Clara

Clara is a Magical city and municipality placed inside the middle of the nation of Michoacan, Mexico, 18 km from Patzcuaro and 79 km from the kingdom capital of Morelia. While the official name of the municipality is Salvador Escalante and the city is often marked as Villa Escalante or Salvador Escalante on maps, both entities are interchangeably known as Santa Clara del Cobre. The city is a part of the Patzcuaro region of Michoacan and ethnically dominated with the aid of the Purepecha people.

These human beings have been running with copper for the reason that pre-Hispanic technology, and led to this metropolis’s dominance in copper crafts over the colonial period 1519 to 1821 till properly into the 19th century. Economic reverses caused the enterprises near demise here till efforts within the 1940s and 1970s managed to bring the metropolis’s work back into prominence. This place, like the rest of the Lake Patzcuaro area, changed into settled with the aid of the Purepecha humans starting from the 12th century.