Santa Clara del Cobre

Santa Clara del Cobre is a Magical town and municipality located in the middle of the nation of Michoaca, Mexico, 18 km from Patzcuaro and 79 km from the nation capital of Morelia. While the official name of the municipality is Salvador Escalante, and the town is often marked as "Villa Escalante" or "Salvador Escalante" on maps, each entities are interchangeably called Santa Clara del Cobre. The metropolis is part of the Patzcuaro area of Michoacan, and ethnically dominated with the aid of the Purepecha human beings. These human beings were working with copper for the reason that pre-Hispanic generation, and caused this city’s dominance in copper crafts over the colonial duration till well into the 19th century.

Economic reverses led to the enterprise’s near-loss of life here till efforts in the Nineteen Forties and Seventies managed to convey the metropolis’s work returned into prominence. Santa Clara del Cobre turned into named a "Pueblo Magico" in 2010. This place, just like the relaxation of the Lake Patzcuaro location, became settled with the aid of the Purépecha people starting from the twelfth century. In this vicinity, the Purepecha founded villages along with Churucumeo, Cuirindicho, Andicua, Huitzila, Taboreca and Itziparatzico with the village closest to the cutting-edge metropolis of Santa Clara del Cobre being Xacuaro.