Sinaloa de Leyva () is a town in the
Mexican
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of
Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales.
It is located in northwest Mexic ...
.
Its geographical location is . The honorific "de Leyva" commemorates , an early supporter of
Francisco I. Madero
Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'état in Februa ...
in the
Mexican Revolution
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who was born there. Sinaloa serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality ''(
municipio
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In English, a municipality often is define ...
)'' of
Sinaloa, Sinaloa. The municipality reported 88,282 inhabitants in the 2010
census
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. It is a former capital of the state of Sinaloa.
History
The town was founded on 30 April 1583 as Villa de San Felipe y Santiago de Sinaloa by Don Pedro de Montoya. In 1585 the second foundation of the town was carried out by Antonio Ruiz, Bartolomé de Mondragón, Tomás de Soberanes, Juan Martínez del Castillo y Juan Caballero. By 1590, Ruiz was its mayor, and the town was home to nine people who eked out a living, but the situation improved through their discovery of the mines of Chínipas, and the arrival of the
Jesuit
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missionaries Gonzalo de Tapia and Martín Pérez in 1591.
At the end of the sixteenth century, Ruiz wrote an autobiography where he detailed the early history of San Felipe y Santiago, and Sinaloa.
In 1595,
Luis de Velasco granted residents' petitions for a at San Felipe y Santiago, and dispatched Captain Alonso Díaz with 24 soldiers to found it. The of Sinaloa was the northwesternmost in New Spain until the 1689 founding of the
Presidio de Fronteras.
This was the base for Diego de Hurdaide's subjugation of the
Sinaloas,
Tehuecos,
Ahomes and
Zuaques and the extension of Spanish control over the Fuerte River valley, and thus to the northern edge of modern Sinaloa.
[Edward H. Spicer, ''Cycles of Conquest'' (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962), p. 46-47]
References
External links
* http://www.sinaloa.gob.mx/conociendo/municipios/sinaloa.htm
Populated places established in 1583
Populated places in Sinaloa
1583 establishments in the Spanish Empire
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