Mocorito (meaning "place of the dead") is a small city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The city reported 5,426 inhabitants in the 2010 census. In 1531, with the entry of the conquistador Nuño de Guzmán to northwest Mexico and the founding of the town of San Miguel de Navito, the geographical boundaries of the province of Culiacan were set, subject to the governorship of Nueva Galicia. In 1532, Sebastián de Évora reached the Mocorito valley and called his name, the people and the river, leaving as encomendero dependent as mayor of the province of Culiacan, from that year was defined between the river towards Évora North and Elota River in the south. In 1594 the Mission Mocorito was founded by the Jesuits Juan Bautista Hernando de Velasco and Santarán. More information...
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