La Huacana Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán . It has a population of 32,757. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name .
7-614: La Huacana may refer to La Huacana Municipality La Huacana, La Huacana , place in La Huacana Municipality La Huacana, San Lucas , place in San Lucas Municipality, Michoacán [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
14-417: Is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Nuevo Urecho and Ario , to the east by Turicato , to the south by Churumuco and Arteaga , and to the west by Múgica and Apatzingán . Its distance from the state capital Morelia is 161 kilometers. Its surface area is 1,951.91 km , representing 3.32% of the whole state. Its orography is composed of southern foothills of the transverse volcanic system,
21-532: Is mostly made up of pine, oak, shrubbery of different types and hydrophilic vegetation. During the wars before the Spaniards arrived, this place was conquered by the Tarascan state , by the successors of Tariacuri: Hiquingare, Tangaxuan and Hirepan. These rulers, in order to ensure the payment of tribute , appointed Cupauxanti as chieftain. In the 16th century, with the arrival of the Spaniards, shortly after
28-463: The conquest of Apatzingan , La Huacana became an encomienda under Juan Pantoja. In 1789 Jose Maria Morelos was the curate of the parish of Tamacuaro de la Aguacana. In 1795, the volcano Jorullo erupted, seriously affecting the village. On 20 November 1861, the State Congress decreed the creation of the municipality of La Huacana, but this was subsequently reversed. The municipality
35-487: The hills of Las Canoas, La Copa, El Estribo, La Sierrita and El Milpillas. Features of its hydrography are the rivers Huamito, Pastoria and Capirio, and the streams Zapiero, San Pedro Jorullo and San Antonio. The municipality contains Zicuiran dam and some cold water springs and one hot water spring. Its weather is tropical with summer rains and in other parts it is dry steppe. It has an annual rainfall of 800.0 mm and temperatures ranging from 10 to 54 degrees Celsius. Its forest
42-479: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Huacana&oldid=932955270 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages La Huacana Municipality Huacana is a word of Chichimeca origin that means "Place of Dresses". Another version as to
49-408: The origin of the name is that it was described only as "A place where a grey hair is floated on the water" by an indigenous inhabitant when she was asked the region's name. The municipality has an area of 1,952.60 square kilometres and a population of 32,757 inhabitants according to the 2010 census. La Huacana municipality is located in the southern part of the state 480 meters above sea level, and
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