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unusual facts about Villa Unión, Sinaloa



Andrés Pérez de Ribas

In the same year he was sent to undertake the Christianization of the Ahome and Suaqui of northern Sinaloa, of whom the former were friendly and anxious for teachers, while the latter had just been brought to submission after a hard campaign.

Benjamín G. Hill

Benjamín Hill (Choix, Sinaloa, 31 March 1874 – Mexico City, 14 December 1920) was a military commander during the Mexican Revolution.

Cal Jet Air

On January 30, 2013, the Cal Jet Air announced that the Mazatlan service would end February 5, 2013 over two months early, due to low bookings and a withdrawal of support from the Sinaloa government.

Carolina Morán

Morán, who stands 5'10" (1.78 m) tall, competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico, held in Tampico, Tamaulipas on September 2, 2006 and obtained the title of Miss Mexico World after placing second to Rosa María Ojeda of the state of Sinaloa.

Chayito Valdez

Chayito Valdez (born María del Rosario Valdez Campos; May 28, 1945 in Orba, Guasave, Sinaloa) is a Mexican-born American singer and actress associated with the folk music of Mexico.

Chimichanga

A third, and perhaps most likely possibility, is that the chimichanga, or chivichanga, has long been a part of local cuisine of the Pimería Alta of Arizona and Sonora, with its early range extending southward into Sinaloa.

Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar

Early in his mandate in New Spain, he sent Captain Diego Martínez de Hurdáiz to suppress an uprising of the Tehuecos, an ethnic subgroup of the Cahuitas of Sinaloa.

Disappearance of Zane Plemmons

Zane Alejandro Plemmons Rosales was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, and grew up traveling through the border that divides Mexico and Texas.

Edgardo Coghlan

Coghlin’s work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo de Arte in Sinaloa, Mitchel Museum in Mount Vernon, Illinois, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum and various universities as well as in private collections in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Scotland and Chile.

Editorial Mazatlan

Editorial Mazatlan is a small, independent publisher located in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico specializing in English-language books on Mexican history and culture.

El Potro de Sinaloa

José Eulogio Hernandez, better known by his stage name El Potro de Sinaloa, is a Mexican conjunto singer born in Tapias, Sinaloa.

Francisco Iriarte y Conde

He was one of the main advocates of the separation of Sinaloa and Senora.

Francisco Iriarte y Conde (1790–1832) was the governor of Occidente State and later of Sinaloa during the 1820s and early 1830s.

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Gitanas

From the moment they meet in the fishing village of Topolobampo (Sinaloa), it is love at first sight.

Horacio Llamas

Horacio Llamas Grey (born July 17, 1973 in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico), known in non-Spanish-speaking countries as Horacio Llamas, is a Mexican former professional basketball player.

Humberto Millán Salazar

In Sinaloa--the state in Mexico where Millán was murdered—operates one of the largest, most dangerous drug cartels: The Sinaloa Cartel.

Javier Valdez Cárdenas

In 2003, he and other reporters from the daily newspaper Noroeste founded Ríodoce, a weekly dedicated to crime and corruption in Sinaloa, considered one of Mexico's most violent states.

Jesus Gutierrez

Jesus Alberto Gutierrez Gonzalez (born December 19, 1988, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico), is a professional American boxer of Mexican descent.

Leonarda Estrella Laureano

Leonarda Estrella Laureano is a Mayo Mexican potter from Capomos, El Fuerte in Sinaloa.

Leonardo Reichel

Reichel started working in different newspaper publishing agencies throughout Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California.

Luis Orozco

Luis Alberto Orozco Peñuelas (born 1 March 1984 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa) is a Mexican footballer.

Mazatlán

The municipality has a land area of 3,068.48 km² (1,184.75 sq mi) and includes smaller outlying communities such as Villa Unión, La Noria, El Quelite, El Habal and many other small villages.

Milanesa

In northern Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua (due to U.S influence), it features lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise like a traditional sandwich, but the milanesa is also common in these regions as the main course of a meal.

Miss Bala

Miss Bala is loosely based on a real incident, in which 2008’s Miss Sinaloa, Laura Zúñiga, was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled with munitions outside Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Nelson's milksnake

Until noted by Williams in 1978, it was not recognized that the L. t. sinaloae, or Sinaloan milksnake, found near Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, is a subspecies of milksnake distinct from the less common L.

Pablo Beltrán Ruiz

Pablo Beltrán Ruiz (born 5 March 1915 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico - died 29 July 2008) was a Mexican composer and band leader most famous for composing the Spanish language song "¿Quién será?", a hit made famous internationally by Dean Martin as "Sway" in 1954, and later by Bobby Rydell in 1960, with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel.

Pacífico

Cerveza Pacífico is named so because the Pacífico brewery is located in the Pacific Ocean port city of Mazatlán, in the state of Sinaloa, México.

Ríodoce

Ríodoce is a Mexican weekly dedicated to coverage of organized crime and the Mexican drug war in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Roberto Tapia

Tapia spent much of his youth in Culiacán in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, where, at the age of 9, he applied and was accepted to the prestigious Difocur School of music in Culiacan, now known as the Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura (ISIC).

Teddy Higuera

Teodoro Higuera Valenzuela (born November 9, 1958 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.

ToniCol

It is most popular in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, especially in the city of Mazatlán, though it can be found typically in the western states, such as Jalisco.

Valente Quintero

He participated in the maderistas forces until his triumph in Sinaloa.


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