Sinaloa de Leyva | |
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  Sinaloa de Leyva Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates:25°36′25″N107°33′18″W / 25.60694°N 107.55500°W /25.60694; -107.55500 | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Sinaloa |
| Municipality | Sinaloa |
| Founded in | 1583 |
| Founded by | Pedro de Montoya |
| Elevation | 80 m (260 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 5,240 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time) |
| Website | Official website |
Sinaloa de Leyva (Spanish pronunciation:[sinaˈloaðeˈlejβa]) is a town in theMexicanstate ofSinaloa. Its geographical location is25°36′25″N107°33′18″W / 25.60694°N 107.55500°W /25.60694; -107.55500. The honorific "de Leyva" commemoratesGabriel Leyva Solano [es], an early supporter ofFrancisco I. Madero in theMexican Revolution who was born there.[1] Sinaloa serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality(municipio) ofSinaloa, Sinaloa. The municipality reported 88,282 inhabitants in the 2010census. It is a former capital of the state of Sinaloa.[citation needed]
The town was founded on 30 April 1583 asVilla de San Felipe y Santiago de Sinaloa by Don Pedro de Montoya. In 1585 the second foundation of the town was carried out by Antonio Ruiz, Bartolomé de Mondragón, Tomás de Soberanes, Juan Martínez del Castillo y Juan Caballero.[2] By 1590, Ruiz was its mayor, and the town was home to nine people who eked out a living, but the situation improved through their discovery of the mines of Chínipas, and the arrival of theJesuit missionaries Gonzalo de Tapia and Martín Pérez in 1591.[3][4] At the end of the sixteenth century, Ruiz wrote an autobiography where he detailed the early history of San Felipe y Santiago, and Sinaloa.
In 1595,Luis de Velasco granted residents' petitions for apresidio at San Felipe y Santiago, andDiego Fernández de Velasco (governor) [es] dispatched Captain Alonso Díaz with 24 soldiers to found it. Thepresidio of Sinaloa was the northwesternmost in New Spain until the 1689 founding of thePresidio de Fronteras.[4]
This was the base for Diego de Hurdaide's subjugation of theSinaloas,Tehuecos,Ahomes andZuaques and the extension of Spanish control over the Fuerte River valley, and thus to the northern edge of modern Sinaloa.[5]
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