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City in Sinaloa, Mexico

Place in Sinaloa, Mexico

Mazatlán
Clockwise, from upper left: Hotel Zone, Monument to Mazatleca women, Mazatlán pier, Cordones Island, Mazatlán Cathedral, Panoramic view of the city
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname(s): Pacific Pearl, Fish Land
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Coordinates: 23°13′North 106°25′W  /  23.217°North 106.417°W  / 23.217; -106.417 Coordinates: 23°13′N 106°25′W  /  23.217°N 106.417°W  / 23.217; -106.417
Country	United mexican states
Country	Sinaloa
Municipality	Mazatlán
Settled	May xiv, 1531
Authorities
• Mayor	Luis Guillermo Benítez Torres "El Químico" ("The Pharmacist")
Area
• Municipality	3,068.5 km2 (1,184.75 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	502,547
• Density	143/km2 (370/sq mi)
Demonym(south)	Mazatleco, Mazatleca
Time zone	UTC-seven (Pacific (The states Mountain))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (Pacific)
Postal code	82000-
Area code(s)	669
Website	www.mazatlan.gob.mx

Mazatlán (Spanish pronunciation: [masaˈtlan] ( mind )) is a city in the Mexican land of Sinaloa. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipio, known as the Mazatlán Municipality. It is located at 23°xiii′N 106°25′W  /  23.217°N 106.417°W  / 23.217; -106.417 on the Pacific coast, beyond from the southernmost tip of the Baja California Peninsula.

Mazatlán is a Nahuatl word meaning "place of deer". The city was founded in 1531 by an army of Spaniards and indigenous people. Past the mid-19th century, a large group of immigrants arrived from Germany. Over time, Mazatlán developed into a commercial seaport, importing equipment for the nearby gold and silver mines. Information technology served every bit the capital of Sinaloa from 1859 to 1873. The German language settlers too influenced the local music, banda, with some genres beingness an alteration of Bavarian folk music. The settlers also established the Pacifico Brewery on March fourteen, 1900. Mazatlán has a rich culture and fine art customs. In add-on to the Angela Peralta Theater, Mazatlán has many galleries and artist's studios. Mazatlán'south fine art museum, the Museo del Arte, exhibits both Mexican and international artists.

With a population of 438,434 (urban center) and 489,987 (municipality) as of the 2010 demography, Mazatlán is the 2nd-largest city in the state. It is too a tourist destination, with its beaches lined with resort hotels. A car ferry crosses the Gulf of California, from Mazatlán to La Paz, Baja California Sur. The municipality has a state area of three,068.48 km² (1,184.75 sq mi) and includes smaller outlying communities such as Villa Unión, La Noria, El Quelite, and El Habal. Mazatlán is served by General Rafael Buelna International Airdrome.

Etymology [edit]

Mazatlán etymologically comes from the Nahuatl language and means "Land of deer" (mazatl "deer" and Tlan: "earth" or "place").^[ane]

Originally, the name Presidio of Mazatlán was used for what is now called Villa Unión. The port of Mazatlán served as a reference to arrive to Presidio past body of water, and was called the Islands of Mazatlán. Past decree of the Estado de Occidente, on September 11, 1828, Presidio of Mazatlán was renamed Villa of the Union. This freed the proper noun Mazatlán (state of deer), and since the port was known every bit Islas de Mazatlán, the name was adopted.

History [edit]

Early settlers [edit]

Indigenous groups were in the region of Mazatlán prior to the inflow of the Castilian. These groups included the Totorames, who lived from the south bank of the River Piaxtla, to the Río de las Cañas, also equally the Xiximes, who lived in the mountains in the bordering state of Durango.

According to the Codex Mendoza, the region was conquered under the reign of Tizoc and incorporated into the Aztec Empire.

Colonial menses [edit]

During the early years of the Spanish conquest in Sinaloa, the region currently occupied by the municipality of Mazatlán remained uninhabited. The nearest town was Chametla, which was occupied by the Castilian in 1531, and lent its proper noun to the province, despite being abased shortly afterward.

The city was founded in 1531 past an army of Spaniards and indigenous people.^[two]

In 1534, the Valley of Mazatlán was divided into 25 Castellanos by an unknown person who did not stay for long. In 1576, Don Hernando de Bazán, Governor and Helm General of Nueva Vizcaya, sent Helm Martín Hernández with his father, brothers, and soldiers to occupy the site of Mazatlán, granting them state and titles in return. The Captain's claims were ratified in the Metropolis of Durango in 1639, and endorsed in the aforementioned urban center in 1650.

Nuño de Guzmán's entry to Sinaloa in 1531, and the appointment of the conquered lands as provinces, prompted the internal territorial sectionalisation of the State. Chametla was occupied by the Spanish, and listed the province extending from the Rio Cañas Elota to the boundary with the province of Culiacán. Both provinces belonged to the kingdom of New Galicia.

In 1565, the town of Chametla was gradually diminished past ongoing Indian raids. That year, Captain Francisco de Ibarra recovered the territory due south of the state, rebuilt Chametla, and founded the Villa de San Sebastián (known today as Concordia), and awarded the region to New Vizcaya. The provinces under his jurisdiction included the villages of San Sebastián, Charcas, Copala and Pánuco.

During the concluding years of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, the territory within Sinaloa remained unchanged, until 1732, when the provinces of Sonora and Ostimuri were united, as were the provinces of Sinaloa, Culiacán, and Rosario, with San Felipe and Santiago beingness the chief cities.

In 1749, Sinaloa was divided into five provinces with their mayors and lieutenancy: Maloya, with jurisdiction over Chametla, Rosario, and San José; Copala, with jurisdiction over San Ignacio, Piaxtla, and Mazatlán; Culiacán, with jurisdiction over Badiraguato, and Sinaloa, which bordered the Mayo River.

In 1786, the intendant organization was implemented due to the need to institute a provincial government. Arizpe Municipality was formed out of the territories of Sonora and Sinaloa. That twelvemonth, the starting time mayor, Garrido Durán, established 11 subdelegations, eight of them in Sinaloa, with Mazatlán being within the subdelegation of Copala, which was subsequently chosen San Sebastián.

Contained United mexican states [edit]

Among the first decrees that the legislature enacted was that the addition of each of the 11 districts, and this marriage, respective to the Wedlock Villa Mariano Balleza, exist given the proper name of one of the leading insurgents, parish priest Dolores Hidalgo, on the night of September xv, 1810.

In 1813, the Cadiz constitution came into outcome. Article 310 of that constitution provided for the installation of local councils in towns that had more than than 1,000 inhabitants. In 1814, Fernando 7 repealed that constitution but information technology was afterward reinstated in 1820, and the first municipalities in Sinaloa were founded.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Mazatlán was a native fishing village located northward of Cerro de la Aduana. In 1821, it was declared the first port of Mazatlán on Mexico's Pacific declension.

Jurisdictionally, Mazatlán remained dependent on the sub-delegation of San Sebastian, unaffected past the divisions between united states of america of Sonora and Sinaloa. In 1824, they got together to form the Western Country. After the imposition of new internal divisions of five departments and municipalities divided into parties, Mazatlán was in the section of San Sebastian, which was formed with the parties of its name, San Ignacio and the Rosary, and it extended to the River of Reeds.

In 1830, the Western State was divided into ii states. The get-go constitution of the land of Sinaloa, promulgated on Dec 12, 1831, divided the territory into eleven districts with their respective parties, leaving the district boondocks of La Union separated from Agree and San Ignacio.

Lithograph of Mazatlán in 1845

Until the early 19th century, Mazatlán was a drove of huts inhabited by ethnic people whose major occupation was line-fishing, according to Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars, a French explorer. In 1829, a Filipino banker named Juan Nepomuceno Machado arrived and established commercial relations with vessels coming to Mazatlán from far off places such as Chile, Peru, the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Past 1836, the city had a population of betwixt four,000 and 5,000. It subsequently became the largest port on the Mexican Pacific coast.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1846 during the Mexican-American state of war, Mazatlán was invaded and occupied by the U.S. war machine as part of the U.S. Pacific Coast campaign. In 1859, the port was blockaded by Captain Sidney Grenfell of the British steamship H.Grand.S. Amethyst.^[3] On November 13, 1864, the French Army and the Imperialist forces took possession of Mazatlán, until they were deported on November 13, 1866, by Full general Ramón Corona's forces. After community officials seized twenty-iii ounces of aureate from the British warship Chanticleer on June eighteen, 1868, which at the time was blockading the port, its captain, William H. Bridge, threatened to bomb the city on November 22.

During the California Gold Rush, fortune hunters from the The states' Due east Declension sailed from New York Harbor and other Atlantic ports to Mexican ports in the Gulf of United mexican states. After landing, the aspiring miners travelled over land for weeks to Mazatlán, where they would embark from the port to arrive in San Francisco in another four to five weeks.

When Félix Zuloaga Tacubaya proclaimed the Plan of Ignoring the Constitution of 1857, the garrison of the Plaza de Mazatlán did non remain outside this proclamation, and on the first of January, 1858, the Plan of Mazatlán was proclaimed, which followed Zuloaga's Plan.

The capital letter of Sinaloa, until the year 1853, had been Culiacán. Nevertheless that year, the capital was transferred to Mazatlán. On July 22, 1867, the federal government passed a police force that forbade state capitals from also acting as ports. As a result of this constabulary, on September twenty, 1873, the Country Legislature decreed that Culiacán would exist the state uppercase again.

The Siglo 19 constitution of 1852 decreed a new internal sectionalization in Sinaloa, which reduced information technology to 9 districts past removing San Ignacio, which had been annexed to the Cosalá, and Choix, which had been annexed to El Fuerte. Information technology also amended the proper noun of the commune from Villa de la Union to the port of Mazatlán. That same constitution too decreed the headquarters and council facility policies in each district.

In 1861, the political headquarters were removed and turned into prefectures, and the same year the State Legislature adopted the Deed on Municipalities. In 1868, the district had five municipalities in Mazatlán; i in the center and the other four in Villa Union, Siqueiros, La Noria, and The Milkweed.

On the morning of November 13, 1864, French Navy ships fired twelve cannon shots into the city, causing minor damage to several homes, but not causing any deaths. The attack stopped when the prefect of the city made known to the invaders that the Mexican Army had left the square and the city was formally ceded to the French.

The Mazatlán Times was a weekly published by the American A. D. Jones. The first upshot appeared on May 12, 1863. The publisher boasted that his was the just weekly English-language newspaper, not only in Mazatlán and Sinaloa, but throughout United mexican states.

In 1873, according to the census of the Land, the District of Mazatlán was reduced to three municipalities: Mazatlán, Villa Spousal relationship, and La Noria. Siqueiros had been annexed in 1870 to the primal municipality, and The Milkweed to La Noria.

Porfiriato [edit]

A country house in Mazatlán. During the Porfiriato, wealth and manufacture arrived to the city.

Mazatlán's lighthouse (El Faro) began operating in mid-1879. The maritime signals were manufactured in Paris, France, containing a big oil lamp with mirrors, and a Fresnel lens to focus the light. Since the calorie-free was static, from a distance information technology was often mistaken for a star. Past 1905, this lamp was converted to a revolving lamp. During that period, the Mazatlán lighthouse was considered to exist the naturally highest in the globe. Today, the 1000 watt bulb tin be seen for 30 nautical miles (lx km). Near the lighthouse shore, famous "divers" (called this even by the Castilian-speaking inhabitants of Mazatlán) perform daring jumps off high rocks into the Pacific Ocean, for tips from onlooking tourists.

On June 26, 1880, Jesus Ramirez, former full general in command of 400 men, stormed the garrison of the foursquare and appropriated Mazatlán. The city was subsequently bombed again by the Mexican warship the Democratic, which, during its attack, killed and wounded a high number of women and children. Of the 24 cannon shots fired, only three hit the army headquarters, and the balance landed on neighboring houses.

Angela Peralta (1845–1883), a Mexican opera diva famed throughout the world, died of yellow fever in Mazatlán before long later on her arrival in the port. Legend has it that she sang ane terminal aria from her hotel balcony overlooking the Plazuela Machado. Her retentiveness is held dearest by Mazatlecos to this day, and the restored Angela Peralta Theater past the Plazuela keeps her retentiveness alive.

The Cerveceria del Pacífico was founded in the metropolis in 1900 by German immigrants.

Mexican Revolution [edit]

Insubordinate Infantry most Mazatlán, 1914

In 1912, the municipalities enacted constabulary No.21 as a course of internal division of the State. However, it wasn't until 1915 that the law was abolished by the political directorate, when information technology erected the beginning costless communes.

With the publication of the prescript creating the municipality of Mazatlán in the official newspaper on April 8, 1915, contained life began in the region. The Constitution of 1917, culminating in the first constitutional governor, General Ramón F. Iturbe, born in Mazatlán, confirmed the xvi municipalities into which the state was divided, which would and then be subdivided into receiverships and police precincts.

The City of Mazatlán has the dubious distinction of being the second city in the world after Tripoli, Libya, to suffer aerial bombardment (although the local historical display at the plazuela claims that Mazatlán was the first). During the Mexican Revolution, General Venustiano Carranza (later president), intent on taking the city of Mazatlán, ordered a biplane to driblet a crude flop of nails and dynamite wrapped in leather on the target of Neveria Hill adjacent to the downtown area of Mazatlán. The crude flop landed off target on the city streets of Mazatlán, killing ii citizens and wounding several others.

Mod [edit]

Mazatlán is also the hometown of Pedro Infante, 1 of the almost pop actors and singers of the Picture palace of United mexican states's golden years.

Mazatlán was well regarded past film stars such every bit John Wayne, Gary Cooper, John Huston, and others of their generation as a sportfishing mecca. The hotels along Olas Altas flourished during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, supporting this vibrant trade.

In the 1970s, tourism in Sometime Mazatlán declined equally newer venues catering to Western tourists opened on the expanses of embankment to the north of the urban center ("Zona Dorada"). Every bit an case of Mazatlán's tourism expansion, ane of the largest timeshare providers in Mexico, Grupo Vidanta, was founded in 1975 with the inauguration of Paraíso Mazatlán (Mazatlán Paradise). This fourth dimension also saw the expansion of the Hotel Playa Mazatlán, and the structure of many others, a trend that continues to this day.

Next to Infante, Lorena Herrera, one of the most famous actresses and singers in Mexico and Latin America during the final decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century, is Mazatlán'south nearly famous native.^{[ citation needed ]} German-built-in telenovela star Sabine Moussier, a stablemate of Herrera'southward—both accept been under Televisa contract since the 1990s—also grew up in Mazatlán. Hollywood and Broadway extra Sara Ramirez is also a Mazatlán native.

Equally the 21st century began, the Centro Histórico was rediscovered by newcomers and locals alike, spurring a renaissance of restoration and entrepreneurial endeavors. Once-fine homes that had fallen into literal ruin were restored to their former glory every bit family homes and boutique businesses. The metropolis has assisted past upgrading infrastructure such as better water, sewer, and electrical services.

Neighboring communities [edit]

The town of Mazatlán is organized territorially into ix syndicates:

Mazatlán: Municipal capital letter, largest and nearly important tourist destination.

Villa Wedlock: Located 25 km from Mazatlán, 2d most important town of the municipality. Information technology is said that the first settlers belonged to a Spanish family who arrived there in 1576. Among its economic activities are fishing, agriculture, livestock, fruit growing, aquaculture, and brick making.^[4]

El Recodo: Then-called for the square shape of the Rio Presidio at this bespeak. It is the cradle of Don Cruz Lizarraga, founder of the international Banda El Recodo. Its economic activities are livestock, agriculture, fruit growing, tanning, and saddlery.^[5]

El Quelite: A picturesque and attractive tourist town located 38 km northwest of Mazatlán. The El Quelite River passes through it. Its houses contain the Spanish classical influence predominant in the eighteenth century. Charrería is adept here, as is the Prehispanic game called Ulama. The main economic activities are: livestock, agriculture, farming and fruit growing.^[6]

Mármol de Salcido: This town is 32 km from Mazatlán. It was an of import cement and line production center. Its current economic activity is the production of chilies, provender, and tomatoes; its coast has a big number of pristine beaches.^[7]

El Roble: Founded in 1867, information technology is 32 km from Mazatlán. It became the largest saccharide manufactory in the south of the state. Its main economical activities are agriculture and the production of cheese and honey.^[8]

Siqueiros: Originally called Penitas, it then adopted the proper name of San José de Siqueiros, in laurels of the patron saint of the town, and the proper name of its founder. Founded in 1749, it is located 29 km from Mazatlán on the Presidio River. Among its economic activities are agriculture, livestock, and vegetables.^[9]

La Noria: Located 35 km northwest of Mazatlán, its first settlers engagement from the late sixteenth century. Amid its economical activities are livestock, agriculture, and saddlery. Information technology is close to Presa Picachos.^[10] A few miles away is the famous Vinata de Los Osuna, a major producer of blue agave, belonging to the family of the same name.^[11]

El Habal: A village located 10 km north of Mazatlán. Its inhabitants are engaged in animal husbandry, farming, and fruit growing.^[12]

Geography [edit]

The town of Mazatlán is located in the southern Sinaloa. With a country area of 3,068.v square kilometres (1,184.8 sq mi) (5.three% of the total area of the state), it is Sinaloa's 9th largest municipality. It is bordered on the north by the municipality of San Ignacio and the country of Durango, on the southward by the town of Rosario and the Pacific Ocean, on the e by the town of Concordia, and on the west past the Pacific Ocean.

Its average elevation is 10 metres (33 ft) in a higher place sea level.

Geomorphology [edit]

The orography is determined by the ramifications of the Sierra Madre Occidental on the northwestern coastal plain begetting towards the Pacific Ocean, where the hills rise towards Vigia, Punta de Materén, and the Monte chair. This orography, before entering the municipality of San Ignacio, takes the proper noun of Sierra del Metate, whose characteristic is the formation of Peak Metate.

At the edge of Mazatlán and Concordia runs the Sierra del Metate and Panuco. In this canton, the Sierra Madre Occidental is diverted to penetrate Durango, leaving earlier some detachments, such as the Sierra de San Juan and the Friars, and constitutes, in of its topography, the following hilly areas:

To the due north end of town ane can see the Friars extending northwest, with elevations ranging from 150 to one,900 meters above sea level. In the northwestern portion, El Quelite branches take elevations of fifty–700 meters above sea level. On the s-east and n sides, Arroyo de La Noria and some tributaries of the River El Quelite rise. The town of La Noria is located in this same office of the mountain, extending in a northwesterly direction at 300 and 500 meters higher up bounding main level. On its western side, the Zapote Beck begins. The Sierra de San Marcos is located in the n at 50 to 700 meters to a higher place sea level. Forming the southeastern and northwestern slopes are Brook Copala and some tributaries of the Presidio River.

Geology [edit]

Yacht tour, Mazatlán, Sinaloa.

The geological nature of the municipality, primarily fabricated of sedimentary rock, gives rise to the outcrop of fragments of marine and consolidated rocks, and volcanic and metamorphic rocks. Mazatlán generally consists of tonalite and monsonitas belonging to the Middle Tertiary: rhyodacites, rhyolites and ignimbrites with tuffaceous sediments at the base outcrops; andesitic rocks and felsitic late Early Cretaceous conglomerate, sandstone, tuff, sandy tuff "tobalítica", conglomeratic sandstone, arkose storm origins and late 3rd rhyolitic tuffs, limestones, shales, sandstones and quartzites of coal, gravel and conglomerates that make alluvial fans and gradient deposits; rhyolite and rhyodacite tuffs of the same limerick, dacite and Lower Tertiary andecita medium; volcanic and pyroclastic spills of andecitic Cretaceous composition; plutonic rocks of bones composition and basic ultra tardily Paleozoic, Cretaceous limestones, conglomerates of igneous and metamorphic songs; sediments within the grade of rivers and streams and sandy sediments, gravel, silt, and orangish.

Hydrology [edit]

El Quelite River, and the Zapote, La Noria, and Los Cocos streams form part of the water resources of the municipality in the southwestern and southeastern slopes; these streams increase its book considerably during the rainy season.

The electric current of the El Quelite River recorded a catchment of 835 square kilometers, where it drained annually for an average of 107 1000000 cubic meters with variations ranging from 78 to 163 million cubic meters. This hydrological electric current passing through the town of Mazatlán touches the towns of El Castillo, Las Juntas, Amapa, Los Naranjos, Milkweed, Modesto Station, and El Recreo. Subsequently traveling a distance of 100 kilometers from its source, information technology discharges into the Pacific Ocean. The El Zapote and Los Cocos streams drain in a southeasterly direction to end at the Presidio River, upwards to the villages from which they take their names.

On the southeast slope of the Sierra del Quelite is the De La Noria stream, and on the northward side of information technology are some tributaries from the El Quelite River. The La Noria stream drains in a southeasterly management of the boondocks of the same name, and finally ends in the Presidio River.

El Zapote stream is formed on the western slope of the Sierra de La Noria, and moves in a southwesterly direction. In passing, it touches the towns of Zapote and El Recreo, and empties into the Pacific Ocean.

On the northern slopes of the Sierra del Salto, most the hamlet of the same proper noun in the country of Durango, the Presidio River moves southeastward and makes a journey of 167 kilometers. Its catchment area is 5,614 square kilometers, with an boilerplate annual expenditure of 900 million cubic meters, a maximum of 2,225 and a minimum of 550 million cubic meters. Populations on its banks are Los Cocos, El Zapote, El Placer, El Tecomate, Copala, El Recodo, Porras, Villa Unión, Alley Ostial, and Alley Rosa.

Declension [edit]

The coasts of the municipality extend over 80 kilometers, and sandy beach sediments are formed in the northwestern flank of the caput of the municipality. There is a substance classified as berms, which is a soft sediment formation. The coast consists of gravel and conglomerates that form alluvial fans and slope deposits.

In the southwestern corner, Huizache Lagoon occupies an area of iv,000 hectares 40.0 square miles). It receives the maritime influence through the Ostial estuary and freshwater diversion channel, and receives h2o from the Presidio River. It received water from Usa also.

The coastline of the municipality is lined with shrimp and modest-scale bit fishing vessels.

Cooperatives are distributed in the estuaries of the Escopama, Salinitas, El Veintinueve, and Estero Uriah Huizache lagoon.

Most of the islands of the municipality are formed past ignimbrites, rhyolitic tuffs and tuffaceous sandstones of altered and deformed light color.

Bird Isle is located between the extreme equatorial coordinates of 106 ° 28'34 " west longitude and 23 ° 15'25" due north breadth; its expanse is well-nigh 0.4 foursquare kilometers, 1.one kilometers long, and maximum and minimum range of 800–650 meters respectively.

Deer Island is located between 106 ° 27'60 " due west longitude and 23 ° 14'03" northward latitude; its approximate length is ane.850 meters, and its width varies betwixt 250 and 700 meters.

Creston Island is located on the western border of the outer bay of Mazatlán, and it has a length of 700 meters and a maximum width of 800 meters. To the northwest, about 3 miles away, small islands like "Southern Blood brother" and "Northern Brother" (the first with 46.three meters in elevation) and Turtle Rock rise 1.5 meters in a higher place sea level at its highest ridge.

Goats Isle is like to Creston's appearance; information technology has a height to a higher place sea level of a little over 50 meters.

Rock Island is the most important part of the municipal coastline; its size is the largest of all considering information technology has thirty square kilometers, and is approximately 14.five miles long by 2.5 wide. Despite its name, Stone Isle is a peninsula that connects to the continent virtually the Mazatlán International Airport.

Climate [edit]

Mazatlán has a tropical savanna climate bordering a hot semi-barren climate, with a marked and rather long dry flavor and an boilerplate annual temperature of 25 °C.

During the summer months, with the humidity gene, temperatures unremarkably experience well above what the thermometer shows.

During the menstruum of 1940–1980, the municipality experienced an average almanac 748 mm of precipitation, with a maximum of 215.iv mm in 24 hours, and 90.4 mm was observed in 1 hour. During the same period the average evaporation rate per year was 2146.80 mm; the prevailing winds are in a northwesterly management at an average speed of 5.0 meters. Thermal sensation in summer is quite marked.

Climate information for Mazatlán (1981–2000)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	November	December	Twelvemonth
Tape high °C (°F)	33.0 (91.4)	35.7 (96.3)	33.0 (91.four)	38.nine (102.0)	33.eight (92.8)	38.1 (100.vi)	37.0 (98.6)	36.0 (96.viii)	39.0 (102.2)	35.4 (95.vii)	35.1 (95.2)	31.4 (88.5)	39.0 (102.2)
Average high °C (°F)	25.iv (77.7)	25.vii (78.3)	26.2 (79.2)	27.8 (82.0)	29.5 (85.1)	32.1 (89.8)	32.8 (91.0)	32.9 (91.2)	32.vii (xc.9)	32.2 (ninety.0)	29.5 (85.1)	26.8 (80.2)	29.5 (85.0)
Daily mean °C (°F)	20.1 (68.2)	20.four (68.7)	21.1 (lxx.0)	22.ix (73.2)	25.4 (77.7)	28.half-dozen (83.5)	29.1 (84.four)	29.1 (84.four)	29.0 (84.two)	27.9 (82.2)	24.5 (76.one)	21.8 (71.2)	25.0 (77.0)
Average low °C (°F)	xiv.ix (58.8)	15.ane (59.2)	xvi.0 (lx.8)	eighteen.i (64.six)	21.3 (70.iii)	25.0 (77.0)	25.5 (77.9)	25.3 (77.five)	25.two (77.4)	23.half dozen (74.5)	nineteen.4 (66.9)	16.7 (62.ane)	20.five (68.9)
Record depression °C (°F)	7.5 (45.5)	9.v (49.i)	ten.four (50.7)	7.nine (46.ii)	12.8 (55.0)	19.0 (66.2)	twenty.4 (68.7)	14.ix (58.viii)	twenty.3 (68.five)	17.8 (64.0)	12.0 (53.6)	9.3 (48.vii)	7.5 (45.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	41.ix (i.65)	8.8 (0.35)	ii.four (0.09)	five.2 (0.xx)	1.9 (0.07)	twenty.6 (0.81)	175.8 (6.92)	230.6 (9.08)	174.1 (6.85)	66.5 (2.62)	46.6 (1.83)	25.nine (1.02)	800.three (31.49)
Average atmospheric precipitation days (≥ 0.i mm)	2.3	1.0	0.five	0.half dozen	0.ane	2.0	10.2	xi.0	ten.5	3.5	2.1	two.two	46
Boilerplate relative humidity (%)	64	61	57	54	55	60	lxx	eighty	82	69	65	67	65
Hateful monthly sunshine hours	215.6	224.8	257.three	255.1	297.0	271.5	223.iv	233.half dozen	215.iii	248.0	241.five	205.vii	2,888.8
Source one: SMN[13]
Source 2: NOAA (sun 1961–1990)[14]

Flora and brute [edit]

Whale watching in Mazatlán.

The flora of Mazatlán are tabachines, eucalyptus, laurels, and poplars. Its fauna includes birds like ducks, herons, and pelicans. There are armadillos, raccoons, and a diverseness of marine species such as whales, dolphins, turtles, and fish. White-tailed deer is one of the main animals that characterizes Mazatlán. Today, in that location are fewer animals and plants than earlier, due to the way humans have inverse the ecosystem.

Mazatlán has several protected areas, one of which is the Protection of Flora and Fauna Expanse (APFF). CACAXTLA Plateau is located between the towns of Mazatlán and San Ignacio in the fundamental part of the state of Sinaloa, and contains a portion of the coastal habitats of the state, and is the largest in Sinaloa. This wealth of habitats favors the presence of 66 species of flora and beast listed in NOM-059-ECOL-2001 and CITES^[fifteen] and 47.5% of endemism reported for Sinaloa, plus charismatic and commercially important species. At the same fourth dimension, the protected expanse is home to a population of seven,964 inhabitants, whose livelihood depends entirely on the extraction of natural resources in this area. The relationship between nature and society in the APFF Cacaxtla Plateau is the focus of this program.

Economy [edit]

Tourism and fishing are the main industries in Mazatlán. The metropolis houses the main beach resorts, and has the second largest fishing fleet in Mexico. The nearly processed seafood products in the urban center are shrimp and tuna. The commencement Mazatlán hotel with a restaurant inside was named Canton La Fonda, and became operational in 1850. It was owned by a Chinese immigrant, Luen-Sing, which called the establishment the Luen-Sing Hotel. In 1864, in that location were 3 hotels and iii restaurants in Mazatlán, with more opening in the late nineteenth century. Today, more than than 20 miles of beaches are the main attraction, and the city contains a large number of hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops. The city is also home to the Pacífico brewery, a coffee manufactory, and two power plants.

Gastronomy [edit]

Main dishes in Mazatlán are heavily influenced by seafood. Food specialties include ceviches, cocktails, zarandeado fish, and aguachile. Other common and prominent foods are smoked marlin and tuna, chilorio, bearded tamales (made with shrimp), Governor tacos, fish crackers and Sinaloa-style grill-roasted chicken.

Dish from an informal restaurant in Mazatlán.

There is also a variety of restaurants offer international cuisine such as Japanese, Italian and Chinese. Fast food, vegetarian, snacks, meats, and a variety of taquerias with their ain specialty foods are also available.

The local cuisine offers a diversity of fresh drinks such every bit horchata, barley, coconut, coconut horchata, Tejuino, wines and a range of beers, of which the best known is the local beer chosen Pacífico, which has its factory in the harbor. Another well-known drink in the region is a vanilla-flavored beverage called "tonicol."

Typical sweets include coconut candies, jamoncillos, and other processed made with coconut marshmallows from the region.

The Malecón of Mazatlán [edit]

The Malecón (boardwalk) of Mazatlán is to exist considered one of the longest in the world. Its length is nigh 8.5 km along the Pacific coast. Forth the Malecón are high cliffs, monuments, roundabouts, historical buildings, hotels, etc. The Malecón is equanimous of a serial of roadways with designated space for pedestrians. The names of these roads vary depending on the phase or time of their construction. From south to north, the roads that compose the Malecón are as follow:

• Calz. Joel Montes Camarena: which connects the lighthouse, which used to be an island, to the rest of the city.
• Paseo del Centenario: starting in the previous street and bordering the west at the lookout loma where cliffs are seen, it was congenital to commemorate the centennial of the Independence of Mexico.
• Paseo Olas Altas: the oldest section of the boardwalk, it was originally a dike to foreclose flooding problems in the 1830s, so information technology became an beach which was used as urban infinite, and eventually it became a recreational space. It was the first part of the metropolis with street lighting, and includes the due south side of icebox hill and sentry hill.
• Paseo Claussen: It was built for the centennial in 1910. It borders the icebox hill and ends at the bay of Puerto Viejo. It was named in honor of George Claussen, who was in command of the Mazatlán Works Bureau and promoted the centennial project.
• Avenida del Mar: This is the most representative and longest section of the boardwalk; it extends along the bay of Puerto Viejo and comprises only over half of all the boardwalk. The panoramic tour ends at the tip, which initiates the Gold Zone (the primary hotel zone), and the avenue changes names twice and continues for several kilometers parallel to the coastline, yet maintains some distance from the coastal hotels.

Mazatlán Aquarium [edit]

Since its opening on September xiii, 1980, Mazatlán Aquarium has been i of the most complete and best of its kind in Latin America, too being the largest in Mexico. According to the institution, "The primary objective is for the public to larn to respect the marine ecosystem that which we depend on, and we foster this through cognition of marine species."

It is divided into two chief areas, the Aquarium and Botanical Garden. The Aquarium contains exhibits for Marine Fish, Jellyfish, Swoop Exhibition, Freshwater Fish, Fishbowl Sharks, an Exhibition Activity chosen Swimming with Sharks, Shark Species, Turtle Species, l different fish species, 2 Striped Rays, and 1 Sparrowhawk. The Museum of the Ocean in the Aquarium houses temporary exhibitions and permanent displays that include shells, snails, and materials relating to the marine ecosystem. The Botanical Garden contains: 1 hectare which consists of 75 tree species from around the world, and regional species of Sinaloa; Bounding main Lions at their ain pond, a Frog Pond property 21 aquaterrariums in which about 13 species and a full of approximately 120 organisms reside, including grass frogs, toads, green tree frogs, eagle rays, and giant Mazatleco toads; an Oceanic Fishbowl with 50 species including lemon sharks, giant grouper fish, olive ridley, hawksbill, rays, snappers, butterfly fish, mackerel, and others; an Aviary with about 13 species of birds that inhabit the Land of Sinaloa such as peacocks, mallards, white pelicans, brown pelicans, quails, pichichin ducks, white wing doves, and others; a Cactus section; plus crocodiles, owls snakes, lizards, ducks, black swans, parrots, ostrich, tigers, coyotes, and foxes.

Mazatlán Lighthouse [edit]

Mazatlán Lighthouse (El Faro).

Mazatlán lighthouse seen upward close.

The Mazatlán lighthouse, chosen El Faro Lighthouse,^[sixteen] is located at the pinnacle of Cerro del Creston, at the southern stop of the peninsular city of Mazatlán. The lighthouse has the distinction of being settled in what was formerly an island, and has a length of 641 meters by 321 meters and a height of 157 meters, making it the highest natural lighthouse in the Americas, and 1 of the highest operating lighthouses in the earth.

In 1821, the Cortes of Cadiz issued a prescript certifying the City of Mazatlán every bit the get-go port of height of the Mexican Pacific. This introduced Mazatlán as a viable destination for international trade. The decree, forth with the rapid growth of big mining and commercial consortia, led to an intensified level of ship traffic. In those days, information technology was not uncommon for over 60 ships from Europe and the Far East, loaded with different types of merchandise, to reach the port each yr. After several days of travel and trading of supplies, these boats would depart Mazatlán loaded with bars of gold and silver from the rich mines of the region.

While the exponential amount of growth in boat traffic into and out of the port undoubtedly benefitted the region, it too presented a problem at dark. At that time there was no manner to betoken to boats in the dark where the marina was located, or how to enter and dock, making it difficult for ships to be authentic, which often led to sailors endangering their boats.

The starting time use of the Isla de Creston as a lighted marine signal was in 1828. The light facilities, located on top of an imposing hill, were very pocket-size, consisting of merely a small rock construction on which fires, fueled by whale oil and wood, or coconut chips, were lit. The fires were fed wood and coal, assuasive them to produce a dim lite that could only be seen within walking altitude, making information technology of little aid to seafarers, peculiarly in bad weather.

El Faro became the respond to the problem. First lit over the Pacific Ocean in 1879, the lighthouse'south original lamp was constructed in Paris. It was made of an oil lamp surrounded by mirrors, and a Fresnel lens to focus the light.^[16] This allowed El Faro's light to be seen from a much further distance, and thus give improve navigation services, leading to approaches made with greater precision.

In 1905, the lamp was converted to hydrogen gas, and was made to be able to revolve in a full circle. The final update of the calorie-free source came in 1933, when it was converted to electricity, which is what is nevertheless there today. In order to emit its powerful light, El Faro uses a 1,000 watt bulb, which is focused by a Fresnel lens.

It is at present one of the top tourist attractions in the city of Mazatlan, and people tin can hike upward to run across it up close. The view from the lighthouse is too a big draw for visitors.

Banda Sinaloense [edit]

Banda Sinaloense or Tambora is a blazon of musical ensemble, likewise as a traditional and popular musical genre, which was established in the early on twenties in the state of Sinaloa, in the northwestern region of Mexico. It originates in the European Fanfare mode, however, like many other traditional Mexican ensembles, Banda Sinaloense groups perform a variety of musical forms, and their repertoire covers various traditional styles such equally rancheras, corridos, polkas, waltzes, mazurkas, and chotis, all tailored to the sensitivity of the inhabitants of this Mexican region: music also every bit romantic ballads such equally Cumbia.

Example of a Sinaloa band in the early on 1900s.

The unique audio of the Sinaloa band is very similar to High german and French current of air instrument bands, though there are differences in styles betwixt north-central and southern parts of the country. In the north-central expanse, the musical phrasing is lighter and nuanced, more similar to Western European styles, and in the due south, the style has a very strong phrasing and a footling less nuanced operation, more than influenced by the Bavarian German language style. Several researchers, have located the origin of these styles to these regions, particularly considering foreign interventions in the state and in Mazatlán early in the century, which was inhabited mostly past German immigrants. However, the Swiss ethnomusicologist Helena Simonett explains that the start Sinaloense bands were formed by people who deserted the military and municipal bands, and went to live in mountain villages, adding credence to the Sinaloa founders with the rhythmic influence of Mayo-Yoreme, which have contributed to its essence. Nevertheless, at that place is an historic understanding which dates the musical influence before the Mazatlán High german trade boom (1870-1890), equally it would pb not just to distribution of instruments through marketing, merely besides required a cultural disclosure that could only happen in a close relationship between the carriers of such traditions and the people of the region, and this circumstance merely occurred in Mazatlán. That is why the theory of French and Castilian influence on the German influence in other regions of Sinaloa is reinforced as the development of the music of the Sinaloan drum has records and previous history in distant places in the mountains of Sinaloa where there was no German influence. However, mail service-war French influence intervention and Spanish cultural remnants are present. There is also bear witness of the formation of the first organological Mazatlán clusters likewise as other parts of Sinaloa, for instance: La Banda El Recodo de Don. Cruz Lizarraga in 1938, which had a strong High german influence in its playing way, and included stringed instruments, in contrast with La Banda Los Tacuichamona (1888), La Banda Los Sirolas Culiacan (1920) and The Band of Brothers Rubio (1929) Mocorito, which were exclusively wind instruments and percussion akin to the Galo-Ibérico fanfare style.

Primary beaches [edit]

• Olas Altas: the beach with greatest historical reference to Mazatlán, it is located in the southern part of the urban center, a few meters from downtown. In the department of the boardwalk that passes through Olas Altas one tin can see various monuments such as The Shield, which contains the shields of Sinaloa and Mazatlán; The Deer, a statue of a deer representing the etymology of the city'south proper name; Monument to Pedro Infante; Monument to the Continuity of Life; Monument to Mazatleca Women, and too the restaurant "Puerto Viejo".^{[ citation needed ]}

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  Monument to Mazatleca women

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  Monument to the Continuity of Life

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  Coat of Sinaloa in Olas Altas

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  Playa

• Norte Beach: It is located along the northwest border of the commercial downtown district. Here one tin can observe the Monument to Fishermen; the Monument to Pulmonias, and the Monument to the hometown Pacific Brewery. The second of these refers to the characteristic taxis of this metropolis.
• Sábalo Beach: the long stretch of beach along Camaron Sabalo and Malecon from the Fishermen's Monument to the marina jetty.
• Cerritos Beach: It starts at the archway to the "new" marina and the end of the Golden Zone (hotel commune) and runs north to Cerritos signal, a rocky landform just earlier the Emerald Bay resort.
• Isla de la Piedra Beach: A miles-long Located in the southern function of the city on the peninsula that is separated from the old urban center by the entrance to the main commercial harbor; only accessible past auto on a recently paved route from just off the aerodrome access road, or, past small passenger ferries that provide regular service from the docks at the edge of the historic centre.

Tourism and civilization [edit]

Historic Center [edit]

The Celebrated Center of Mazatlán, among whose onetime inhabitants are French, German, Chinese, Italian, Spanish and Americans (many contemporary inhabitants of Mazatlán are descended from these), was named Heritage of the Nation on March 12, 2001. A civil clan composed of a group of Mazatlán locals have managed to revive this surface area, along with the support of diverse organizations, companies, and government authorities. Among the buildings and areas of loftier cultural value are the Plazuela Machado, the Angela Peralta Theater, the onetime Hotel Iturbide (today the Municipal Arts Centre), Mansion of Redo, Melchers Firm, Business firm of Retes, Corvera Edifice, Bank of London and Mexico Building, Haas House, Temple of San José, and various others.^[17]

Culture and art [edit]

Mazatlán hosts several events annually, the most important being the International Carnival of Mazatlán, which was 114 years old in 2012.^[xviii] Other important events are the Mazatlán Cultural Festival and the José Limón International Dance Festival,^{[nineteen] [20]} celebrated every yr in the winter and bound, respectively. There is also the Book Off-white and Arts of Mazatlán (Feliart) and Mazatlán Volume Off-white (FELIMAZ).^{[21] [22]}

Another of import event is the International Motorbike Week, which attracts thousands of motorcyclists from around the country as well as from abroad, and is held each year during Easter calendar week.^[23]

In sports, Mazatlán is abode to the Pacific International Triathlon held in April, and the Pacific International Marathon, which is held every year in belatedly Nov and early Dec, and is attended by athletes from effectually the world.^[24]

In 2012, Mazatlán was called equally the host urban center for the tenth installment of Premios Oye!, prizes awarded past the National Academy of Music in Mexico, and the Volleyball Olympic qualifiers for the Olympic Games in London 2012.^[25]

Mazatlán Funfair [edit]

Late February/Early March. This is currently one of the nigh important carnivals in Mexico, since the commencement parade on Sun brings together more than 600,000 people for over iii hours in the littoral area of the city on the "Avenida del Mar." A novelty that allows tourists to come from all over the globe to witness this festival is called "Called-for of humor" where tradition says to burn a character (Monigote) representing someone who people recall has done a misdeed, which unremarkably means politicians, presidents, or as in 2013, "influenza" was burned. Both of these accept negatively afflicted the country'south paradigm in recent years. This is followed by the famous "Naval Combat," depicting the boxing that took identify confronting French vessels seeking to land at the port.

A very representative element of this funfair are the great "Monigotes" that are placed in important areas of the urban center as decorations. These are behemothic figures made of paper mache are supported by big structures. The primal events of the funfair are the crowning of the queen of the carnival, and this is a massive event held with a selection of world-class artists. Two parades are scheduled, one on Sunday and another on Mardi Gras (to close the celebration). Superbly decorated and colorful floats line a adept part of the coastal walk, with an estimated several hundred g spectators in omnipresence. These include majestic courts, ambassadors from around the land and abroad, special guests such equally athletes, Television receiver entertainers, and various showbusiness personalities, not to mention hundreds of Mazatlecos of all ages and social atmospheric condition.

The Mazatlán Funfair is distinguished from other carnivals for its distinctive accompaniment by Banda Sinaloa music that has transcended the world through what is today called "la onda grupera." Events includes cultural activities (poesy contests, literature prizes, and shows of enormous creative quality), with which the political party extends to all sectors of the population and covers a range of local and tourist tastes.

La Isla de la Piedra [edit]

La Isla de la Piedra, chosen Rock Isle was built-in in 1936 and is located in the northeast nigh 20 km from Mazatlán.^[26] Stone Isle is known throughout United mexican states for its long sandy beaches, Mexico'south third largest coconut grove followed by the length of the southern beach which seems to disappears in the^[27] horizon. The principal source of work for the residents of the island is angling and transportation, as they bring many tourist and locals to the island from Mazatlán due to its popularity. To get to the island, it is possible to go by ferry, h2o taxi or drive by the xv United mexican states-Nogales road. Activities on the island include boat excursions, swimming, beach activities, and horseback riding.^{[ citation needed ]}

Sports [edit]

Baseball is popular among Mazatlecos. The representative squad, chosen Venados de Mazatlán, is office of the Mexican Pacific League. The league's season begins in mid-October and ends in late December. Playoffs are in January of every year, and from the eight teams that make up the league, one becomes the representative of Mexico in the Caribbean area Serial.

In Basketball the representative squad, called Venados de Mazatlán, is part of the CIBACOPA. The league flavour is played from the final days of March and ends until the first days of June, while the playoffs begin in mid-June and finish the first days of July.

Another sport that has been practiced for over 25 years is soccer, with major achievements both statewide and nationally. On June 2, 2020, information technology was announced that Liga MX club Monarcas Morelia would exist relocating to a new state of the art football stadium in Mazatlán in time for the league's 2020–21 season,^[28] with rumors that the team would be renamed either Delfines de Mazatlán (Dolphins of Mazatlán) or Mazatlán F.C.^[29]

Mazatlán is a major sporting middle of the state, with of import sporting activities such as the marathon and triathlon, in which not but local but also foreign athletes participate.

1 of the initial cricket teams in Mazatlán were the Mazatlán Redskins. They now play American football, soccer, and volleyball.

Transportation [edit]

The Full general Rafael Buelna International Airport (IATA Lawmaking: MZT) has daily domestic flights and international flights to the United States and Canada.

Past land, Mazatlán is continued to the n (Culiacan) and south (Tepic) and to Guadalajara via highway xv and the corresponding Federal Highway 15D. To the due east, information technology is continued to Durango by Highway twoscore and the corresponding Federal Highway 40D.

Ferries make the daily journeying to La Paz, Baja California Sur, while a varied number of cruise ships visit the port every week from the United states.

Durango-Mazatlán highway [edit]

The Durango-Mazatlán highway is a highway that link the cities of Mazatlán and Durango, crossing the Sierra Madre Occidental.

With an investment of over 28 billion pesos, the Durango-Mazatlán highway is one of the boldest projects in Mexico.

Key Features

• 230 km in length
• 63 tunnels
• 115 bridges including the Baluarte Bridge
• Two-lane and four-lane sections
• Initial estimated price for the work was iii.5 billion pesos, with a final estimate of 28.vi billion pesos
• Generating 4,500 directly jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs
• Stretch of 7.7 km of 4 lanes (including the Baluarte Bridge)

Main sections

• "The Sinaloa" tunnel, measuring 2,794 meters
• Baluarte span with a centre span of 520 meters and a total length of 1,124 meters
• Span Parlors

Time reduction of 6–8 hours to three hours.

Pulmonias are a common form of transportation in Mazatlán. These golf game cart-like taxis are a grade of transportation created in Mazatlán.^{[ citation needed ]}

Political state of affairs [edit]

In the municipality of Mazatlán, there exist 2 electoral preferences. While the inhabitants of the receiverships, police stations, and other villages in the municipality proceed voting traditionally for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), this phenomenon is changing inside the city.

Mazatlán has traditionally been governed past municipal leaders from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. During the municipal elections of 1989, Rice Humberto García (1990-1992) won the municipal presidency every bit a candidate for the National Activeness Party (PAN). However, the Institutional Revolutionary Party regained the municipality during the elections of 1992, when Martin Gavica Garduño (1993-1995) won the leadership. Alejandro Camacho Mendoza reclaimed the municipality for his political party, PAN, for the 1996-1998 period, and Alejandro Higuera Osuna held it for the 1999–2001 term.

In the 2002-2004 elections, both the National Action Party and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) were defeated by the Labour Political party candidate, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Pasos. Nonetheless, a few months after taking the adjuration of mayor, Rodriguez Pasos was deposed by the State Congress after being charged for domestic violence, in which his own wife defendant him. His place was taken by Gerardo Ramirez Rosete, from the same political party. Shortly thereafter, in a motion seen every bit a ruse of the PRI state regime, he was replaced past Ricardo Ramírez González, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

In the 2005-2007 elections, Alejandro Higuera Osuna from PAN won the municipal presidency and held it until June 2007, when he resigned to contest the election for local deputy; on the 12th of that calendar month, he was replaced past Isaac Lopez Arregui.

In the 2008-2010 elections, the Institutional Revolutionary Party regained the town with its candidate Jorge Abel Lopez Sanchez.

Since April 2010, the boondocks of Mazatlán has been ruled past both the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Activity Party, since the last mayoral election was won past PRI member Jorge Abel Lopez Sanchez, who defeated a former PAN and Petetista government (PT). That was the last time that Mazatlán has had a PRI government.

In July 2010, in the ballot for Governor, Local, and Municipal Presidents' Deputies, the first loss occurred for the PRI governor of Sinaloa. Mario López Valdez, erstwhile Sinaloa Senator and member of the PRI, was defeated. This concluded the PRI hegemony in the state of Sinaloa. Another important event was the third choice Alejandro Higuera Osuna from PAN, who won the municipal presidency of Mazatlán. In addition, the PAN won a celebrated vote statewide.

Educational institutions [edit]

French explorer Duflot de Mofras notes that past the 1840s, foreign traders based in Mazatlán impelled the opening of the first public school in the urban center. Still, in 1872, there were but two primary schools. In 1873, the Liceo Rosales, which over fourth dimension would become the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, was founded.

Currently in Mazatlán at that place are preschools, uncomplicated, eye, high schools, colleges, and faculties of both public and private institutions. Of those, the master ones are the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mazatlán Institute of Engineering science, the University of the W, the Polytechnic University of Sinaloa and Nautical School of Mazatlán. Of these universities, just the Democratic University of Sinaloa is public. Those belonging to the individual sector, in addition to those mentioned above, likewise include TecMilenio University, Autonomous Academy of Durango, and Sinaloa Superior Institute of Technology.

The National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, has a presence in the city with an academic unit specializing in marine sciences and the Eye for Nutrient Research and Evolution.

In popular culture [edit]

American funk band War released a song entitled "In Mazatlan" as function of their 1975 album "Why can't we be friends"

Mexican singer/songwriter Calibre50 released a song entitled Culiacán Vs. Mazatlán in 2018

Notable people [edit]

• Pedro Infante, Actor and Singer. Winner of a Golden Deport.
• Claudia Mijangos, convicted murderer known as "the Hyena of Queretaro" who killed her 3 children.
• Jorge Orta, former designated hitter and right fielder for the Chicago White Sox and Kansas Metropolis Royals.
• Enedina Arellano Félix, Mexican drug lord, electric current leader of Tijuana Cartel, younger sister of Benjamín Arellano Félix and older sister of Ramón Arellano Félix

Pictures [edit]

• Mazatlán

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  Easter Sunset

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  Easter Sunset at Playa Mazatlán

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  Sunset at the El Pescador Playa Norte monument

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  Main entrance to the Hotel Playa Mazatlán

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  Church El Centro Mazatlán

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  Isla de la Piedra

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  Pulmonia

Sister cities [edit]

• Hamm, Federal republic of germany
• Santa Monica, U.s.
• Seattle, United States
• San Ysidro, Usa
• Tucson, Usa
• Puntarenas, Republic of costa rica
• Grande Prairie, Canada
• Ensenada, Mexico
• Tijuana, Mexico
• Pico Rivera, Usa

Encounter also [edit]

• Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Formulation, Mazatlán
• Claudia Mijangos
• Las Labradas

References [edit]

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Additional sources [edit]

• (in Spanish) Link to tables of population information from Census of 2005, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)
• (in Castilian) Sinaloa Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mazatlán.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Mazatlan .

• Mazatlán at Curlie
• Instituto de Cultura
• Carnaval of Mazatlán
• Urban center of Mazatlán

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