Badiraguato Explained

Official Name:Badiraguato
Settlement Type:City
Pushpin Map:Mexico Sinaloa#Mexico
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Sinaloa
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Badiraguato
Leader Title:Municipal president
Leader Name:Diego Salazar
Established Title:Founded in
Established Date:1669
Established Title2:Founded by Diego Salazar
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:3,725
Timezone:Mountain Standard Time
Utc Offset:-7
Timezone Dst:Mountain Daylight Time
Utc Offset Dst:-6
Coordinates:25.3631°N -107.5517°W
Website:Official website

Badiraguato is a small city and seat of the Badiraguato Municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It stands at 25.3631°N -107.5517°W.According to 2010 census, the city reported 3,725 inhabitants. The hamlet of La Tuna, located 110 kilometres to the North of the city, is the birthplace of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, for a long time one of Mexico's most powerful drug lords.[1]

Badiraguato is located near the municipality of Culiacán. The Sierra Madre Occidental cross Badiragua and provide temperate forest ecosystems in parts of the municipality.

Badiraguato has a varied climate, from hot and arid to snowy forests in its higher parts. Areas vary from 44.5°C, the hottest, to -9 °C degrees, the coldest.

Etymology

The origin of the word Badiraguato is composed of the Cáhita-Tarascos terms: ba, "dira"; huato, a hybridism; whose roots are as follows: the Cáhita word ba, "water", "stream or river"; and the Tarascos root dira, "many", and huata or huato, hill; which literally means "stream of many hills", this can be interpreted, in a more concrete way, as "the stream of the mountains".[2]

In pre-Hispanic times, the toponymy was applied to a stream because it accurately refers to the flow of Badiraguato (also known as Río Chico), which springs from the Sierra de Los Parra or Surutato and also gave its name to the town with signs established on its banks where it passes to join in the foothills of the mountain range in front of the disappeared town of Alicama.

The municipality of Badiraguato was created by decree published in the official newspaper of the state on April 8, 1915.

History

In the seventeenth century, Jesuit missionaries founded San Juan de Badiraguato.

Recent events

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was widely criticized for meeting Consuela Loera, aged 92 at the time, and mother of convicted drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Badiraguato during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[3] Loera gave AMLO a letter asking that her son be repatriated to Mexico. Lopez Obrador said,[4]

She is a 92-year-old lady and I already said, the fatal plague is corruption, not an older adult who deserves all my respect, regardless of who her son is. And I would keep doing it. Sometimes I have to shake hands, because that is my job, to white-collar criminals, who have not even lost their respectability. So how can I not give it to a lady?

Notable monument

The largest statue of Judas Thaddaeus in the world is in Badiraguato, Sinaloa. It was inaugurated on September 26, 2023.[5]

Notable people from rancherias in Badiraguato Municipality

These individuals were born and lived in rancherias also known as ranchos in Mexican Spanish which are within the Badiraguato Municipality.

Notes and References

  1. News: Stephey. M.J.. Joaquin Guzman Loera: Billionaire Drug Lord. https://web.archive.org/web/20090313234407/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1884982,00.html. dead. March 13, 2009. 24 January 2012. Times. 13 May 2009.
  2. Web site: Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México - Estado de Sinaloa - Badiraguato . Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal . 2023-06-27 . 2021-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210925182411/http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM25sinaloa/municipios/25003a.html . dead .
  3. https://www.proceso.com.mx/623768/amlo-mama-de-el-chapo-badiraguato AMLO greets the mother of "El Chapo" on her visit to Badiraguato (VIDEO)
  4. https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2020/03/30/estimado-hermano-en-cristo-difunden-la-carta-integra-de-la-mama-del-chapo-a-lopez-obrador/ "Dear brother in Christ": they disseminate the complete letter of Chapo's mother to López Obrador
  5. Web site: Chávez . Brenda . 2023-11-14 . San Judas Tadeo de Badiraguato: Así luce la estatua de 25 metros a unas horas de Chihuahua . 2023-12-27 . El Heraldo de Chihuahua Noticias Locales, Policiacas, de México, Chihuahua y el Mundo . es.
  6. Web site: Badiraguato: así es el pequeño pueblo escondido de Sinaloa, de donde salieron el "Chapo", Caro Quintero y el "Mayo" . infobae . Infoabae . February 7, 2021 . es-ES.