Coahuayana is a

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located in the southwest region of the Mexican

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of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 362.34 square kilometres (0.61% of the surface of the state)Michoacán
''Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México''. Retrieved on October 8, 2007 and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Chinicuila, to the south by Aquila and the

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, and to the west and northwest by the state of

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. The municipality had a population of 11,632 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name. Coahuayana is a word of

Náhuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have small ...

origin that means "Place Where Trees and

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are Abundant".

References

Cultura y Magia en las narraciones orales de Coahuayana / Gloria Vergara Mendoza http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=31601704 Municipalities of Michoacán {{Michoacán-geo-stub