Culiacan, officially Culiacan Rosales, is the capital and largest city of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, located within Culiacan Municipality. Spanish conquistadors Lazaro de Cebreros and Nuno Beltran de Guzman founded the city on 29 September 1531 under the name Villa de San Miguel, in honor of its patron saint Michael the Archangel.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Latitude24.790278 degrees north 1 Longitude107.387778 degrees west 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Wikipedia: Culiacan
Infobox, population_total
808,416
Infobox, population_as_of
2020
Infobox, area_total_km2
65
Infobox, established_date
1531
Wikidata, coordinate location (P625), latitude
24.790277777778,-107.38777777778
Wikidata, coordinate location (P625), longitude
24.790277777778,-107.38777777778
View the Source2. GeoNames: Culiacán - GeoNames
GeoNamesPlace record, elevationQuote, Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 47 m
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 24.75, -107.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 24.75, -107.25
24.75 -107.25 As
4. GeoNames: Culiacán - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 4012176Quote, cities500 record 4012176
24.80209 -107.39421 P PPLA MX 25 006 808416 47 America/Mazatlan
Wikidata: Culiacan
Wikidata Q211760, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Culiacan (Wikipedia)
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