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Mexico Travel :: State of Sinaloa

The state of Sinaloa was the home of the Culture of Aztatlan until about AD 900. Centered in Culiacan and Guasave, the Aztatlan peoples built ceremonial centers with raised platforms, pyramids and ball courts. Their dead were buried with offerings of ceramic figures placed in large funerary urns. At the time of the Conquest, Sinaloa was occupied by eight less-developed tribes, including the Mayos, the Guasaves and the Chichimecs in the sierra. Nufio Beltran de Guzman invaded the region in 1530 and founded his capital in Culiacan. Large-scale Spanish settlement began at the end of the 16th century, with the discovery of mines in the sierra. During the 19th century, Sinaloa's principal port, Mazatlan, was the site of many battles. In 1847, the United States blockaded and then captured the town; Juarez' liberals defeated the conservatives here in 1859; the French bombarded and captured Mazatlan in 1864; and in 1914, the revolutionary army defeated Huerta's forces here after a long siege. During World War II, the Japanese cut the supply of opium and its derivatives, like morphine, from the Orient, and Sinaloa leaped into the breach. Large fields of opium poppies were planted for both legal and illegal use. Since then the culture of drug smuggling has thrived, particularly in Culiacan. Today, Sinaloa is also an important producer of many legal crops, like sugar cane.

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