Мокорито қаласы: тарихы, географиясы және тұрғындары

City in the Mexican state of Sinaloa

Mocorito (From Cahita, meaning "place where people speak macuri (dialect of Mayo)" or "place of the dead") is the municipality seat of the Municipality of Mocorito in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The city reported 5,926 inhabitants in the 2020 census.

At the time of the Spanish contact, the Cáhita group of tribes were living in pueblos and permanent villages along the banks of the Mocorito, Sinaloa, Fuerte, Mayo and Yaqui Rivers in the coastal regions of both southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa. The Cáhitan group is part of the Uto Aztecan Language Group and is most closely related to the Pima and Cora languages.

Professor Héctor R. Olea indicates that Mocorito is a Cáhita term, a variant of "macori to," composed of macuri, an apocopation of "macorihui," a modification of the term "macoyahuy," referring to a group of Mayo Indians or people who speak a dialect of the Cahita language; additionally, the suffix "to" denotes location, place; the place name means "place of people who speak a dialect of the Cahita language, or where the Mayo Indians or macoritos reside." Other historians, such as Mr. Eustaquio Buelna, lean towards translating Mocorito as "place of the dead."

In Mocorito it is possible to perfectly identify the three climatic regions found in Sinaloa: tropical savannah on the west; mountain in the east and a transition zone in the central area. Three levels of vegetation are featured: conifers, oaks, oaks and pines in the high mountains; amapas, ebony, cedars and junipers in its foothills, and herbs and shrubs in the coastal area where mangroves thrive, guamuchileros, mesquite and wild figs. Most of the farmland is temporary, with crops such as rice, soybean, safflower, corn, cottonseed, sesame, beans, sorghum and cotton in bales, sugarcane, corn; fruits such as cantaloupe, watermelon, avocado, mango, orange and papaya. The main breeds are cattle, pigs, goats and sheep. Among the wild animals, we find the deer, hare, rabbit, armadillo, iguana and others; and wild animals such as wild cats, tigers and lions living in the deepest mountain regions.