Tarímbaro is a
municipality
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in the
Mexican state
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of
Michoacán.
Valtazar Gaona is the mayor. The municipality has an area of 258.57 square kilometres (0.43% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by
Copándaro,
Meson Nuevo and
Cuitzeo
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, to the east by
Álvaro Obregón
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, to the south by
Morelia
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and
Charo
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, and to the west by
Chucándiro. The municipality had a population of 51,479 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name. The economy of the municipality is mostly based on agriculture and ranching.
In
pre-Hispanic
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times the region of present-day Tarímbaro was inhabited by the semi-
nomadic
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Chichimeca
Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajio region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that d ...
(who knew the area "place of the willows") and the
Purépecha people
The Purépecha (endonym pua, P'urhepecha ) are a group of indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico, mainly in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro.
They are also known by the pejorative " Tarascan ...
of Central Mexico.
As of March 3, 2021, the municipality had reported 625 confirmed cases and 77 deaths from the
COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
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The virus was confirmed to ha ...
. Five-time mayor Baltazar Gaona Sánchez, 80 (), became victim number 78 on March 5.
References
Municipalities of Michoacán
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