Editing Sinaloa (section)

==Etymology==
''Sinaloa'' combines two words from the [[Cahita language]]: {{lang|mfy|sina}} ('[[pithaya]] plant'), and {{lang|mfy|lobola}} ('rounded'); "sinalobola" was shortened to "sinaloa".<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/cham/learn/historyculture/sinaloa.htm Sinaloa, National Park Service]</ref> This most popular etymology is attributed to [[Eustaquio Buelna]]. Another etymology attributed to Pablo Lizárraga is Mexica ''cintli'' ('dry corn and cob') and ''ololoa'' ('to pile up'), and to locative, "where they pile up or store corn on the cob." Yet another etymology from Héctor R. Olea combinsa Cahia ''sina'' with the locative "ro" from the [[Purépecha language]] and "a" from Aztec ''atl'' ('water'), thus "place of pithayas in the water.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sinaloa.gob.mx/NR/exeres/B1FB61DE-82E5-4EE7-AE7E-851D47307AF3,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published|title=Municipio de Sinaloa de Leyva|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716221737/http://www.sinaloa.gob.mx/NR/exeres/B1FB61DE-82E5-4EE7-AE7E-851D47307AF3,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published|archivedate=16 July 2007|accessdate=4 May 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>