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Key facts
- Country
- Mexico
- State
- Sinaloa
- Municipality
- Ahome
- Elevation
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Total
- 256,613 (124,228 males 132,385 females)
- Per capita
- $21,900
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain Standard Time )
- Postal code
- 81200 to
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Encyclopedic overview
Los Mochis ( Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈmotʃis]) is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2010 census, the population was 362,613, which was 61 percent of the municipality's population.
Los Mochis is the western terminus of the Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad (El Chepe), which passes through the scenic Copper Canyon. This railway was approved by President Porfirio Díaz as a trade route linking the cattle markets in Kansas City with the nearest port on the Pacific Ocean, Topolobampo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Los Mochis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.