Sinaloa, Mexico

Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa

Last modified: 2005-03-05 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note: Sinaloa has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat of arms is broadly used:

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by Pascal Gross and Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, April 20, 2002. See: Coat of arms on white background: unofficial flags

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  Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán

• Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa / Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa
  
• Short-form names: Estado de Sinaloa / State of Sinaloa; Sinaloa
  
• Location: North-West of Mexico. It limits the Mexican States of Sonora (NW), Chihuahua (N), Durango (E) and Nayarit (SE); the Gulf of California (W) and the Pacific Ocean (S).
  
• Area: 58,092 km² (2.9% out of Mexico)
  
• Municipalities: 18
  
• Population: 2,536,844 inhabitants
  
• Capital: Culiacán (Pop.: 745,537)
  
• Statehood: 1830
  
• Arms adopted: November 29, 1958
  
• Arms designed by: Rolando Arjona Amábilis.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

An oval shield crested with the same motive as the national emblem (but not in the same specific arrangement), and set on a compartment of rock where can be seen some reptile green body (the posterior of the snake in the crest? doubtfully...). The shiled itself has a border of bright reddish purple (the east german malinorot) semee of flowers (?) with withe center and red petals and charged from upper dexter to lower sinister (as if in querters I and IV) of black stylized human footprints (!), the first and the last protuding outside the shield... White sans serif uppercase lettering "SINALOA" in the top and "1831" in the bottom. The field is qurtered, being the background colors of each quarter purple, red, dark yellow and blue. In the charges one can tell a deer head, smoking white clouds (IV), two anchors (III and IV), large chain links (III), flames (III), a castle (II) and a setting golden crescent (II)...
António Martins, 01 Sep 1999