Concordia
A municipality in southern Sinaloa, in the Sierra Madre Occidental. Its seat, founded in 1565 as Villa de San Sebastián and renamed Concordia in 1828, is recognized as a Pueblo Señorial and for its century-old furniture-making tradition.
Key facts
- Municipal seat
- Heroica Ciudad Concordia
- Population
- 24,899 · 2020
- Occupied dwellings
- 7,216 · 2020
- INEGI code
- 25004
Overview
Concordia spans the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in southern Sinaloa, southeast of Mazatlán. Its seat keeps a historic center of colonial architecture.
Handcrafted wooden furniture-making, with more than a century of tradition, is one of the municipality's distinctive activities.
History
Per municipal sources, Spanish captain Francisco de Ibarra founded the Villa de San Sebastián in 1565, the origin of Concordia's present-day seat.
In 1828, based on Sinaloa's first political constitution, the villa took the name Concordia; a local tradition, not documented at the primary-source level, associates this with the reconciliation of two regional Masonic lodges.
The municipality of Concordia was constituted as a free municipality as part of Sinaloa's 1915-1917 municipal reform; an exact decree date for its individual creation has not been independently verified.
Geography
The municipality lies in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in southern Sinaloa, southeast of Mazatlán, with territory combining sierra areas and dry-tropical lowlands.
Cities and localities
Municipal seat
Other localities
- Mesillas · 1,716 residents (2020)
- Agua Caliente de Gárate (Agua Caliente) · 1,692 residents (2020)
- La Concepción (La Barrigona) · 1,168 residents (2020)
- El Huajote · 1,105 residents (2020)
- El Verde · 1,074 residents (2020)
- Malpica · 623 residents (2020)
- El Palmito · 576 residents (2020)
- Zavala · 571 residents (2020)
- Tepuxta · 474 residents (2020)
The municipality contains 327 localities on the INEGI register.
Related topics
- Colonial history
- History
Sources and data
The figures on this page come from public sources. Each data point shows its year and origin.
- Heroica Ciudad Concordia — H. Ayuntamiento de Concordia, Sin. — Gobierno Municipal de Concordia
- Vive la historia de los muebles de Concordia. Aquí los detalles de la feria — Punto MX
- Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 — Principales resultados por localidad (ITER), Sinaloa — Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía