Exploring Escuinapa: History, Culture, and Adventure in Sinaloa

Escuinapa is part of the State of Sinaloa in Mexico, also known as the shrimp pearl, it is a rural place full of beautiful landscapes where its main economic activity is fishing and agriculture. Geographically speaking, it borders Nayarit, another beautiful place in Mexico. Escuinapa is located on marshes and wetlands where a very diverse fauna lives, birds, reptiles, different types of mammals and, above all, fish. Shrimp is the crustacean that has made this place famous due to its abundance. This seafood is enormously in demand throughout the world and Escuinapa is an undisputed producer. In what is part of agriculture, beans, chili, tomatoes, corn are planted and above all it is a large producer of mango. Mango has also been a fundamental part of the economic development of this area since there are various packing houses for this fruit, also in high demand around the world, of export quality.

What is the history?
From the Nahuatl Itz-cui-na-pan -Where there are water dogs-, and where according to historians the first conglomerates of people took advantage of the wealth of the area in terms of fishing and agriculture, forming the first town in the region called Ahuchen around there. the years of 1500. Later, due to harassment by pirates, a second settlement called Pueblo Viejo was founded. However, banditry and the social and cultural problems of that time caused new settlements to form a very prominent one called -Izquinapa-, forming part of the province of Chametla, along with the provinces of Sinaloa and the province of Culiacan, which Today it is the State of Sinaloa.