Zitacuaro

Zitacuaro, formally called Heroica Zitacuaro, is a town in the Mexican nation of Michoacan. The metropolis is the administrative centre for the encircling municipality of the equal name, which lies at the acute japanese side of Michoacan and borders on the adjoining kingdom of Mexico. The metropolis said a population of 185,534 inside the 2010 census. The municipality has an area of 498 km². Zitauaro stands at 19°26′N 100°22′W, inside the northeast corner of Michoacan, a few a hundred and fifty km east of nation capital Morelia, at an elevation of one,942 metres above sea degree.

The municipality covers a complete of 498 km² and is tired via the Río Zitacuaro, the Río San Andre, and the Ri San Juan Viejo. The surrounding terrain is often the pine-covered mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental; to the north of Zitacuaro are the famed Mexican wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly. In 1995 the municipality mentioned a total populace of one hundred forty five,500 inhabitants, accounting for three.1% of the nation's overall population. Of those, some three,740 humans spoke an indigenous language.