[3] In pre-Hispanic times, the toponymy was applied to a stream because it accurately refers to the flow of Badiraguato (also known as Río Chico), which springs from the Sierra de Los Parra or Surutato and also gave its name to the town with signs established on its banks where it passes to join in the foothills of the mountain range in front of the disappeared town of Alicama.

The purple banner of Castile, pierced with a fallen lance, the cross-shaped tree, and the date 1605 symbolize the true conquest of the Badiraguato Valley.

The third quarter in sinople with figures of hills and a pickaxe and shovel establishes the only source of life during the colonial period for the region: the mines.

Badiraguato was a town of belonging to the Tebaca nation, which eventually became part of the province of Culiacan, kingdom of Nueva Galicia in 1621.

Around the year 1599, Jesuit missionary Hernando de Santarén was entrusted with the evangelization of the Indians of the Acaxee nation, which encompassed the entire region currently occupied by the municipality of Badiraguato.

In the history of the conquest of Badiraguato, twenty years later, Don Francisco de Ibarra, known as "The Phoenix of the Conquerors of Sinaloa," emerged.