Peribán 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 western part of the
Mexican state of
Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 331.87 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of
Los Reyes, to the east by
Uruapan
Uruapan is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located at the western edge of the Purépecha highlands, just to the east of the Tierra Caliente region. Since the colonial period, it has been an important city economic ...
, to the southeast by
Tancítaro, to the south by
Buenavista, and to the west by the state of
Jalisco. The municipality had a population of 20,965 inhabitants according to the 2005 census.
Its municipal seat is the city of Peribán de Ramos.
In
pre-Columbian
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...
times Peribán was inhabited by Cuitlatec-speaking people who knew the area as "Place Where They Sew".
References
Municipalities of Michoacán
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