Mocorito, Sinaloa
| Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico | ||
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| Nickname(s): Macuri | ||
 Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico
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| Coordinates: 24°58′41″N 107°31′25″W / 24.97806°N 107.52361°WCoordinates: 24°58′41″N 107°31′25″W / 24.97806°N 107.52361°W | ||
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| State | Sinaloa | |
| Municipality | Mocorito | |
| Founded in | 1594 | |
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| • Municipal president | Jose Eleno Quñones López i .svg){kind=logo} PRI
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| Area4.4% | ||
| • Land | 2,566 km2 (991 sq mi) | |
| Population (2015) | ||
| • Total | 5,426 | |
| Time zone | Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7) | |
| • Summer (DST) | Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6) | |
| Website | Mocorito Government page | |
Mocorito (meaning "place of the dead") is a small city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It stands at 24°58′41″N 107°31′25″W / 24.97806°N 107.52361°W.
The city reported 5,426 inhabitants in the 2010 census.
In 1531 with the entry of the conqueror Nuño de Guzmán to northwest Mexico and the founding of the town of San Miguel de Navito, the geographical boundaries of the province of Culiacan started, subject to the governorship of New Galicia. In 1532, Sebastián de Évora reaches the valley Mocorito and called his name, the people and the river, leaving as encomendero dependent as mayor of the province of Culiacan, from that year was defined between the river towards Évora North and Elota River in the south. In 1594 the Mission Mocorito by the Jesuits Juan Bautista Hernando de Velasco and Santarán is founded.In 1732 when the Spanish arrived expansion beyond the Yaqui River, lays the territory divided into provinces. In this year rank first Sonora and Sinaloa to form a single governorship with head in the town of San Felipe and Santiago de Sinaloa, Sinaloa de Leyva today. In Sinaloa territory remained the internal division 3 provinces: Sinaloa, Culiacan, and Chametla, whose boundaries were May River north and south of Reeds. In 1749 the territory is divided into 5 provinces, and although apparently Mocorito came under the jurisdiction of the province of Culiacan in the ratio of "The Villages, Villas, places Indians and Royals Minas" stating their jurisdictions made in that time, appears within the jurisdiction of Culiacan, the peoples of Capirato, Comanito and Palos Blancos; and within the jurisdiction of Sinaloa, Mocorito mission and the people of San Benito. In 1813 the Constitution of Cadiz enters into force; Article 310 provides for the installation of municipalities in populations that had more than 1,000 inhabitants. In 1814, Fernando VII repeals the constitution but reinstalls it during 1820. From the moment the first municipalities in Sinaloa are installed. The creation of the internal state of the West in 1824 uniting the provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa, and the internal division of the state into five departments with their respective parties, does not alter the internal situation of Sinaloa territory in regard to Mocorito, since the Culiacán department is formed with the game of his name and Cosalá, comprising Mocorito region within the same, within the limits of the river its name to the river Elota.
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