Badiraguato facts for kids
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 Badiraguato
Location in Sinaloa
Badiraguato
Location in Mexico
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| Country |  Mexico |
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| State | Sinaloa | |
| Municipality | Badiraguato | |
| Founded in | 1669 | |
| Population
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| • Total | 3,725 | |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (Mountain Daylight Time) | |
| Website | Official website: http://www.badiraguato.gob.mx | |
Badiraguato is a small city and seat of the Badiraguato Municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It stands at 25°21′47″N 107°33′06″W / 25.36306°N 107.55167°W.
According to 2010 census, the city reported 3,725 inhabitants.
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.
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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".
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.
Notable monument
The largest statue of Judas Thaddaeus in the world is in Badiraguato, Sinaloa. It was inaugurated on September 26, 2023.
See also
In Spanish: Badiraguato para niños
