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Sinaloa

Sinaloa is one of the 31 states of Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
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loa is bordered to the north by Sonora

Sonora

Sonora is one of the 31 States of Mexico and is located in the northwest of the country....
and Chihuahua; to the south, by Nayarit

Nayarit

Nayarit is one of Political divisions of Mexico and is located on the central west coast, bordering the Pacific Ocean. Nayarit is surrounded by the states of Sinaloa to the northwest, Durango to the north, Zacatecas to the northeast and Jalisco to the south with the Pacific Ocean bordering it to the west....
; to the east by Durango

Durango

Durango is one of the constituent states of Mexico. Its population is 1,509,118. It has Mexico's second-lowest population density, after Baja California Sur....
, and to the west, across the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur The state is known for its natural riches and tourism. The Vizca?no Desert and small coastal lakes San Ignacio and Ojo de Liebre in the north are protected by the federal government....
. The eighteen municipios of Sinaloa are home to approximately 2,425,675 inhabitants. The coastal plain is a narrow strip of land that stretches along the length of the state and lies between the ocean and the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental Range, which dominates the eastern part of the state.

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Sinaloa is one of the 31 states of Mexico

Mexico

Geography

Sinaloa is bordered to the north by Sonora

Sonora

Sonora is one of the 31 States of Mexico and is located in the northwest of the country....
and Chihuahua; to the south, by Nayarit

Nayarit

Durango

Baja California Sur

Culture

Culturally, it is known for a style of music known as banda
Banda music

Banda is a brass instrument-based form of traditional Music of Mexico. Bandas play a wide variety of songs, including rancheras, corridos, cumbias, ballads, and boleros....
, and corrido
Corrido

The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry form, a ballad ,of Mexico. It derives largely from the 18th century Spanish romance , and in its most known form consists of 1) a salutation from the singer and prologue to the story; 2) the story itself; 3) a moral and farewell from the singer....
is also popular. It is the only place in the continent where the ancient ball game

Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica. The sport had different versions in different places during the millennia, and a modern version of the game, Ulama game, is still played in a few places by the local Native American ....
of Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries....
is still played, in a handful of small, rural communities not far from Mazatlán

Mazatlán

Mazatl?n is a city in the Mexico States of Mexico of Sinaloa; the surrounding municipio for which the city serves as the municipal seat is also called Mazatl?n....
. The ritual ball game was central in the society, religion and cosmology

Cosmology

Cosmology is study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent , study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion....
of all the great Mesoamerican cultures including the Mixtec

Mixtec

The Mixtec are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples inhabiting the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla in a region known as La Mixteca. The Mixtecan languages form an important branch of the Otomanguean linguistic family....
s, Aztecs, and Maya. The Sinaloa version of the ball game (the consensus is that it is very faithful indeed to the original game) is called ulama. There are efforts to avoid the extinction of this (at least) 3,500-year old unique tradition by supporting the communities and children that still play it.

Demographics

The state capital of Sinaloa is Culiacán

Culiacán

Culiac?n is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiac?n....
. Other large cities in Sinaloa with airports that serve as points of entry include Mazatlán

Mazatlán

Mazatl?n is a city in the Mexico States of Mexico of Sinaloa; the surrounding municipio for which the city serves as the municipal seat is also called Mazatl?n....
, a tourist resort, and Los Mochis

Los Mochis

Los Mochis is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico, located at . It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2005 census, the population was 231,977, or almost 60 percent of the municipality's population....
, an agricultural

Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
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Economy

The main productive activities of Sinaloa are agriculture, fishing, livestock breeding, commerce and industry. The products obtained from these activities are used for both local and national consumption. Agriculture produces tomatoes, beans, corn, wheat, sorghum, potatoes, soybeans, sugarcane and squash. Sinaloa is one of the most prominent states in Mexico in terms of agriculture, and additionally has one of the largest fishing

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
fleets. Live stock produces meat, sausages, cheese and milk.

Illegal Drugs

Some of the illegal drugs that come into the United States and other countries come out of Sinaloa, ranging from marijuana

Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
and meth

Methamphetamine

is a stimulant and sympathomimetics psychoactive drug. It is a member of the family of phenylethylamines. The levorotary levomethamphetamine is an over-the-counter drug and used in Vicks Inhalers for nasal decongestion and does not possess the Central nervous system activity of dextro or racemic methamphetamine....
to crack cocaine

Crack cocaine

Crack cocaine, crack or rock is a solid, smokable form of cocaine. It is a freebase form of cocaine that can be made using baking soda or sodium hydroxide, in a process to convert cocaine hydrochloride into methylbenzoylecgonine ....
. Marijuana is the top illegal drug produced in the state. In May 2008, the Mexican government dispatched roughly 30,000 troops to control drug-related crime. An estimated 1,000 deaths over the prior year were related to drug cartel

Drug cartel

Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling Illegal_drug_trade operations. They range from loosely-managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises....
activity, including those of Alfredo Beltran Leyva (aka El Mochomo) and Ramon Arellano Felix

Ramón Arellano Félix

'Ram?n Eduardo Arellano F?lix' was a Mexico whom authorities linked to the Tijuana Cartel .The 188 cm and 100 kg frame of Arellano F?lix was allegedly one of the most ruthless members of the cartel and was a suspect in various murders....
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Weather

Sinaloa has a warm climate on the coast side, moderate-warm in the valleys and lower mountainskirts, moderate-cold in small mountains and cold in the high ones. Its weather characteristics vary from subtropical, found on the plains, to cold in the nearby mountains. Temperatures range from 22° C to 43° C with rains during the summer.

Films

2006 - (To the Other Side). Directed by Natalia Almada.

External links

http://www.medicosculiacan.com