Coahuayana 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 ...

located in the southwest region of the

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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 ...

. 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 Chinicuila is a municipality located in the southwestern region of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 928.64 square kilometres (1.35% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the state of Jalisco, to ...

, to the south by Aquila and the

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, and to the west and northwest by the state of Colima. 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 origin that means "Place Where Trees and Squash 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