Gabriel Zamora is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the center of the Mexican square kilometres (0.72% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Nuevo Parangaricutiro,

Uruapan Uruapan is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located at the western edge of the Purépecha highlands, just to the east of the Tierra Caliente region. Since the colonial period, it has been an important city economic ...

and

Taretan Taretan is a municipality located in the central part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 185.23 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Ziracuareti ...

, to the east by Nuevo Urecho, to the south by Múgica, and to the west by

Parácuaro Parácuaro is a municipality of Michoacán, Mexico. It is a Purépecha word for "place that has sticks for a roof". History In the Pre-Hispanic era, Parácuaro is thought to have been inhabited by Nahuas and later conquered by chief Tarasco Ut ...

. The municipality had a population of 19,876 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of Lombardía. Before having its name change to Gabriel Zamora, the municipality was known as a Hacienda de La Zanja. It was purchased by Dante Cusi and renamed Lombardia, after his native región of Lombardía, Italy.Pureco Ornelas, Alfredo. ''Empresarios lombardos en Michoacán. La familia Cusi entre el porfiriato y la posrevolución (1884-1938)''. Publisher El Colegio de Michoacán A.C. / Instituto Mora, 2010. In 1993, the municipality was and remains named after Gabriel Zamora, a Mexican farm worker,

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, and

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activist.

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