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Mazatlán

Mazatlán is a city in Sinaloa state, Mexico, known for its fine beaches. It is a popular vacation and retirement destination for Canadians and Americans. Wikivoyage

Population 441,975 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Mexico

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Mexico

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Mazatlán. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Carnaval de Mazatlán

    February – March

    A five-day festival held in February which is purported to be one of the largest in the world. A large portion of the street in Old Mazatlán is closed down and live bands and vendors fill the streets

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Mazatlán); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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