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Culiacán

American  
[koo-lyah-kahn] / ˌku lyɑˈkɑn /

noun

  1. a city in and capital of Sinaloa state, in NW Mexico.


Culiacán British  
/ kuljaˈkan /

noun

  1. a city in NW Mexico, capital of Sinaloa state. Pop: 799 000 (2005 est)

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Culiacán is a prosperous city, full of shopping malls, neat parks and fancy car dealerships.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

Cuén Ojeda, a former mayor of Culiacán who ran for governor in 2016 but lost, had also served as rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

Growing up gay in the hyper-conservative northern city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Barraza never saw gay characters he identified with on a deeper level staring back at him from the screen of his family’s clunky television.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

At a February agricultural trade show in Culiacán, Sinaloa’s capital, Bayer highlighted its short corn in large party tents surrounded by corn plants.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2023

The party which, besides the Negro, consisted of three Spaniards—Fray Marcos de Niza, a lay brother, and Fray Onorato—and several Pima Indians, set out from Culiacán on March 7, 1539.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various