SINALOA

sēnälōˈä, state (1990 pop. 2,204,054), 22,582 sq mi (58,487 sq km), W Mexico, on the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Culiacán is the capital. A long, narrow territory lying between the ocean and mountain spurs of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Sinaloa has low, hot, humid plains and numerous marshes. The varying elevation, many rivers, and fertile valleys contribute to the variety of crops grown, including grains, tomatoes, cotton, sugarcane, and rice. The state's industry is mostly related to the processing of agricultural products. Fishing and livestock breeding are economically important. Sinaloa lies in a rich mining region where gold, silver, zinc, and copper are mined. Its forest products—fine woods and rubber—are not widely exploited. The state has numerous mineral springs. Sinaloa's coast has many sheltered harbors, but only Mazatlán is a major port. Sinaloa was joined with Sonora during the Spanish period; it became a separate state in 1830.

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books on: Sinaloa  - 459 results

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1.
Mayo Ethnobotany: Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico
Book by David Yetman, Thomas R. Van Devender; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Ethnobotany--Mexico--Sinaloa (State), Ethnobotany--Mexico--Sonora (State), Mayo Indians--Ethnobotany
...Sonora (State). 3. Ethnobotany Mexico Sinaloa (State). I. Van Devender, Thomas R. II...Mangrove estuary near Topolobampo, Sinaloa 63 Coastal thornscrub near Camahuiroa...tropical deciduous forest, Los Capomos, Sinaloa 71 Transitional tropical deciduous...
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Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768
Book by Harry W. Crosby; University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Subjects: Baja California (Mexico)--History, California--History--To 1846, Indians Of Mexico--Mexico--Baja California--History, Indians Of North America--California--History--18th Century, Jesuits--Missions--California, Jesuits--Missions--Mexico--Baja California, Spaniards--California--History--18th Century
...The Old Walled Town of Villa de Sinaloa Mision de San Luis Gonzaga...Towns and Jesuit Missions in Sonora and Sinaloa c. 1690 9...personal empires in what is now Nayarit and Sinaloa. They called on the crown for conquerors...
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Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War
Book by John Mason Hart; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Americans--Mexico--History, Investments, American--Mexico--History, Mexico--Relations--United States, Nationalism--Mexico--History, United States--Relations--Mexico
...sent Vega, the governor of the state of Sinaloa, to San Francisco. He contracted with...baldios, or uncharted lands, in Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California. The project became...Hidalgo, Veracruz, Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa to encourage Mexicans to develop their...
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Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850
Book by Cynthia Radding; Duke University Press, 1997
Subjects: Ethnicity--Mexico--Sonora (State), Indians Of Mexico--Mexico--Sonora (State)--Social Conditions, Social Change--Mexico--Sonora (State), Social Classes--Mexico--Sonora (State), Social Ecology--Mexico--Sonora (State), Sonora (Mexico : State)--Ethnic Relations, Sonora (Mexico : State)--History, Sonora (Mexico : State)--Social Conditions
...4.2 Chronology of Major Epidemics in Sinaloa and Sonora 116...5.2 Population of Sinaloa and Sonora, 1785 164...northern New Spain. The provinces of Sinaloa, Ostimuri, and Sonora constituted an...
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Alvaro Obregon: Power and Revolution in Mexico, 1911-1920
Book by Linda B. Hall; Texas A&M University Press, 1981
Subjects: Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946, Obregon, Alvaro--1880-1928
...these relationships extended to northern Sinaloa as well, and helps explain a certain...weapons, and ammunition to help in the Sinaloan campaign, paying the costs of this help...of Obregons strongest supporters were Sinaloans. 10 Furthermore, landowning, though...
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2: Historical Outline of Mission Development in Sonora
Journal article; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Historic buildings, Sonora, Mexico, Spanish colonialism--History, Spanish colonialism--Religious aspects, Spanish missions--Buildings and facilities, Spanish missions--History
...establish the Villa de San Felipe on the Sinaloa River. Almost thirty years later, the...undertake the missionization of the Indians of Sinaloa, beginning with the tribes on the Fuerte...rivers from that located at San Felipe in Sinaloa. There followed two generations of peaceful...
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Romancing the Cause: Fourierism, Feminism, and Free Love in "Papa's Own Girl."
Journal article by Susan Lynch Foster; Utopian Studies, Vol. 8, 1997
Subjects: American fiction--Themes, motives, Feminism and literature--Analysis, Papa's Own Girl (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sentimentalism in literature--Political aspects, Utopias in literature--Analysis
...advertised the novel in The Credit Foncier of Sinaloa, the organ that publicized the utopian...brave to-day with the faithful pioneers in Sinaloa. I think I never made an investment...Howland," published in the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa after his death in Mexico, is not entirely...
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Resurgent Mexican Phoenix
Journal article by Alex P. Oberle, Daniel D. Arreola; The Geographical Review, Vol. 98, 2008
Subjects: Cities and towns--Demographic aspects, Cities and towns--Social aspects, Phoenix, Arizona--Demographic aspects, Phoenix, Arizona--Social aspects
...lesser extent, the states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa (Tinker Salas 1997). FIGURE 6 OMITTED...percent of Chihuahua, and 2 percent of Sinaloa; from 1913 to 1920, 70 percent were from...percent from Chihuahua, and 5 percent from Sinaloa; and from 1920 to 1926, 47 percent hailed...
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Preserving Old Buildings in Mazatlan: Cultural Preservation or Change?
Journal article by Tracy Duvall; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Historic buildings, Historic buildings--Analysis
...PROBLEM OF CULTURAL PRESERVATION Mazatlan, Sinaloa, lies just within the tropics, on Mexicos...immigrant smugglers" (Gobierno del Estado de Sinaloa 1994: 132). But they were much more than...Municipal, the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, and the Echeguren estate (Carillo Rojas...
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References
Journal article; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Archival materials--Bibliography, Regionalism--Bibliography
...UAL) 1. Parish Archives of Sonora and Sinaloa (PASS). AZU Film #811. Arizpe. Reels 10-18...44 2. Parish Archives of Sonora and Sinaloa (PASS). Microfilm copies (0601) of originals...Spain. Vol. 2, Part 1: The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora 1700-1765. Tucson: University of...
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Working Out
Magazine article by George W. Grayson; The National Interest, Winter 2002
Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Industrial promotion, Millan Lizarraga, Juan S.--Economic policy, Sinaloa, Mexico--Economic aspects
...unlikely trio has transformed the state of Sinaloa from a narcodealers paradise to a magnet...down in a protracted recession, sun-baked Sinaloa has led the nation in job creation during...abundance of corruption and narco-clans? Does Sinaloas experience hold any lessons for the rest...
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Mexican Candidate Hires Clinton Team
Magazine article by J. Michael Waller; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, July 3, 2000
Subjects: Carville, James--Practice, Hank Gonzalez, Carlos--Political activity, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico)--Political activity, Labastida Ochoa, Francisco--Political activity, Mexico--Politics and government, United States--Relations with Mexico
...concern his six-year term as governor of Sinaloa, a Pacific coast state that has been a...trafficking when he served as governor of Sinaloa from 1987 to 1993, as Insight has reported...was shepherded into the governorship of Sinaloa with the election-rigging help of then-incumbent...
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The Narcostate Next Door
Magazine article by J. Michael Waller; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, December 27, 1999
Subjects: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico)--Political activity, Labastida Ochoa, Francisco--Political activity, Political corruption--Mexico, Presidential candidates--Political activity
...with drug traffickers while governor of Sinaloa, a Pacific-coast state, a decade ago...traffickers since his term as governor of Sinaloa from 1987 through 1992. Home to the resort city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa became an important transshipment point...
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History Moving North
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, February 1997
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law--Political aspects, Immigration law--Political aspects, Job creation--Mexico, Mexican-American Border Region--Forecasts and trends, Mexico--Forecasts and trends
...authority." The coastal state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, is "brown" and, by all accounts, getting browner. Sinaloa is drug country. Nowhere else in...violence, though, are only half of the Sinaloan reality. Sinaloa produces three quarters...
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History Moving North: As Mexican Society Fragments, the Impact Will Hit the United States with Force
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, February 1997
Subjects: Mexico--Social aspects
...authority." The coastal state of sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, is "brown" and, by all accounts, getting browner. Sinaloa is drug country. Nowhere else in...violence, though, are only half of the Sinaloan reality. Sinaloa produces three quarters...
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CIA Links Mexico's Interior Minister to Drug Lords
Newspaper article by Bill Gertz; The Washington Times, February 5, 1998
Subjects: Labastida Ochoa, Francisco, Mexico
...since serving as governor of the state of Sinaloa for six years, according to a report labeled...narco-traffickers since his stint as governor of Sinaloa," the CIA report stated. According to...of the northwestern coastal province of Sinaloa, a reputed bastion of illegal drug-trafficking...
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Treasury Hits Fronts for Drug Trafficker; Six Companies, Relatives on List
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 18, 2007
Subjects: Drug dealing, Drug traffic, Pharmaceutical industry
...Ismael Zambada Garcia, the leader of a Sinaloa-based drug trafficking organization named...Ganaderos de Culiacan S.A. de C.V., a large, Sinaloa-based cattle and dairy company, and Mr...along with Joaquin Guzman Loera of the Sinaloa drug cartel - the most modern and violent...
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Mexico Denies Interior Minister Has Ties to Drug Bosses
Newspaper article by Bill Gertz; The Washington Times, February 6, 1998
Subjects: Labastida Ochoa, Francisco, Mexico, United States. Central Intelligence Agency
...fighting drug trafficking while governor of Sinaloa, according to an Interior Ministry statement...narco-traffickers since his stint as governor of Sinaloa," a north-central state considered a hotbed...secretary of agriculture and governor of Sinaloa, "an area infamous for narcotics trafficking...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 18, 2005
...Carmen Estigoy of Eugene, who died Sept. 16 of age-related causes. She was 91. Estigoy was born Dec. 14, 1913, in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, to Todd and Maria Ocana Rangel. She moved from Mexico to Eugene in 1926, and attended Eugene public schools. She was...
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For Its 15th Year, Fiesta Latina Thinks Young
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 15, 2006
...30 p.m. - Organizacion Oaxaca 7:15 p.m. - Los Llegadores de Sinaloa 8:30 p.m. - Tormenta de Durango 10 p.m. - Jose Cruz and his...p.m. - Mariachi Azteca de Oro 3:30 p.m. - Los Llegadores de Sinaloa 5:15 p.m. - Ballet Folclorico Infantil de Eugene 6 p.m. - El...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sinaloa  - 9 results

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Sinaloa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SINALOA senalo a, state (1990 pop. 2,204,054), 22,582 sq mi...ocean and mountain spurs of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Sinaloa has low, hot, humid plains and numerous marshes. The varying...Fishing and livestock breeding are economically important. Sinaloa lies in a rich mining region where gold, silver, zinc...
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Guasave
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
GUASAVE gwasa va, city (1990 pop. 49,338), Sinaloa state, W Mexico, on the Sinaloa River. The growing of cotton and corn and the raising of livestock are the chief occupations. The city was established in 1595 as a Spanish mission among the Guasave...
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Ahome
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
AHOME ao ma, city, Sinaloa state, W Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. Ahome lies along the Inter-American Highway and is linked by rail with Mexico City. Sugarcane...
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MazatlÁn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MAZATLAN masatlan , city (1990 pop. 262,705), Sinaloa state, W Mexico, on the Pacific coast. One of the largest commercial and industrial centers of W Mexico, Mazatlan is one of Mexicos...
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Los Mochis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LOS MOCHIS los mo ches, city (1990 pop. 162,659), Sinaloa state, W Mexico. Los Mochis is connected to Mexico City by highway and to the port of Topolobampo by road and rail. It also has...
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