Sinaloa de Leyva () is a town in the
Mexican state
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Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is d ...
.
Its geographical location is .
The town was founded on 30 April 1583 as Villa de San Felipe y Santiago de Sinaloa by Don Pedro de Montoya. In 1585 the second foundation of the town was carried out by Antonio Ruiz, Bartolomé de Mondragón, Tomás de Soberanes, Juan Martínez del Castillo y Juan Caballero. By 1590, Ruiz was its mayor, and the town was home to nine people who eked out a living, but the situation improved through their discovery of the mines of Chínipas, and the arrival of the
Jesuits
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in 1591. At the end of the sixteenth century, Ruiz wrote an autobiography where he detailed the early history of San Felipe y Santiago, and Sinaloa.
This was the base for Diego de Hurdaide's subjugation of the
Sinaloas,
Tehuecos,
Ahomes and
Zuaques and the extension of Spanish control over the Fuerte River valley, and thus to the northern edge of modern Sinaloa.
[Edward H. Spicer, ''Cycles of Conquest'' (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962), p. 46-47]
Sinaloa serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality ''(
municipio
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)'' of
Sinaloa, Sinaloa. The municipality reported 88,282 inhabitants in the 2010
census
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. It is a former capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
References
External links
* http://www.sinaloa.gob.mx/conociendo/municipios/sinaloa.htm
Populated places established in 1583
Populated places in Sinaloa
1583 establishments in the Spanish Empire
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