Zitacuaro

Zitacuaro, officially known as Heroica Zitacuaro, is a city within the Mexican country of Michoacan. The town is the administrative centre for the encompassing municipality of the identical name, which lies at the extreme eastern aspect of Michoacán and borders at the adjacent state of Mexico. The city reported a populace of 185,534 inside the 2010 census. The municipality has a place of 498 km². The municipality covers a total of 498 km² and is tired via the Río Zitácuaro, the Rio San Andres, and the Rio San Juan Viejo. The surrounding terrain is mostly the pine-blanketed 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 population of a hundred forty five,500 population, accounting for three.1% of the kingdom's general population. Of those, a few three,740 humans spoke an indigenous language. Zitacuaro is an vital intermediate factor on Federal Highway 15, which runs from Mexico City to Morelia. Another road branches off in the town en path for Huetamo, Ciudad Altamirano, and the Pacific Ocean coast. A railways leads northwards to Maravatio. Other towns and villages inside the municipality are: Aputzio de Juarez, Crescencio Morales, Curungueo, San Felipe de los Alzati, and Zirahuato.