Piaxtla

The Piaxtla River descends from the Sierra Madre Occidental through deep valleys to the Pacific coast of Sinaloa. Its course connects the mountain mining country with the coastal plain. At San Ignacio de Piaxtla, the river became the scene of fighting during the Mexican War of Independence: on 8 January 1811 royalist forces defeated the insurgent army of José María González Hermosillo as it sought to advance through the region.