Ahome

Ahome (Spaingie pronunciation: [aˈome]) is a municipality on the coast o the Sea o Cortez in the northwastren pairt o the Mexican state o Sinaloa; it is adjacent tae Higuera de Zaragoza, Sinaloa, an the soothren mairch o Sonora state. It reportit haed 388,344 indwallers in the 2005 census. Ahome (population 10,840) is the name o the seicont-lairgest commonty in the municipality. The municipal seat is the port ceety o Los Mochis, its lairgest commonty. It is the third maist important municipality in the state o Sinaloa, an is a commercial corridor tae the northwast o the kintra. It is situatit on the Paceefic coastal plain, at the entrance o the Guwf o Californie an lees in the hert o a rich agricultural region, el Valle de Fuerte (Valley o Fuerte River). It staunds at 25°33′50″N 108°46′00″W.

Ahome Municipio de Ahome
Municipality
Coat airms
Location o the municipality in Sinaloa
Kintra	Mexico
State	Sinaloa
Seat	Los Mochis
No. o Sindicaturas	7
Foondation	1917
Govrenment
• Municipal preses	Zenén Xóchihua
Area
• Total	4342.89 km2 (1,676.80 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	416,299
Time zone	UTC-7 (Muntain Staundart Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (Muntain Daylicht Time)
Website	Ahome govrenment page

Major commonties

• Ahome
• Higuera de Zaragoza
• Los Mochis
• San Miguel Zapotitlán
• Topolobampo

Municipal History

• 1605 - Foundation o the toun o Ahome, wi the arrival o missionaries led bi Faither Ribas.
• 1851 - Year o cholera, when the disease claims numerous lives in the region.
• 1880 - Installation o a succar refinery, a fundamental pillar o the futur ceety.
• 1901 - Openin o the Kansas City Mexico & Oriente Railway company in Topolobampo.
• 1902 - Durin the whole year, the bubonic plague devastates the region.
• 1903 Foondation o Los Mochis.
• 1904 - Creation o the toun o Ahome la Junta Separatista (Separatist Committee), which seeks separation frae the municipality o El Fuerte (the Fort) an the creation o Ahome.
• 1914 - Felipe Bachomo takes la Villa de Ahome (Village o Ahome) bi violent force.
• 1917 - La Villa de Ahome is designatit municipal seat o the new municipality.
• 1935 - The ceety cooncil chynges the municipal seat tae Los Mochis.

Presidentes Municipales

• 1948 - 1950: Francisco Ceballos - ane o the best preses due tae his contreibutions tae the municipality, includin the heich-gate atween Los Mochis an Ahome an atween Los Mochis an Topolobampo
• 1951 - 1953: Samuel C. Castro
• 1954 - 1956: Armando Guerrero
• 1947 - 1959: Miguel León López
• 1960 - 1962: Antonio López Bojórquez
• 1963 - 1965: Alfonso Calderón Velarde
• 1966 - 1968: Canuto Ibarra Guerrero
• 1969 - 1971: Ernesto Ortegón
• 1972 - 1974: Nicanor Villareal
• 1975 - 1977: Oscar Monzón
• 1978 - 1980: Oscar Aguilar Pereira
• 1981 - 1983: Jaime Ibarra
• 1984 - 1986: Felipe Moreno Rosales
• 1987 - 1989: Ernesto Álvarez Nolasco
• 1990 - 1992: Ramón Ignacio Rodrigo Castro
• 1993 - 1995: Federico Careaga
• 1996 - 1998: Francisco López Brito
• 1999 - 2001: Esteban Valenzuela García
• 2002 - 2004: Mario López Valdez
• 2005 - 2007: Policarpo Infante Fierro
• 2008 - 2010: Esteban Valenzuela García

References

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• Sinaloa Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

Freemit airtins

• Municipio de Ahome Offeecial wabsteid
• http://www.sinaloa.gob.mx/conociendo/municipios/ahome.htm Archived 2004-05-03 at the Wayback Machine