Cojumatlán de Régules is a
municipality
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in the
Mexican state
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of
Michoacán
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. It is located west of the state capital of
Morelia
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.
Geography
The municipality of Cojumatlán de Régules is located in the
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
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in northwest Michoacán at an altitude between . It borders the Michoacano municipalities of
Venustiano Carranza
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to the east,
Sahuayo to the southeast,
Jiquilpan to the south,
Marcos Castellanos to the southwest. It also borders
Tizapan El Alto in
Jalisco
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to the west, while its northern border runs along the southeastern shore of
Lake Chapala
Lake Chapala (, ) has been Mexico's largest freshwater lake since the desiccation of Lake Texcoco in the early 17th century.
It borders both the states of Jalisco and Michoacán, being located within the municipalities of Ocotlán, Jalisco, ...
, which is administered by the Jaliscan municipality of
Poncitlán
Poncitlán is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 672.31 km2.
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 43,817.
Place Names
Poncitlán means "place of cilacayotes", ...
.
The municipality covers an area of
[ and comprises 0.2% of the state's area.][
Cojumatlán's climate is temperate with rain in the summer.][ Average temperatures in the municipality range between , and average annual precipitation ranges between .][
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History
The settlement of Cojumatlán was founded in 1531. Its name means "place of weasels", from the Nahuatl
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word ''cutzamalí'', "weasel".[ It was incorporated as the municipality of Régules in the district of Jiquilpan on 2 April 1910, taking its name after Nicolás de Régules, a general who fought against the French intervention in Mexico. In 1985 the municipality changed its name to Cojumatlán de Régules.
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Administration
The municipal government comprises a president, a councillor (Spanish
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: ''síndico''), and seven trustees (''regidores''), four elected by relative majority and three by proportional representation
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.[ The current president of the municipality is Enrique Mújica Sánchez.][
]
Demographics
In the 2010 Mexican Census, the municipality of Cojumatlán de Régules recorded a population of 9980 inhabitants living in 2638 households.[
There are 14 localities in the municipality,][ of which only the municipal seat, also known as Cojumatlán de Régules, is classified as urban. It recorded a population of 6763 inhabitants in the 2010 Census.][
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Economy
The main economic activities in Cojumatlán de Régules are agriculture, fishing, and livestock production.maquiladora
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s.[
The arrival of thousands of ]American white pelican
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Taxonomy
The Americ ...
s from November to March at the fishing village of Petatán has become a tourist attraction. The pelicans are dubbed ''borregones'' by the locals, in reference to the sheep-like flocks created by these large white birds. A mass feeding of fish scraps from the local filleting operations occurs in the afternoon of every day except Sundays.
References
{{Michoacán, state=collapsed
Municipalities of Michoacán
1910 establishments in Mexico
States and territories established in 1910