Sinaloa is a state in western Mexico, located on the Gulf of California and known with Los Mochis as the starting point for the spectacular train rides into Copper Canyon. Topolobampo is a small port city and is located on the Gulf of California. From here you can also take a ferry to La Paz in Baja California Sur. Worth a stop on the rail trip is the town of El Fuerte. This is a picturesque small town and in colonial times was an important center of agriculture and temporary storage for silver, gold and other metals from the mines in the canyons. For a few years El Fuerte was even the capital of the then united states of Sinaloa and Sonora.