Tarímbaro is a
municipality in the
Mexican
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state of
Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
.
Valtazar Gaona is the mayor. The municipality has an area of 258.57 square kilometres (0.43% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by
Copándaro Copándaro is a municipality located in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 173.52 square kilometres (0.21% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by Huandacareo and Cuitzeo, to the east and south b ...
,
Meson Nuevo and
Cuitzeo, to the east by
Álvaro Obregón, to the south by
Morelia and
Charo, and to the west by
Chucándiro
Chucándiro is a municipality in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. It has a population of 1,609, 727 people were male, 882 were female. 999 people in the town were literate, 192 people were illiterate. The majority of people in the town are Roman C ...
. The municipality had a population of 51,479 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. 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 the
Purépecha people of Central Mexico.
As of March 3, 2021, the municipality had reported 625 confirmed cases and 77 deaths from the
COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. Five-time mayor Baltazar Gaona Sánchez, 80 (), became victim number 78 on March 5.
References
Municipalities of Michoacán
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