Sinaloa
—  State  —
Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa
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State of Sinaloa within Mexico
Coordinates: 25°0′10″N 107°30′10″W / 25.00278°N 107.50278°W / 25.00278; -107.50278Coordinates: 25°0′10″N 107°30′10″W / 25.00278°N 107.50278°W / 25.00278; -107.50278
Country	Mexico
Capital	Culiacán Rosales
Largest City	Culiacán Rosales
Municipalities	18
Admission	October 14, 1830[1]
Order	20th
Government
• Governor	Mario López Valdez
• Senators[2]	Francisco Labastida Margarita Villaescusa (I) María Serrano
• Deputies[3]	Federal Deputies • Rolando Bojórquez • Germán Contreras • Miguel Ángel García • Hadamira Gastélum • Aarón Irízar López • Óscar Javier Lara • Óscar Lara Salazar • Óscar Levin Coppel • Alfredo Villegas • Rolando Zubia Rivera • Manuel Clouthier • Eduardo Robles Medina • Adolfo Rojo Montoya • Herón Escobar García
Area[4]
• Total	57,377 km2 (22,153 sq mi)
	Ranked 18th
Highest elevation[5]	2,520 m (8,270 ft)
Population (2010)[6]
• Total	2,767,761
• Rank	15th
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
• Density rank	18th
Demonym	Sinaloense
Time zone	MST (UTC−7)
• Summer (DST)	MDT (UTC−6)
Postal code	80-82
Area code	Area codes • 667 • 668 • 669 • 672 • 673 • 687 • 694 • 695 • 696 • 697 • 698
ISO 3166 code	MX-SIN
HDI	0.842 high Ranked 13th
GDP	US$ 13,749,376.25 th[a]
Website	Official Web Site
^ a. The state's GDP was $175,992,016 thousand of pesos in 2008,[6] amount corresponding to $13,749,376.25 thousand of dollars, being a dollar worth 12.80 pesos (value of June 3, 2010).[7]

Sinaloa (Spanish pronunciation: [sinaˈloa]), officially Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa (Spanish: 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.

It is located in Northwestern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Sonora to the north, Chihuahua and Durango to the east (separated from them by the Sierra Madre Occidental) and Nayarit to the south. To the west, Sinaloa has a significant share of coastline on the Gulf of California.

The state covers an area of 57,377 square kilometers (22,153 sq mi), 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 include Mazatlán and Los Mochis.

History[link]

Prior to the coming of the Spaniards, much of Sinaloa was inhabited by the Cáhita.

In 1531 Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán with a force of over 10,000 defeated a force of 30,000 Cáhita at the site of Culiacan. Beltran de Guzman established a Spanish and allied Indian outpost at Culiacan. Over the next decade, the Cáhita suffered severe depopulation from smallpox and other diseases the Spanish brought.

The Spanish organized Sinaloa as part of the gobierno of Nueva Galicia. In 1564, the area was realigned, with the area of Culiacan and Cosala remainind in the control of Nueva Galicia, while the areas to the north, south and west were put in the newly formed Nueva Vizcaya, making the Culiacan area an exclave of Nueva Galicia. The first capital of Nueva Vizcaya was located in San Sebastian, Sinaloa, near Copala, but the capital moved to Durango, Durango in 1583.^[8]

Starting in 1599, Jesuit missionaries spread out from a base at what is now Sinaloa de Leyva, and by 1610, the Spanish influence had been extended to the northern edge of Sinaloa. In 1601, the Jesuits' movement into the eastern part of Sinaloa lead to the Acaxee going to war. The Spanish eventually managed to reassert authority in the Sierra Madre and executed 48 Acaxee leaders.^[9]

After Mexican independence, Sinaloa was joined with Senora as Occidente State, but it became a separate state in 1830.

Geography and environment[link]

The coastal plain is a narrow strip of land that stretches along the length of the state and lies between the ocean and the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental Range, which dominates the eastern part of the state. Sinaloa is traversed by many rivers, which carve broad valleys into the foothills. The largest of these rivers are the Culiacán, Fuerte, and Sinaloa.

Sinaloa has a warm climate on the coastal side, moderately warm in the valleys and foothills, moderately cold in the lower mountains and cold in the higher elevations. Its weather characteristics vary from subtropical, found on the plains, to cold in the nearby mountains. Temperatures range from 22 °C (72 °F) to 43 °C (109 °F) with rains during the summer.

Numerous species of plants and animals are found within Sinaloa. Notable among the tree species is the elephant tree, Bursera microphylla.^[10]

Culture[link]

Culturally, it is known for a style of music known as banda, and corrido is also popular. It is the only place in the continent where the ancient ball game of Mesoamerica is still played, in a handful of small, rural communities not far from Mazatlán. The ritual ball game was central in the society, religion and cosmology of all the great Mesoamerican cultures including the Mixtecs, Aztecs, and Maya.

A Ulama player in Sinaloa.

The Sinaloa version of the ball game is called ulama, and is very similar to the original.^[11] There are efforts to avoid the extinction of this 3500-year old unique tradition by supporting the communities and children who still play it.^[12]

Demography[link]

According to the 2010 census, Sinaloa is home to 2,767,761^[6] inhabitants, 61% of which reside in the capital city of Culiacán and the municipalities of Mazatlán and Ahome. It is a young state in terms of population, 56% of which is younger than 30 years.

Other demographic particulars report 87% of the state following the Catholic faith; 1% of those over five years of age speaking an indigenous dialect together with the Spanish language; the main indigenous ethnic groups still residing in the state are the Mixtecs and Maya, followed by the Nahuatl and the Zapotecs. Life expectancy in the state follows the national tendency of higher rates for women than men, a difference of almost five years in the case of Sinaloa, at 72.5 and 77.4 years respectively.

In ethnic composition, Sinaloa received large historic waves of immigration from Europe, the Americas and Asia (mainly China, Japan and the Philippines during Spanish and later American rule), and retirees from the U.S. and Canada. Coastal towns and communities have some persons of British–Irish, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Russian ancestry. There was also a sizable influx of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.

Education[link]

In terms of education, average schooling reaches 8.5 years; 7% of those over 15 years of age are illiterate, and 5% of children under 14 years of age do not attend school.^{[citation needed]}

Institutions of higher education include Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Sinaloa, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Mazatlán and Universidad Casa Blanca.

Municipalities[link]

Sinaloa is subdivided into 18 municipios (municipalities) See Municipalities of Sinaloa

The state's major cities include the capital Culiacán, Mazatlán, a tourist resort, and Los Mochis, an agricultural center.

Economy[link]

Tamazula River in Culiacán, Sinaloa

The main productive activities of Sinaloa are agriculture, fishing, livestock breeding, commerce and industry. The products obtained from these activities are used for both local and national consumption. Agriculture produces tomatoes, beans, corn, wheat, sorghum, potatoes, soybeans, sugarcane and squash. Sinaloa is the most prominent state in Mexico in terms of agriculture, and additionally has the second largest fishing fleet. Livestock produces meat, sausages, cheese and milk also sour creme. Cannabis and Opium are also cultivated in high quantities in this region.

Government and politics[link]

The current governor of Sinaloa is CPA Mario López Valdéz (aka Malova) (PAN), elected for the period 2011–2016. The state is represented in Mexico City by three Senators in the upper house of Mexican Congress: Francisco Labastida Ochoa (PRI), Margarita Villaescusa (Independent) and María Serrano (PAN). It also has fourteen federal deputies in the lower house.

Notable natives and residents[link]

See also[link]

	Geography portal
	North America portal
	Latin America portal
	Mexico portal

• Sinaloa Cartel

Notes[link]

References[link]

• C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
• Asociacion de Gestores del Patrimonio Historico y Cultural de Mazatlán. 2009. The Mesoamerican Ballgame-Ulama

External links[link]

• (Spanish) Sinaloa state government
• The History of Indigenous Sinaloa
• PBS Frontline: The place Mexico's drug kingpins call home

v t e  State of Sinaloa Culiacán (capital) Municipalities and (municipal seats) Ahome (Los Mochis) Angostura (Angostura) Badiraguato (Badiraguato) Choix (Choix) Concordia (Concordia) Cosalá (Cosalá) Culiacán (Culiacán) El Fuerte (El Fuerte) Elota (La Cruz) Escuinapa (Escuinapa) Guasave (Guasave) Mazatlán (Mazatlán) Mocorito (Mocorito) Navolato (Navolato) Rosario (Rosario) Salvador Alvarado (Guamúchil) San Ignacio (San Ignacio) Sinaloa (Sinaloa de Leyva)

v t e States of Mexico States Aguascalientes Baja California Baja California Sur Campeche Chiapas Chihuahua Coahuila Colima Durango Guanajuato Guerrero Hidalgo Jalisco México Michoacán Morelos Nayarit Nuevo León Oaxaca Puebla Querétaro Quintana Roo San Luis Potosí Sinaloa Sonora Tabasco Tamaulipas Tlaxcala Veracruz Yucatán Zacatecas Federal District Mexico City

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Lorena Herrera
Born	Lorena Herrera de la Vega (1967-02-18) February 18, 1967 (age 45) Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico

Lorena Herrera (born Lorena Maritza Herrera de la Vega February 18, 1967 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa) is a Mexican actress.

Biography[link]

Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became highly successful in Mexico, and gained an international reputation, posing for advertiments in Mexico and South America. Despite this, few among the general public knew her name. As a model, she won the "Look of the Year" contest, awarded in Mexico.

Lorena then began working in Mexico's low-budget films. She has been involved in more than fifty films since she began her career as an actress in soap operas.

She also has created six albums, of which five are studio albums, and one is an album of remixes named Soy(Remix), released in 1997.

Lorena is currently promoting her latest album Desnudame El Alma, released on June 12. the first single from the album is called "Ya".

To commemorate her 25th anniversary in show business, Herrera is expected to have her handprints imbedded onto the Paseo de las Luminarias in 2012 for her work in the motion picture and recording industries as well as television.

Soap opera[link]

Lorena Herrera met producer Emilio Larrosa, who had Televisa connections. Larrosa gave her a chance to star in his Telenovela production "Muchachitas" ("Young Girls"), which was a huge hit across Latin America.

She was then hired to participate in the mega-hit Telenovela, "Dos Mujeres, un Camino", where she played the mistress of a villain. Although her participation in that soap opera was relatively short (she joined the drama after about half of the chapters had been filmed, and her character was killed off before the ending). She caused a sensation, becoming a sex symbol across Mexico and Latin America.

Herrera has since acted in many other telenovelas, including "El Premio Mayor". She is also a singer, having released various Mexican music CDs and toured Mexico and the United States. She has been approached by Playboy Mexico to pose nude for that magazine (she appeared in the Mexican Playboy in the December 1987 issue, under the name "Bárbara Ferrat"). She has also released various calendars in which she assumed sensual poses.

On the Univision show, "El Gordo y la Flaca", Lorena shared a bathtub with "El Gordo", Raul De Molina.

She worked as the evil stepmother of Lola (Monserrat) in Lola...Erase Una Vez.She is the mother of Grettell Valdez which interprets Carlota in Lola and she is also the mother of Zoraida Gomez in the soap opera Lola.

She has said that she likes singing, but acting is her favorite activity.

She has worked with Carla Estrada, Emilio Larosa, Pedro Damian and other producers.

She said recently on the "Mentiras y Verdades" show that she did not like to make novelas with Emilio Larrosa after "El Premio Mayor" told her that her part was going to be the antagonist. Her character appeared less and less and said stupid things.

Actress[link]

• 2010: Niña de mi Corazon .... Silvana
• 2007: Lola...Erase una vez .... Monserrat Torres-Oviedo de Santo Domingo
• 2005: La venganza del viejo
• 2005: Una segunda oportunidad
• 2004: La escuelita VIP "La escuelita".... Lorenita
• 2004: Amy, la niña de la mochila azul ....Leonora Rivas
• 2003: El jardinero 2
• 2002: Comando M-5
• 2001: En la mira de mi gatillo .... Carlos
• 2001: Orquidea sangrienta
• 2000: Mi destino eres tú .... Olga Ramos Moret
• 2000: Provocación .... Mariana
• 2000: Y... donde está el policleto?
• 1999: Amigo tequila
• 1999: El jardinero .... Lilia Gallardo
• 1999: Asesinato por encargo
• 1999: ¿Qué nos pasa?
• 1999: Cuentas claras .... Güera
• 1998: Table Dance
• 1998: 2 sinaloenses y 3 colombianas
• 1998: Mi ultima bala
• 1997: Maria Isabel .... Lucrecia
• 1996: El talachas y su meneito
• 1996: Rumores de muerte
• 1996: Changos, monos y gorilas
• 1995: Una mujer con oficio
• 1995: El premio mayor .... Lorenza
• 1994: Pruebas de amor
• 1994: Muralla de tinieblas
• 1994: Herencia diabólica
• 1994: Hasta que la muerte los separe .... Lorena / ... (2 episodes, 1994)
• 1993: Dos mujeres, un camino .... Lorena
• 1993: Halcones de la muerte - Espias mortales .... Eva
• 1993: Entre la vida y la muerte .... Jessica
• 1993: Amargo destino
• 1993: Contrabando de esmeraldas
• 1992: Lucha a muerte (uncredited)
• 1992: Muerte ciega
• 1992: La fichera mas rapida del oeste
• 1992: De un blanco mortal .... Susana Prado
• 1991: Pecado original
• 1991: Dos nacos en el planeta de las mujeres
• 1991: Desvestidas y alborotadas
• 1991: Yo soy la ley
• 1991: Traición
• 1991: Burbujas de amor
• 1991: No me des las... gracias llorando
• 1991: Hembra o macho
• 1991: La pareja perfecta .... Soledad
• 1991: Muchachitas .... Claudia
• 1991: Corrupción y placer .... Ana
• 1991: Maria la guerrillera
• 1991: Hacer el amor con otro
• 1991: Policía secreto .... Carolina
• 1991: Perseguida
• 1991: Acapulco
• 1990: El agarratodo
• 1990: Para todas tengo
• 1990: La chica del alacrán de oro .... Coty
• 1990: Comando marino .... Marta
• 1990: La isla de los alacranes
• 1990: Justiciero callejero
• 1989: El diario íntimo de una cabaretera
• 1989: El pájaro con suelas
• 1989: Las borrachas
• 1989: Pasandola bien
• 1989: Las calenturas de Juan Camaney II
• 1989: El mil hijos
• 1989: Entre cornudos te veas
• 1988: Un paso al más aca
• 1988: Para que dure no se apure
• 1988: Durazo, la verdadera historia
• 1987: Los mayates atacan

Discography[link]

"Lorena Herrera" (1996)

"Soy" (1996)

1. "Tri Tri"
2. "Soy"
3. "Olvidate"
4. "Los Pecados De Amor" (Single)
5. "Oh Yeah!"
6. "Pim Pam Pum"
7. "Esa Soy Yo"
8. "Corazonadas"
9. "Yo Vivire"
10. "Soy Remix"

"Soy Remix" (1997)

"Desnudame El Alma" (2000)

1. "Ritmo Tequila"
2. "Nunca Dejaré de Amarte"
3. "Desnudame El Alma"
4. "Despacito"
5. "Dame Amor"
6. "Sienteme"
7. "Eo Deséo"
8. "Más Allá Del Mómento"
9. "El Amor Que No Tiene Rival"
10. "Los Magos de La Noche"

"Sobrevivire" (2003)

1. "Sobreviviré"
2. "Que Culpa Tengo Yo"
3. "Dejame"
4. "Mi Amor Por Ti"
5. "Como La Flor"
6. "Eres Mi Todo"
7. "Que No Quede Huella"
8. "De Que Me Sirve"
9. "Obsesion"
10. "Abrazame"
11. "Abrazame (Jota Remix)"

"Aqui Estoy" (2005)

1. "Aquí Estoy"
2. "Déjame"
3. "Amame"
4. "Abrazando Tu Recuerdo"
5. "Oro Molido"
6. "Callaré"
7. "Vamos a Darnos Tiempo"
8. "Envidia Me Da"
9. "Recuerdos"
10. "Baila Mi Ritmo"

"Desnudame El Alma" (2009)

1. "Desnudame el Alma"
2. "Gritaremos Ante el Mundo"
3. "Chica Espacial"
4. "Sobredosis"
5. "Ya"
6. "Sexy Lover"
7. "Sexy"
8. "Dame Amor [Version en Espanol]"
9. "Solo Quiero"
10. "Dentro de Ti"

External links[link]

• Official website
• Lorena Herrera from Televisa Website
• Lorena Herrera on Myspace
• Lorena Herrera: The Web Site (in Spanish)
• Lorena Herrera at the Internet Movie Database