[3] Professor Héctor R. Olea [4] indicates that Mocorito is a Cáhita term, a variant of "macori-to," composed of macuri, an apocopation of "macorihui," a modification of the term "macoyahuy," referring to a group of Mayo Indians or people who speak a dialect of the Cahita language; additionally, the suffix "to" denotes location, place; the place name means "place of people who speak a dialect of the Cahita language, or where the Mayo Indians or macoritos reside."

The creation of the Estado de Occidente in 1824, joining the provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa, and the internal division of this state into five departments with their respective districts, did not modify the internal situation of the Sinaloan territory with respect to Mocorito, as the department of Culiacán was formed with the district of its name and that of Cosalá, including the region of Mocorito within it, with the boundaries from the river of its name to the Elota River.

[2] During the tenure of mayor Luis Verduzco Leal, the coat of arms for the municipality of Mocorito was created in 1964 by Mr. Miguel Angel Velázquez Tracy.

It was designed in an oval shape, split into four sections, with a border made out of stone to honor the indigenous origin, reflecting their unfamiliarity with metal and featuring footprints oriented from northwest to southeast in greater number and from southeast to northwest in fewer numbers.

The path ends at the convergences of the Humaya and Tamazula rivers with a larger building respresentin city of San Miguel de Culiacán.

In the bottom right section, on a silver background, an indigenous-styled hermitage with the date 1594 signifies the founding of the Mocorito mission.

Monday is the coronation of the Kings and Children ride floats and to close with a flourish, on Tuesday, the traditional walk is performed, to the best allegorical cars and bands are rewarded and culminates with a large popular dance.

The band "Los Hermanos Rubio Mocorito" has toured the country from Tijuana to Mexico City, playing the merry notes of the drum: sones "The Lost Child", "El Toro Viejo", "Brisas de Mocorito", "The Sinaloa "," El Palo Verde "and many more.

Hector Lopez Gamez, painter Mocoritense, majored in Law and Social Sciences obligation, then studied fine arts for fun in a US school.

In the beginning, he focused on portraits of those who managed to make more than three thousand in four years later, mature, he was attracted by the murals that have given popularity with shows in several Mexican states projecting that done in Revolution Park Culiacan and the library of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in Guamúchil.

He was part of a scientific committee that made the study of leprosy and tuberculosis in Sinaloa to the Mexican Academy of Medicine.

Concerned about the village, founded the Ateneo Professor Constancio Rodriguez gave luster to Mocorito in the cultural both regionally and nationally, for its management connection to electricity CFE was achieved.

[5] In Mocorito it is possible to perfectly identify the three climatic regions found in Sinaloa: tropical savannah on the west; mountain in the east and a transition zone in the central area.