State of Michoacan

Angangueo

Angangueo is a small cozy town located in the Mexican state of Michoacan. The town of Angangueo is officially called Mineral de Angangueo to distinguish [...]

Ciudad Hidalgo

Ciudad Hidalgo is a city and municipality in the far northeast of the state of Michoacán Ciudad Hidalgo (or simply Hidalgo) is located in a [...]

Cotija de la Paz

Cotija de la Paz is the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Situated in the Mexican state of Michoacan, Cotija de la [...]

Cuitzeo

Cuitzeo (full name Cuitzeo del Porvenir) is a town and municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located in [...]

Lake Pátzcuaro

Lake Pátzcuaro (Lago de Pátzcuaro) is a lake in the state of Michoacán. The lake lies in an endorheic basin, which does not drain into [...]

Lázaro Cárdenas

Lazaro Cardenas is a bustling port city located on the Pacific coast of Mexico, in the state of Michoacan. The city serves as a vital [...]

Monarch Butterfly Reserve

The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve ("Reserva de Biosfera de la Mariposa Monarca") is a World Heritage Site containing most of the over-wintering sites of the [...]

Morelia

Morelia is a city and municipality in the north-central part of the state of Michoacan in central Mexico. The city is the capital and the [...]

Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro

Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro is a small village located in the state of Michoacán, 8 km west of Uruapan, near the Parícutin volcano. The town [...]

Pátzcuaro

Pátzcuaro is a large town and municipality located in the state of Michoacán. The town was founded sometime in the 1320s, at first becoming the [...]

Tacámbaro

Tacámbaro is a municipality located in the central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Its largest city and municipal seat is Heroica Tacámbaro de [...]

Tzintzuntzán

Tzintzuntzán is a small town in Tzintzuntzan Municipality located in the north of Michoacán state, 53 km from the capital of Morelia and 17.5 km [...]

Tzintzuntzán

Tzintzuntzan was the ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Tarascan state capital of the same name. The name comes from the Purépecha word Ts’intsuntsani, which means [...]

Uruapan

Uruapan is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located at the western edge of the Purépecha highlands. Since the [...]

Volcano of Parícutin

Parícutin (or Paricutín) is a cinder cone volcano located in the state of Michoacán. Volcano Paricutín surged suddenly from the cornfield of local farmer Dionisio [...]

Zamora

Zamora de Hidalgo, is a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The 2010 census population was 141,627 making it the third-largest city in the [...]