Minatitlán is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

of the Mexican state of

Colima Colima, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, is among the 31 states that make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima. Colima is a small state of western Mexico on the cen ...

. Its municipal seat is the city of

Minatitlán, Colima Minatitlán is a town in the Mexican state of Colima. It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding Minatitlán Municipality.

. Its principal economic activities are farming, ranching and

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

. Minatitlán borders the state of

Jalisco Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by s ...

to the northwest, the municipality of Manzanillo to the southwest, and the municipalities of

Coquimatlán Coquimatlán is a city and seat of the municipality of Coquimatlán, in the Mexican state of Colima. As of 2005, it had a population of 11,374.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía The National Institute of Statistics and Geography ...

Villa de Álvarez Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez is a city in the Mexican state of Colima. It is the municipal seat of Villa de Álvarez municipality. The city is adjacent to the northwest side of the state capital city of Colima and the two can be considered as " ...

, and

Comala f''or the pseudonymous artist, see Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel'' Comala () is a town and municipality located in the Mexican state of Colima, near the state capital of Colima, being the northernmost and second smallest municipality in Colima ...

to the southeast. The municipality is Mexico's largest single source of iron ore.

Climate

References

External links

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Minatitlán, Colima
''Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México'',

INAFED The Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal (''National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development'', better known by the acronym INAFED) is a decentralised agency of the Mexican federal government. It has respon ...

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Ayuntamiento de Minatitlán, Colima
municipal government website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Minatitlan Municipality, Colima Municipalities of Colima es:Minatitlán (Colima)