Jungapeo de Juárez
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Jungapeo is a Municipalities of Mexico, municipality in the eastern part of the Mexico, Mexican Mexican state, state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 265.98 square kilometres (0.45% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Tuxpan, Michoacán, Tuxpan, to the east by Juárez Municipality, Michoacán, Juárez and Zitácuaro, to the south by Tuzantla, and to the west by Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán, Hildago. The municipality had a population of 18,571 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of Jungapeo de Juárez. In pre-Columbian times, the region was dominated by the powerful Purépecha people. Jungapeo is a word of Chichimeca origin that means "Yellow Place".


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Municipalities of Michoacán {{Michoacán