Antunez

Antunez is a metropolis in the Mexican state of Michoacan de Ocampo, a part of the municipality of Paracuaro, which has the individual of tenure. The vicinity wherein the population of Antunez, fashioned by extensive plains, is currently located, integrated inside the 17th century an in depth hacienda owned with the aid of the Portuguese Gonzalo Antunez Yanez, from whom it owes its name, although the lands modified successively from owners for a long term were considered little much less that are useless for any sort of business exploitation; After the ejidal improvement of the antique haciendas of Lombardy and Nueva Italia, distributed to the peasants by way of the government of Lazaro Cardenas and the development of the irrigation systems of Cupatitzio Cajones, the speedy development of the so-called Llanos de Antunez started.

The development of agriculture and emigration from other components of the country and the usa brought about the inspiration on November 16, 1956 of the ejido Antunez through former President Lazaro Cardenas who devoted himself in my view to the development of the population as a new ejidal model; Land offers made Antunez the 0.33 biggest ejido in Mexico; On February 28, 1957 a decree formally identified the populace as part of the municipality of Paracuaro.