Navolato
A coastal municipality in central Sinaloa, created in 1982 through Decreto No. 212 with territory split off the municipality of Culiacán. Its economy rests on irrigated agriculture, with a cane-growing tradition going back to the nineteenth century.
Key facts
- Municipal seat
- Navolato · City
- Population
- 149,122 · 2020
- Occupied dwellings
- 37,648 · 2020
- INEGI code
- 25018
Overview
Navolato lies on the coastal plain of central Sinaloa, west of Culiacán, between the farming valley of the Río Culiacán and the coast of the Gulf of California.
Its economy rests mainly on irrigated agriculture; sugarcane cultivation, present in the region since the nineteenth century, is one of the distinctive features of the municipality's farm output.
History
The land the municipality of Navolato now occupies was part of the municipality of Culiacán until 1982. The state congress, through Decreto No. 212, created Sinaloa's eighteenth municipality, named "Navolato", from territory split off Culiacán.
The new seat was the locality of Navolato, whose nineteenth-century growth was tied to the region's cane-farming development, around the old Ingenio La Primavera.
Geography
The municipality lies on the coastal plain of central Sinaloa, with a coastline on the Gulf of California.
The municipal territory is predominantly agricultural, largely part of the Río Culiacán valley irrigation district.
Cities and localities
Municipal seat
Other localities
- Licenciado Benito Juárez (Campo Gobierno) · 33,496 residents (2020)
- General Ángel Flores (La Palma) · 10,978 residents (2020)
- San Pedro · 4,123 residents (2020)
- Batauto (Laguna de Batauto) · 2,863 residents (2020)
- El Castillo · 2,811 residents (2020)
- Juan Aldama (El Tigre) · 2,563 residents (2020)
- Altata · 2,137 residents (2020)
- Dautillos · 2,069 residents (2020)
- Las Aguamitas · 1,648 residents (2020)
The municipality contains 478 localities on the INEGI register.
Related topics
- Agriculture
- History
Sources and data
The figures on this page come from public sources. Each data point shows its year and origin.
- Evolución histórica de los municipios de México de 1810 a 2020. Sinaloa — Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
- Navolato — página oficial del municipio — Gobierno Municipal de Navolato
- Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 — Principales resultados por localidad (ITER), Sinaloa — Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía