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Culiacán (Spaingie pronunciation: [kuljaˈkan]) is a ceety in northwastren Mexico, the caipital o the state o Sinaloa as well as the caipital o the municipality o Culiacán. Wi 675,773 indwallers in the ceety (census o 2010), an 858,638 in the municipality, it is the lairgest ceety in the state o Sinaloa. The municipality haes a tot aurie o 4,758 km2 (1,837 sq mi).
Culiacán Rosales | |
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View o Culiacán | |
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 Location o Culiacán athin Sinaloa | |
 Location o Sinaloa athin Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 24°48′17.46″N 107°23′07.79″W | |
| Kintra | Mexico |
| State | Sinaloa |
| Foondation | 1531 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Hector Melesio Cuen Ojeda .svg){kind=small} PRI |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 858,638 |
| • Urban | 675,773 |
| • Demonym | Culichi |
| Time zone | UTC−7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (MDT) |
| Website | www.culiacan.gob.mx |
The ceety is locatit in a valley at the confluence o the Tamazula an Humaya Rivers, whaur the twa meet tae form the Culiacán River, an is locatit 55 meters abuin sea level. It is locatit in the centre o the state wi amaist equal distance tae the ither urban centers o the state: Los Mochis tae the north, an Mazatlán tae the sooth.
Maist fowk gree that the name Culiacán apparently comes frae the wird colhuacan, which can mean "palace o snakes", but tradeetionally the maist acceptit translation wad be "place o those who adore the creuk god Coltzin". Afore the Spaniards arrivit frae Europe, this steid haed been a smaw Indie dounset syne 628 whan Amerindians haed first foondit it.
The ceety existin the day wis foondit in 1531 bi the Spainyie captain Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán an namit San Miguel de Culiacán. In the same decade, it wis the terminus o the lang jurney o Cabeza de Vaca an company amang natives. Splorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set oot frae Culiacán tae splore what is nou the soothwastren Unitit States. Settlers frae Europe came tae Culiacán, an in the follaein hunderyears, Culiacán continued tae be a quiet toun. It wis anerly efter the federal govrenment biggit dams in the adjacent auries in the 1950s that agricultur explodit an the ceety began tae grow exponentially. Some o Mexico's lairgest agricultural conglomerates operate in the vast an growthie coastal plains. The agro-industrial economy continues toaebe the single lairgest contributor tae the region's legal economy. While the vast majority o technical an skilled labor is eddicatit locally, the ance-seasonal field labor puil nou experiences a yearly shortage o wirkers. Internaitional patterns o migration nou draw laborers frae deep athin Mexico's sooth tae the northren mairch states an intae the Unitit States.
Beginnin in the late 1950s, Culiacán became the birthplace o a incipient unnerground economy based on illicit drogs exportit tae the Unitit States. The completion o the Pan-American Heich-gate an the regional airport in the 1960s acceleratit the expansion o a wirkable distribution infrastructur for the enterprisin few faimilies that wad later come tae dominate the internaitional drog cairtels alang Mexico's Paceefic Northwast.
Culiacán haes a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh), despite receivin a annual rainfaw o ower 600 millimetre (24 in), due tae its het temperaturs an heich evaporation. Simmers are vera het an humid, shade temperaturs can reach 45 °C (113 °F) an heich humidy can produce heat indexes o 50 tae 55 °C (122 tae 131 °F), wi the risk o hivy rainfaw frae decayin tropical cyclones present an aw. Winters are hintle milder wi less humidity an a average heich o 27 °C, wi ceul nichts.
| Climate data for Culiacán (1951–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record heich °C (°F) | 41.0 (105.8) |
42.0 (107.6) |
39.0 (102.2) |
41.5 (106.7) |
41.5 (106.7) |
45.5 (113.9) |
42.5 (108.5) |
46.0 (114.8) |
41.5 (106.7) |
41.5 (106.7) |
42.5 (108.5) |
37.0 (98.6) |
46.0 (114.8) |
| Average heich °C (°F) | 27.8 (82.0) |
28.9 (84.0) |
30.5 (86.9) |
32.8 (91.0) |
34.9 (94.8) |
35.9 (96.6) |
35.5 (95.9) |
34.8 (94.6) |
34.4 (93.9) |
34.2 (93.6) |
31.5 (88.7) |
28.2 (82.8) |
32.5 (90.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 19.4 (66.9) |
20.1 (68.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
23.6 (74.5) |
26.4 (79.5) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.8 (85.6) |
29.3 (84.7) |
29.0 (84.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
23.5 (74.3) |
20.2 (68.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
| Average law °C (°F) | 10.9 (51.6) |
11.3 (52.3) |
12.1 (53.8) |
14.5 (58.1) |
18.0 (64.4) |
23.2 (73.8) |
24.1 (75.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.6 (74.5) |
20.7 (69.3) |
15.6 (60.1) |
12.2 (54.0) |
17.5 (63.5) |
| Record law °C (°F) | 2.0 (35.6) |
2.0 (35.6) |
3.0 (37.4) |
3.0 (37.4) |
9.0 (48.2) |
12.0 (53.6) |
13.0 (55.4) |
16.0 (60.8) |
17.0 (62.6) |
11.0 (51.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
3.0 (37.4) |
2.0 (35.6) |
| Average rainfaw mm (inches) | 18.4 (0.72) |
11.7 (0.46) |
2.8 (0.11) |
2.4 (0.09) |
1.1 (0.04) |
19.7 (0.78) |
162.8 (6.41) |
209.2 (8.24) |
141.6 (5.57) |
50.0 (1.97) |
21.3 (0.84) |
26.3 (1.04) |
667.3 (26.27) |
| Average rainy days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 13.8 | 14.8 | 10.8 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 53.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 68 | 63 | 59 | 56 | 57 | 62 | 70 | 74 | 74 | 70 | 66 | 68 | 66 |
| Mean monthly sunshine oors | 196.4 | 201.6 | 236.2 | 225.7 | 262.1 | 229.4 | 198.8 | 199.2 | 200.2 | 231.9 | 224.6 | 193.8 | 2,599.9 |
| Source #1: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional[1] | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Colegio de Postgraduados (humidity and sun)[2] | |||||||||||||
Culiacán's economy is mainly agricultural an commerce, bein a tred centre for produce, meat an fish. Amang ither industries, Culiacán represents 32% o the state economy.
Thare are companies o naitional importance heidquairtered in Culiacán lik Coppel, Casa Ley, Homex, amang ithers.
The Sinaloa Cairtel, a drog-trokin an organisit creeme syndicate, is based in Culiacán.[3]
The tot population o the ceety is 675,773. Immigration tae Culiacán comes frae aw pairts o the warld, but especially frae soothren Mexico, Japan, Cheenae, an Europe (Italy, Fraunce, Spain, Germany, Greece).
Culiacán is dividit intae 27 sectors (sectores), which are groups o several quairters (colonias):
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The newspaper El Debate is published in Culiacán.
At present, Culiacán haes juist ower 68 urban transport routes, which serves approximately 1 million uisers. The Culiacán urban transport is operatit bi RedPlus.
The ceety haes a train station, operatit bi Ferromex, an it is uised anerly tae transport freicht. It is connectit tae sooth wi Mazatlán an at north wi Guaymas.
Culiacán uisses the Central Internacional de Autobuses "Millennium" ("Millennium" Internaitional Buses Station) tae traivel athort aw Mexico (North, Centre an Sooth) an tae the Unitit States (Arizona an Californie). This replacit the auld bus terminal in the soothren ceety.
Tho thare are several heich speed roads, maist o the ceety's streets are rather narrae an traffec jams are common at rush oors.
Culiacán haes several roads (avenues, boulevards, streets, etc.) but some o thir are the main quick connection tae anither pynts tae the ceety.
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The ceety haes a tot o thirteen brigs: sax athort the Tamazula River, twa spannin the Humaya River an the langest ane wi ithers fower crossin Culiacán River. Efforts tae solve traffec problems hae been made but maist o the ceety streets an brigs are nou croudit an insufficient tae haundle regular an rush oors traffec; a fowerty km/h speed leemit in maist pairts o the ceety worsens the situation.
It wai recently published that thare are 300,000 caurs in Culiacán makkin the per caipita nummer o caurs ane o the heihest in the kintra considerin the 745,000 indwallers.
An aa, Culiacán haes brigs in streets conformin Heich Transit Seestems in places whaur is common the Rush Oor.
Culiacán is a rail junction an is locatit on the Panamerican Heich-gate that runs north tae the Unitit States an sooth tae Guadalajara an Mexico Ceety an the Benito Juárez Heich-gate or Maxipista, which is a toll road that runs parallel tae the toll-free Federal heich-gate. It is connectit tae north wi Los Mochis an tae sooth wi Mazatlán, Tepic an Guadalajara wi the Federal Heich-gate 15.
Culiacán is linkit tae the satellite ceety o Navolato bi a excellent freewey that nou reaches Altata, in the Paceefic Ocean coast. Culiacán is linkit tae Tamazula de Victoria in Durango state an aw.
Culiacán is servit bi Culiacán Internaitional Airport (IATA: CUL, ICAO: MMCL), the maist important domestic gatewey in the state o Sinaloa, an the seicont on internaitional operations efter Mazatlán Internaitional Airport. It is locatit sooth o dountoun. It is the 10t Mexican Air Force base an aw.
The ceety is hame tae twa profeesional league sport teams: basebaw wi the Tomateros de Culiacán frae the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico, twa championships in Caribbean series in 1996 an 2002; an fitbaa wi Dorados de Sinaloa, who play at the Estadio Banorte (Estadio Carlos González). Deuk, doo an guiss huntin saison goes frae early November throu Mairch. Culiacán haulds a yearly internaitional marathon.
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