Acuitzio Municipality is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

located in the central region of the Mexican

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Geography

The municipality has an area of 180.13 square kilometres (0.30% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north and northwest by

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, to the east by

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, to south by

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, and to the southwest by Huiramba Municipality.

Demographics

The municipality had a population of 10,052 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of

Acuitzio del Canje Acuitzio Municipality is a municipality located in the central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Geography The municipality has an area of 180.13 square kilometres (0.30% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north and no ...

History

A religious center near Acuitzio named Coatepec was founded by the

Aztecs The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl l ...

sometime in the 12th century. It is believed that the Aztecs abandoned the center to migrate to a place their Gods had mandated. Acuitzio is a word of

Purépecha The Purépecha (endonym pua, P'urhepecha ) are a group of indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico, mainly in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro. They are also known by the pejorative " Tarascan ...

origin that means "Place of the snakes".Acuitzio-Pátzcuaro
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Climate

References

''Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México'' (

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