Jungapeo is a
municipality in the eastern part of 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 ...
. 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, to the east by
Juárez and
Zitácuaro
Zitácuaro, officially known as Heroica Zitácuaro, is a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The city is the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name, which lies at the extreme eastern side of Michoacán and bor ...
, to the south by
Tuzantla
Tuzantla is a municipality in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 1,018.49 square kilometres (1.73% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Jungapeo and ...
, and to the west by
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".
External links
Jungapeo
References
Municipalities of Michoacán
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