- Tarímbaro
Tarímbaro is a municipality in the Mexican state of
Michoacán whichValtazar Gaona is the major of. The municipality has an area of 258.57 square kilometres (0.43% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north byCopándaro ,Meson Nuevo andCuitzeo , to the east by Álvaro Obregón, to the south byMorelia and Charo, and to the west by Chucándiro. The municipality had a population of 51,479 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=2007-09-19] Its municipal seat is the city of the same name.
The economy of the municipality is mostly based on agriculture and ranching.
In
pre-Hispanic times the region of present day Tarímbaro was inhabited by the semi-nomadic Chichimeca (who knew the area "place of the willows") and theP'urhépecha people of Central Mexico.References
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