Nuevo Urecho is a municipality located in the center 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 330.66 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of

Taretan Taretan is a municipality located in the central part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 185.23 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Ziracuareti ...

, to the east by

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, to the south by La Huacana, and to the west by

Gabriel Zamora Gabriel Zamora is a municipality in the center of the Mexican square kilometres (0.72% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Uruapan and Taretan, to the east by Nuevo Urecho, to ...

. The municipality had a population of 7,722 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name. In pre-Columbian times Urecho was successively habiatated by Chichimecas and then the powerful Purépecha people. Urecho means "Place Located in

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Municipalities of Michoacán {{Michoacán