Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/El Rosario

EL ROSARIO, a town of Mexico, in the state of Xinoloa, 55 miles east of Mazatlan. At one time its gold and silver mines attracted a large number of diggers, but they are no longer wrought, and it is now of importance chiefly as a depôt for the trade with Mazatlan and the interior. Population about 5000.