Sinaloa

[seen-l-oh-uh, sin-, see-nah-law-ah]

noun

1. a state in W Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of California. 22,582 sq. mi. (58,485 sq. km). Culiacán.

Sinaloa

/ ˌsɪn-, ˌsiːnəˈləʊə, sinaˈloa /

noun

1. a state of W Mexico. Capital: Culiacán. Pop: 2 534 835 (2000). Area: 58 092 sq km (22 425 sq miles)

Example Sentences

According to Mexican newspaper La Silla Rota, Jesús Gerardo and Irineo Francisco have ties with the powerful drug cartel Sinaloa, which was for many years led by the notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

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Chavarria emerged from an Ecuadorean criminal underworld once dominated by a prison gang that works with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel to move Colombian cocaine north.

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In Mexico, a war broke out between the families of the founders of the Sinaloa cartel after the capture of patriarch Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in 2024.

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"Cartel de los Soles by and with other designated FTOs including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel are responsible for terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.

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The Sinaloa Attorney General's Office said the boat had set out from southern Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, with 27 passengers aged 14 to 17, and an 18-year-old.

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