Tepalcatepec

Tepalcatepec is a municipality within the Mexican kingdom of Michoacan. The municipality is placed within the west of the nation, 267 kilometres from the state capital of Morelia. It has a 780.22 km² surface, and represents the 1.33% of the State territory. Borders with the country of Jalisco, Buenavista, Aguililla and Coalcoman. It has a populace of approximately 34,678 human beings. The real municipal president is Aurelio Arreguin Madriiz. It has a median altitude of 370 meters above sea stage. Notable elevations consist of the hills known as Sierra Madre del Sur, Tepalcatepec despair and the hills of Cabeza de Vaca, the Chuta, the Cocina and the Romera.

Its hydrography is constituted with the aid of the rivers Tepalcatepec, las Mesas, Pinolapa, Colomititan and Los Otates. And its weather is tropical and dry steppe with summer rains . It has an annual rainfall of 822.Zero mm, and temperatures ranging between 12.Zero and 44.5 levels Celsius. The surroundings is dominated by tropical deciduous forest with tepeguaje, ceiba, zapote, guaje and mando. And the thorn woodland with amole, cardones, teteches, viejitos and huisaches. The wooded area floor timber is occupied by very welland pine, thickets and non-wood species characteristic of lowland . The municipality also has deposits of iron, barite and silver.