Taretan 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 part of the

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state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * '' Our ...

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 185.23 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of

Ziracuaretiro Ziracuaretiro is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Political entity Ziracuaretiro is located on the central part of the state at 121 km from the state capital of Morelia. It has a territory of 159.93 km² bordering wit ...

, to the east by

Salvador Escalante Santa Clara del Cobre () is a Magical town ( Pueblo Mágico) and municipality located in the center of the state of Michoacán, Mexico, 18 km from Pátzcuaro and 79 km from the state capital of Morelia. While the official name of the mun ...

and Ario, to the south by

Gabriel Zamora Gabriel Zamora is a municipality in the center of the Mexican square kilometres (0.72% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Uruapan and Taretan, to the east by Nuevo Urecho, t ...

and

Nuevo Urecho Nuevo Urecho is a municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 330.66 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Taretan, to t ...

, and to the west by

Uruapan Uruapan is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located at the western edge of the Purépecha highlands, just to the east of the Tierra Caliente region. Since the colonial period, it has been an important city economic ...

The municipality had a population of 12,294 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name.

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Municipalities of Michoacán {{Michoacán-geo-stub