The name of Sinaloa comes from a term used in Cahita language that means "Pitahaya Redonda" (Rounded Pitaya), a fruit typical of region. The conquest of Sinaloa began 1531 by the spaniards headed by Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán.

LOCALIZATION

Sinaloa is located next to Baja California, South Baja California, Sonora and Nayarit. It's part of the economic region Northeast of México and its borders are the extreme coordenates 22 29' and 27 03' North Latitude and 105 23' and 109 27' west longitude.

TERRITORIAL SURFACE

The state of Sinaloa has a territory surface of 58,092 square kilometers, equal to 2.9% of the country's total. Its extends from the Eeastern Sierra Madre Mountains into the Pacific Ocean. It has a privileged location on the Pacific as well as eleven dams which generate electric power and make up yhe basic watering infrastructure, thus giving way to the highest technical agriculture developed in Mexico.

HYDROLOGY

Eleven dams have been built in order to control and make the most of this potential.
They have a storage capacity of 22,405 millon cubic meters.

WEATHER

Sinaloa has a warm climate on the coast side, moderate-warm in the valleys and lower mountainskirts, moderate-cold in small mountains and cold in the high ones. Its weather characteristics vary from semytropical, found on the plains, to cold in the nearby mountains. The temperature goes from 22° C to 43° C with rains during the summer.

AGRICULTURE

Sinaloa has had the most technical of agriculture devices and the most modern ones in the country for four decades. Its high productivity allows participation in international markets by exporting fruit and vegetable products which represent more than 60% of the total exports made in Sinaloa.

The production of fruit and vegetables harvested in the state are internal consumption and for export to the United states, while other quantities are comercialized in Spain, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan and Colombia.

Sinaloa is also an important national agricultural state, harvesting more than 8 million tons per year. On a national level, it is among the first places in vegetables such as, tomatoes, cucumbers, punkins, potatoes, chilis and eggplants, in fruits there are mangoes, cantaloupes and watermelons, and in grains, there corn, beans, soybeans, safflowers, rice, wheat and sorgum.