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Agua Caliente de Gárate

town in Concordia Municipality, State of Sinaloa, Mexico

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ49842821 ↗
Source-derived summary

Agua Caliente de Gárate is a mexican town located in the boundary of the municipality of Concordia, Sinaloa.

It has a population of 1692.

It is best known for the local church building located next to the plaza.

Like with the rest of Sinaloa, the population is mostly made up of Roman Catholics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Agua Caliente de Gárate” is town in Concordia Municipality, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Agua, Caliente and Gárate, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1692—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Agua, Caliente and Gárate is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “town in Concordia Municipality, State of Sinaloa, Mexico” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q49842821. Authority coordinates are 23.163, -106.086. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1692.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Agua Caliente de Gárate”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Agua Caliente de Gárate primary sources, Agua Caliente de Gárate archive and Agua research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Agua Caliente de Gárate”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Agua Caliente de Gárate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.