inhabitants.
In 1814 Fernando VII repealed the constitution but it was reinstalled in 1820, and the first municipalities in Sinaloa were founded.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Mazatlán was a native fishing village located north of Cerro de la Aduana. In 1821 it was declared a first port of Mazatlan on Mexico's Pacific height.
Jurisdictionally, Mazatlan remained dependent on the sub-delegation of San Sebastian unaffected by the divisions between the states of Sonora and Sinaloa, in 1824 they got together to form the State of West. After the imposition of new internal division of five departments and municipalities divided into parties, Mazatlan was in the department of San Sebastian, which was formed with the parties of its name, San Ignacio and the Rosary, with a limit to the River of Reeds .
In 1830 he decreed the dissolution of the West in two states. The first constitution of the state of Sinaloa, promulgated on December 12, 1831 divided the territory into eleven districts with their respective parties, leaving the district town of La Union separated from Concord and San Ignacio.
According to the French navigator Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars a Spanish banker named Machado, through its commercial activities, gave impetus to that village to make in 1836 in a village where they lived between four and five thousand people, and then became the largest port in the Mexican Pacific.
Invasions
Between 1848 and 1849, Mazatlan was invaded by the U.S. military. Then in 1859 the port was blockaded by the British warship Amethyst. On November 13, 1864 the French Army and the Imperialist forces took possession of Mazatlan, until they were deported on 13 November 1866 by the forces of General Ramón Corona. After customs officials seized twenty-three ounces of gold to the payer of British warship Chanticleer,the June 18, 1868 he blockaded the port, and its captain, William H. Bridge, threatened to
