Ahome

Ahome () is a municipality on the coast o the Sea o Cortez in the northwastren pairt o the Mexican state o Sinaloa; it is adjacent tae Higuera de Zaragoza, Sinaloa, an the soothren mairch o Sonora state. It reportit haed 388,344 indwallers in the 2005 census. Ahome (population 10,840) is the name o the seicont-lairgest commonty in the municipality. The municipal seat is the port ceety o Los Mochis, its lairgest commonty. It is the third maist important municipality in the state o Sinaloa, an is a commercial corridor tae the northwast o the kintra. It is situatit on the Paceefic coastal plain, at the entrance o the Guwf o Californie an lees in the hert o a rich agricultural region, el Valle de Fuerte (Valley o Fuerte River). It staunds at .

 Major commonties 
Ahome
Higuera de Zaragoza
Los Mochis
San Miguel Zapotitlán
Topolobampo

 Municipal History 
1605 - Foundation o the toun o Ahome, wi the arrival o missionaries led bi Faither Ribas.
1851 - Year o cholera, when the disease claims numerous lives in the region.
1880 - Installation o a succar refinery, a fundamental pillar o the futur ceety.
1901 - Openin o the Kansas City Mexico & Oriente Railway company in Topolobampo.
1902 - Durin the whole year, the bubonic plague devastates the region.
1903 Foondation o Los Mochis.
1904 - Creation o the toun o Ahome la Junta Separatista (Separatist Committee), which seeks separation frae the municipality o El Fuerte (the Fort) an the creation o Ahome.
1914 - Felipe Bachomo takes la Villa de Ahome (Village o Ahome) bi violent force.
1917 - La Villa de Ahome is designatit municipal seat o the new municipality.
1935 - The ceety cooncil chynges the municipal seat tae Los Mochis.

 Presidentes Municipales 
1948 - 1950: Francisco Ceballos - ane o the best preses due tae his contreibutions tae the municipality, includin the heich-gate atween Los Mochis an Ahome an atween Los Mochis an Topolobampo
1951 - 1953: Samuel C. Castro
1954 - 1956: Armando Guerrero
1947 - 1959: Miguel León López
1960 - 1962: Antonio López Bojórquez
1963 - 1965: Alfonso Calderón Velarde
1966 - 1968: Canuto Ibarra Guerrero
1969 - 1971: Ernesto Ortegón
1972 - 1974: Nicanor Villareal
1975 - 1977: Oscar Monzón
1978 - 1980: Oscar Aguilar Pereira
1981 - 1983: Jaime Ibarra
1984 - 1986: Felipe Moreno Rosales
1987 - 1989: Ernesto Álvarez Nolasco
1990 - 1992: Ramón Ignacio Rodrigo Castro
1993 - 1995: Federico Careaga
1996 - 1998: Francisco López Brito
1999 - 2001: Esteban Valenzuela García
2002 - 2004: Mario López Valdez
2005 - 2007: Policarpo Infante Fierro
2008 - 2010: Esteban Valenzuela García

 References 
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005  INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Sinaloa  Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

 Freemit airtins 
Municipio de Ahome Offeecial wabsteid
http://www.sinaloa.gob.mx/conociendo/municipios/ahome.htm 

Category:Municipalities o Sinaloa
Category:Populatit places established in 1605