Attractions in Culiacán include:
Imala’s hot springs, which are about a 30 minute ride from the city and close to several dams and reservoirs where you can fish large mouth bass all year round.
Altata beach located 30 minutes from Culican where there has been extensive development over the last couple of years, with the goal of becoming a great travel destination in the next decade.
Altata beach is a favorite destination for actress Salma Hayek and singer Thalia.
The Cathedral, a 19th century church which began construction in the 1830s.
Plazuela Alvaro Obregón, which was the place for social gatherings in the 1800s.
The Santuario is a church where you can still see the scars of the 1910 revolution that occurred downtown.
La Lomita or Templo de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is the tallest church in Culiacán, and it has a view of the entire city.
Crash involving bus, gas tanker in western Mexico kills at least 37
A crash involving a gas tanker and a bus killed at least 37 people in the western state of Sinaloa, federal police said Wednesday.
The crash occurred Tuesday evening, near the city of Los Mochis, on a highway linking Mexico City and the border city of Nogales in northern Sinaloa, said a police officer, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record. Four people were injured.
The officer said that the tanker was carrying ammonium chloride, a toxic gas that sickened some of the victims.
A separate crash early Wednesday
Mexico arrests 17 in wave of killings
Prosecutor says gunmen linked to many of 200 drug deaths near border
Federal authorities said Monday they have arrested a group of 17 gunmen who could be responsible for many of the 200 drug-related killings this year in the state of Tamaulipas that borders Texas.
The men were detained in a house in the Tamaulipas state capital of Victoria after a Sunday morning shootout that left two police officers dead, Mexico's top drug prosecutor, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, told a news conference.
Police also arrested four women in the house and found an arsenal that included six
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Delta Adds Nonstop Flights From LAX To Mexico, Central America
Delta Air Lines announced Monday that it will add nonstop flights from Los Angeles International Airport to 11 destinations in Mexico and Central America later this winter.
The new routes are part of the airlines effort to accommodate Hispanic customers, officials said.
Los Angeles is at the heart of Hispanic culture in the United States and we are pleased to expand our service to meet the needs of our customers in this growing West Coast market, said Glen Hauenstein, an executive vice president with Delta.
Beginning in December, Delta Air Lines
Mexico drug prosecutor shot dead in ambush
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a federal drug prosecutor in this industrial city, the latest in a surge of shootings linked to organized crime in northern Mexico, police said on Tuesday.
Hitmen strafed Miguel Angel Esquivel's car as he drove through the outskirts of Monterrey, in northeast Mexico, at around midnight on Monday, killing him instantly, the state prosecutor's office said.
More than 1,000 people, most in northern and western Mexico, have been murdered this year in a brutal battle between rival cartels for control of the cross-border trade with the United States in cocaine,
Bus-Tanker Crash in Mexico Kills 38
Tanker Truck Hauling Toxic Ammonium Choloride Slams Into Bus in Mexico, Killing at Least 38
A tanker truck hauling toxic ammonium chloride slammed into a passenger bus in northwest Mexico, killing 38 people as both vehicles plunged down an embankment, police said Wednesday.
The bus flipped onto its roof in Tuesday night's crash and the tanker spilled it load of 25 tons of ammonium chloride, officials said.
Most of the victims had skin damage caused by chemical burns and authorities were trying to determine if the ammonium chloride contributed to their deaths.
"The majority … had apparently
Drug war ravages Mexico border city, upsets U.S.
The first victim of the day was bound with duct tape, tortured and shot once in the back of the head. His body was then stuffed in the trunk of a Buick Century, doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
A second was found burned beyond recognition, propped up on a makeshift pyre of blazing car tires on the outskirts of this sweltering city on Mexico's border with the United States.
The two killings on Friday brought the murder toll to 119 this year in Nuevo Laredo, and the mayhem has put a strain between
Mexico's drug runners taking to the skies
The little Cessna raced across the Sierra Madre, flying low over the shrub forest, southbound and moving fast. The deal was done, the marijuana was delivered, and with the help of a nice tailwind, the two smugglers on board would be home by sunset.
They weren't exactly being stealthy. It was broad daylight, the single-engine plane had gray duct tape covering its registration number, and there were holes in the wings and tail where its navigation lights should have been.
But this was Sonora, the Mexican state bordering Arizona that is the Chicago O'Hare of
Mexico captures leader of bloody drug gang
Mexico has captured the leader of a drug cartel that has waged a bloody turf war near the U.S. border, the government said on Monday.
Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said the arrest of Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, a surgeon known as "The Doctor," was a mortal blow to the Juarez cartel, a loose affiliation of drug gangs from the western state of Sinaloa prone to bloody feuding.
"This drug trafficker is probably one of the most important to be arrested in history," Cabeza de Vaca said. "Not only are we detaining an important drug
Mexico's most wanted man may be in Guatemala-police
Mexico's most wanted man, drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, may have entered neighboring Guatemala where police are searching for him, authorities said on Friday.
"We have not yet determined if he is here, but we have evidence that leads us to believe he is inside our territory," Guatemala's anti-drug police chief Adan Castillo told a news conference.
Guzman has been sought in Mexico since he escaped from a high-security jail in 2001. He has engaged in a fierce war with rival drug barons that has killed more than 1,000 people this year.
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