1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Culiacán, Mexico before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Culiacán—808,416, America/Mazatlan, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Culiacán is GeoNames ID 4012176. Its recorded administrative path is Culiacan → Sinaloa → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Culiacán occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Culiacán ranks 688 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 20; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 102. Its 808,416 population value is 1.00 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 0.99 times the 816,326 regional median. Culiacán sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Culiacán's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Culiacán's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Victoria de Durango at 290.406 km with 518,709 recorded people; Torreón at 408.442 km with 735,340 recorded people; Chihuahua City at 445.5 km with 925,762 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 155.094 km. Compared with Victoria de Durango, Culiacán's recorded population is 1.56 times as large. Against Culiacán, Victoria de Durango follows Durango → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Monterrey instead of America/Mazatlan, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Culiacán's. Against Culiacán, Torreón follows Torreon → Coahuila → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Monterrey instead of America/Mazatlan, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Culiacán's. Against Culiacán, Chihuahua City follows Chihuahua → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Chihuahua instead of America/Mazatlan, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Culiacán's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,106 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Culiacán's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 4012176, the coordinate pair 24.8021 / 107.3942, country rank 20 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 4011743 at 290.406 km bind Culiacán to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Culiacán's reference point is 24.8021° north and 107.3942° west. The IANA identifier America/Mazatlan is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Culiacán's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Culiacán's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Culiacán's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Culiacán, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Culiacán's closest other entries in this atlas are Victoria de Durango (290.406 km), Torreón (408.442 km), Chihuahua City (445.5 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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