Definition of Culiacan

1. Noun. A city in northwestern Mexico.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States

Lexicographical Neighbors of Culiacan

Cudworthian
Cufic
Cuiabá
Cuidad Bolivar
Cuisenaire rod
Cuisenaire rods
Culbertson
Culcita
Culcita dubia
Culdee
Culdees
Culebra
Culex fatigans
Culex pipiens
Culex quinquefasciatus
Culiacan (current term)
Culicoides
Culicoides austeni
Culicoides furens
Culicoides milnei
Culicoides variipennis
Culiseta melanura
Cullen
Cullen's sign
Cullen skink
Culm
Culp pyeloplasty
Cultural Revolution
Culver's physic
Culver's root

Literary usage of Culiacan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango ; with a by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton (1883)
"There is a cotton factory in Culiacan, owned by Redo, who resides in the same town, ... There is also a mint in Culiacan. The principal business houses are, ..."

2. The Journey of Coronado: 1540-1542 ; from the City of Mexico to the Grand by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Antonio de Mendoza, Juan Camilo Jaramillo, Pedro Reyes Castañeda (1904)
"CHAPTER VI Of how the general started from Culiacan to give the viceroy an ... IT seemed, indeed, as if the arrival in the valley of Culiacan had ended the ..."

3. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"Dated in Saint Michael Culiacan the 8. of March, 1539. ... Y the helpe of God I meane to set for from this City of S. Michael of Culiacan toward ..."

4. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542: From the City of Mexico to the Grand by Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Antonio de Mendoza, Juan Camilo Jaramillo (1904)
"CHAPTER VI Of how the general started from Culiacan to give the viceroy an ... IT seemed, indeed, as if the arrival in the valley of Culiacan had ended the ..."

5. Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543: The Narrative of by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera, Frederick Webb Hodge, Theodore Hayes Lewis (1907)
"Chapter 6 Of how the general started from Culiacan to give the viceroy an ... It seemed, indeed, as if the arrival in the valley of Culiacan had ended the ..."

6. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"To the east of this province extends that of Culiacan, of which the capital, the seat of an ancient monarchy, is peopled with nearly 11000 inhabitants. ..."

7. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain by Alexander von Humboldt (1814)
"worn out with fatigue, naked, and covered with wounds, on the coast of Culiacan, opposite the peninsula of California. He had landed with Panfilo ..."

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