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Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales. It is located in northwest Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ... to the northwest, Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua to the north and Durango to the east, both across the Sierra Madre Occidental; and Nayarit to the southeast. To the west, Sinaloa faces Baja California Sur, across the Gulf of California. The state covers an area of and includes the islands of Palmito Verde, Palmito de la Virgen, Altamura, Santa María, Saliaca, Macapule, and San Ignacio. In addition to the capital city, the state's important cities inc ...
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Culiacán
Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is a city in northwestern Mexico, the capital and largest city of both Culiacán Municipality and the state of Sinaloa. The city was founded on 29 September 1531 by the Spanish conquistadors Lázaro de Cebreros and Nuño de Guzmán, Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán under the name "Villa de San Miguel", referring to its patron saint, Michael the Archangel. As of the 2020 National Institute of Statistics and Geography, INEGI census, Culiacán had an estimated population of 808,416, making it the List of cities in Mexico, 21st most populous city in Mexico. Its metropolitan area, with a population of 1,003,530, was the Metropolitan areas of Mexico, 17th most populous metropolitan area in Mexico. The city is in a valley on the slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental, at the confluence of the Tamazula River, Tamazula and Humaya River, Humaya Rivers, where both join to form the Culiacán River 55 m above sea level. Etymology The genuine Aztecs, Azte ...
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Municipalities Of Sinaloa
Sinaloa is a Administrative divisions of Mexico#States, state in northwest Mexico that is divided into 19 municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. According to the 2020 Censo General de Población y Vivienda, Mexican Census, it is the States of Mexico, seventeenth most populated state with inhabitants and the States of Mexico, eighteenth largest by land area spanning . Municipalities in Sinaloa have some administrative autonomy from the state according to the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president () by a plurality voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (''ayuntamiento'') responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The municipal council consists of a variable number of trustees and councillors (''regidores y síndicos''). Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewerage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, and the main ...
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III Federal Electoral District Of Sinaloa
The 3rd federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of Sinaloa. It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region. The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Jesús Fernando García Hernández of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). District territory Under the National Electoral Institute's 2022 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the third district is located in the north-central region of the state and covers 773 electoral precincts () across six municipalities: * Angostura, Badiraguato, Mo ...
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I Federal Electoral District Of Sinaloa
The 1st federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of Sinaloa. It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region. The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Graciela Domínguez Nava of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). District territory Under the National Electoral Institute's 2022 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the first district covers 468 electoral precincts () across four municipalities in the extreme south of the state: * Concordia, Escuinapa and Rosario in their entirety, and 27 ...
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Rubén Rocha Moya
Rubén Rocha Moya (born 15 June 1949) is a Mexican politician and educator who has served as the Governor of Sinaloa since 2021. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Rocha previously served in the Senate of Mexico from 2018 to 2021. Rocha was previously the rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (UAS) in the 1990s and a former state deputy and gubernatorial candidate. Early life Rocha Moya was born in Batequitas, a locality in Badiraguato, as one of six children and obtained his degree as a mathematics teacher from the Escuela Normal Superior de Oaxaca. However, it was his time at a rural teacher's school in Sonora that would introduce him to left-wing thought; he rose through the ranks and served as the secretary general of the Federation of Rural Socialist Students from 1968 to 1969. In his first job, as a teacher in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Rocha joined the Mexican Communist Party. In 1972, Rocha returned to his home state and became a physics a ...
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IV Federal Electoral District Of Sinaloa
The 4th federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of Sinaloa. It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region. The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Felicita Pompa Robles of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). District territory Under the National Electoral Institute's 2022 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the fourth district is located in the north of the state and covers 677 electoral precincts () across three municipalities: * Choix, El Fuerte and Guasave. The head town (), wher ...
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