Culiacán Municipality

Municipality of Culiacán Municipio de Culiacán
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of the municipality in Sinaloa
Coordinates: 24.808°N 107.397°W / 24.808; -107.397
Country	Mexico
State	Sinaloa
Foundation	1915
Seat	Culiacán Rosales
Government
• Municipal president	Juan de Dios Gámez Mendivil
Area
• Total	4,758 km^2 (1,837 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	858,638[1]
• Density	180.5/km^2 (467/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Zona Pacífico)
Website	Culiacán Government page

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

The municipal seat is 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

• Media related to Culiacán Municipality at Wikimedia Commons

References

1. "Main results by locality 2010". INEGI. 2010.
2. "-". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on January 28, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
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.