Tuzantla is a municipality in the eastern part of the

Mexican Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...

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 1,018.49 square kilometres (1.73% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipalities of

Jungapeo Jungapeo is a municipality in the eastern part of the Mexican 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, to the east ...

and Hidalgo, to the east by Juárez and

Susupuato Susupuato is a municipality in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 273.33 square kilometres (0.46% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Juárez, to the e ...

, to the south by

Tiquicheo Tiquicheo de Nicolás Romero is a municipality located in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 1,429.65 square kilometres (4.89% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Tzitzio, ...

and the state of Guerrero, and to the west by

and

Tzitzio Tzitzio is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán, located approximately southeast of the state capital of Morelia. Geography The municipality of Tzitzio is located in the Balsas Depression in northeast Michoacán at an elevation be ...

. The municipality had a population of 15,302 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name. In Pre-Columbian times, the area was inhabited by

Aztecs The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those g ...

. Its name, ''Tuzantla'', is a word of

Nahuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...

origin that means "Place where gophers are abundant".

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Municipalities of Michoacán {{Michoacán