bulgarian: “Синалоа”
- Catalan: “Cinaloa”
- Catalan: “Estat de Sinaloa”
- Catalan: “Sinaloa”
- Cebuano: “Estado de Sinaloa”
- Chechen: “Синалоа (штат)”
- Chechen: “Синалоа”
- Cheyenne: “Sinaloa”
- Chinese: “Sinaloa Chiu”
- Chinese: “西納洛亞州”
- Chinese: “錫那羅亞”
- Chinese: “錫那羅亞州”
- Chinese: “锡那罗亚州”
- Cornish: “Sinaloa”
- Croatian: “Sinaloa”
- Czech: “Sinaloa”
- Danish: “Sinaloa”
- Dutch: “Sinaloa”
- Esperanto: “Sinaloa”
- Esperanto: “Sinaloo”
- Estonian: “Sinaloa osariik”
- Estonian: “Sinaloa”
- Finnish: “Sinaloa”
- French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa”
- French: “État de Sinaloa”
- French: “MX-SIN”
- French: “Sinaloa”
- Galician: “Sinaloa”
- Georgian: “სინალოა”
- Georgian: “სინალოის შტატი”
- German: “MX-SIN”
- German: “Sinaloa”
- Greek: “Σιναλόα”
- Gujarati: “સિનાલોઆ”
- Hausa: “Sinaloa”
- Hebrew: “סינלואה”
- Hindi: “सिनालोआ”
- Hungarian: “Sinaloa”
- Icelandic: “Sinaloa”
- Ido: “Sinaloa”
- Iloko: “Sinaloa”
- Indonesian: “Sinaloa”
- Interlingua: “Sinaloa”
- Irish: “Sinaloa”
- Italian: “Sinaloa”
- Japanese: “シナロア州”
- Javanese: “Sinaloa”
- Kannada: “ಸಿನಾಲೋವಾ”
- Korean: “시날로아”
- Korean: “시날로아주”
- Ladino: “Sinaloa”
- Latin: “Sinaloa”
- Latvian: “Sinaloa”
- Lithuanian: “Sinaloa valstija”
- Lithuanian: “Sinaloa”
- Low German: “Sinaloa”
- Lower Sorbian: “Sinaloa”
- Luxembourgish: “Sinaloa”
- Malagasy: “Sinaloa”
- Malay: “Sinaloa”
- Marathi: “सिनालोआ”
- Mazanderani: “سینالوآ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sinaloa Chiu”
- Nepali: “सिनालोआ”
- Northern Frisian: “Sinaloa (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Sinaloa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinaloa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinaloa”
- Norwegian: “Sinaloa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sinaloa”
- Ossetian: “Синалоæ”
- Pampanga: “Sinaloa”
- Pennsylvania German: “Sinaloa”
- Persian: “سینالوآ”
- Persian: “سینالوا”
- Piemontese: “Sinaloa”
- Polish: “Sinaloa”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Sinaloa”
- Portuguese: “Sinaloa”
- Quechua: “Sinaloa suyu”
- Romanian: “Sinaloa”
- Romansh: “Sinaloa”
- Russian: “Синалоа”
- Russian: “Синалоэ”
- Sardinian: “Sinaloa”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sinaloa”
- Scots: “Sinaloa”
- Serbian: “Estado de Sinaloa”
- Serbian: “Држава Синалоа”
- Serbian: “Синалоа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sinaloa”
- Sinhala: “සිනලොආ”
- Sinhala: “සිනාලෝවා ප්රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
- Slovak: “Sinaloa”
- Slovenian: “Estado de Sinaloa”
- Slovenian: “MX-SIN”
- Slovenian: “Sinaloa”
- Spanish: “Estado de Sinaloa”
- Spanish: “Sinaloa”
- Spanish: “Sinaloense”
- Swahili: “Sinaloa”
- Swedish: “Sinaloa”
- Tagalog: “Sinaloa”
- Tajik: “Иёлати Синалоа”
- Tamil: “சினலோங்”
- Tatar: “Синалоа”
- Telugu: “సినాలోవా”
- Thai: “ซีนาโลอา”
- Thai: “รัฐซินาโลอา”
- Thai: “รัฐซีนาโลอา”
- Tumbuka: “Sinaloa”
- Turkish: “Sinaloa”
- Ukrainian: “Сіналоа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sinaloa”
- Urdu: “سینالوا”
- Uzbek: “Sinaloa”
- Venetian: “Sinaloa”
- Vietnamese: “Sinaloa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sinaloa”
- Welsh: “Sinaloa”
- Western Panjabi: “سینالوا”
- Wu Chinese: “锡那罗亚州”
- Yoruba: “Sinaloa”
- Yue Chinese: “錫那羅亞州”
- “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 “Sinaloa”. Photo: Squawk7984, CC BY-SA 3.0.