- Tingambato
Tingambato is a municipality in the north-central part of the Mexican state of
Michoacán . Its municipal seat is the city of the same name. The municipality has an area of 188.77 square kilometres (0.32% of the surface of the state) and is bordered by the north by the municipalites ofNahuatzén andErongarícuaro , to the east byPátzcuaro andSalvador Escalante , to the south byZiracuaretiro , and to the west byUruapan . The municipality had a population of 12,630 inhabitants according to the 2005 census [Cite web | url=http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ | title=2005 Census | work=INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática | accessdate=2007-10-04] . Its municipal seat is the city of the same name.The word Tingambato is of
Chichimeca origin and it means "Hill of mild climate". [ [http://www.municipiosmich.gob.mx/tingambato/index.php Municipios de Michoacán] "Portal de los municipios: Tingambato". Retrieved onOctober 4 ,2007 .] The story of the region can be traced 1,300 years to the arrival of theP'urhépecha monarchy to the region.References
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