Guamúchil Sinaloa

Sinaloa

Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

, is a city in northern Mexico

Mexico

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 100 km north of Culiacán

Culiacán

Culiacán is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiacán. With 675,773 inhabitants in the city , and 858,638 in the municipality, it is the largest city in the state of Sinaloa...

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The city serves as municipal seat of the municipality

Municipalities of Mexico

Municipalities are the second-level administrative division in Mexico . There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico, making the average municipality population 45,616...

 of Salvador Alvarado

Salvador Alvarado

Salvador Alvarado is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It stands at.The municipality reported 76,537 inhabitants in the 2005 census and has an areal extent of 1,197.5 km² . Its municipal seat is the city of Guamúchil...

. At the census of 2005 the city had an official population of 61,862 inhabitants. It is the fifth-largest community in the state in population (after Culiacán

Culiacán

Culiacán is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiacán. With 675,773 inhabitants in the city , and 858,638 in the municipality, it is the largest city in the state of Sinaloa...

, Mazatlán

Mazatlán

Mazatlán is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa; the surrounding municipio for which the city serves as the municipal seat is Mazatlán Municipality. It is located at on the Pacific coast, across from the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula.Mazatlán is a Nahuatl word meaning...

, Los Mochis

Los Mochis

Los Mochis is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2010 census, the population was 256,613, which was 61 percent of the municipality's population....

, and Guasave

Guasave

Guasave is a city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It is located in the northwestern part of the state, southeast of the city of Los Mochis. It stands at ....

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Municipal logo

The municipal logo

Logo

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 consists of:

1. Left top: the Mochomo mountain and the Evora River referring to its region
2. Left bottom: the primary elements used in commerce relating to politics, social and cultural life
3. Right top: the pacific railroad track that initiated the communication for progress in that area
4. Right bottom: the chickpea as the main product in the region along with cheese and wool.
5. Center: a man with open arms towards progress.

Overall Guamúchil has been one of the cities that generates the greatest progress to the state.

Notable people

Guamúchil was the hometown of singer and actor Pedro Infante

Pedro Infante

José Pedro Infante Cruz , better known as Pedro Infante, is the most famous actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and is an idol of the Latinamerican people, together with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís, who were styled the Tres Gallos Mexicanos . He was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa,...

, birthplace of Mexican singer Ana Gabriel

Ana Gabriel

Ana Gabriel is a Mexican singer and composer.Ana Gabriel was born as María Guadalupe Araujo Yong, in Santiago de Comanito, Sinaloa, Mexico. She first sang on the stage at age six, singing "Regalo A Dios" by José Alfredo Jiménez. She moved to Tijuana, Baja California and studied accounting...

, and Miss México World 2009 Perla Beltrán.

External links

• Municipio de Salvador Alvarado Official website of Municipality of Salvador Alvarado

• Page Of The City Unofficial website of Municipality of Salvador Alvarado