Ario is a
municipality
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located in the
Mexican
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state
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of
Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
. The municipality has an area of 694.60 square kilometres (1.18% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by
Salvador Escalante, to the east by
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 Codallos.
The city is located at . In the 2020 census, the city's population was 81,105. P ...
and
Turicato
Turicato is a municipality (''municipio'') in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Turicato comes from the word "turicata" that refers to a parasite that lives mainly in areas where there is cattle.
The municipality represents 2.62% of total land in ...
, to the south by
La Huacana, to the west by
Nuevo Urecho, and to the northwest by
Taretán. The municipality had a population of 31,647 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of Ario de Rosales.
In
pre-Columbian
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times region was inhabited by
Purepecha and
Chichimeca
Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajio region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that d ...
people who knew the area as "Place where it was sent", "Place where something was sent to be said", and "Place where one learns to read", respectively.
Marco Antonio Solís
Marco Antonio Solís Sosa (born 29 December 1959) is a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and record producer.
Born and raised in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán, Solís began his musical career at the age of six, performing part of Los Hermanito ...
and the members of the popular musical group
Los Bukis
Los Bukis (The Bukis, ''buki'' translates as ''Little Kid'' in the Yaqui language) are a Mexican Grupera band from Ario de Rosales, Michoacan. In 1973, the band was founded by cousins Marco Antonio Solís and Joel Solís. Their first song was ...
, later changed to
Los Mismos
Los Mismos (English: "The Same Ones"), previously known as Los Bukis, is a Mexican Grupera music band from Ario de Rosales, Michoacán.The Billboard Guide to Tejano and Regional Mexican Music - Page 152 0823076911 Ramiro Burr - 1999 "Los Mismos w ...
after Marco Antonio left the group were born in the municipality of Ario.
Marco Antonio Solís
Univision online ''Biografía''. Retrieved October 4, 2007
References
External links
Ario de Rosales
Municipalities of Michoacán
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