Yurécuaro
Yurécuaro | |
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Municipality an toun | |
  Yurécuaro Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 20°16′55″N 102°19′55″W / 20.28194°N 102.33194°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Michoacán |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12.76 km2 (4.93 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 30,487 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
Yurécuaro is a toun an a municipality in the region o the Chapala cienega at the north-wast in the Mexican state o Michoacán.
Yurécuaro comes frae the purepecha iorekuarhu means "river side" or "place o growin" "lugar junto al rio" o "Lugar de crecientes".
It is locatit at northwast o the state, in a hicht o 1530 metres (5065 ft) on the level o the sea.
It limits tae the north wi the state o Jalisco separatit bi the Lerma river, at wast wi La Piedad, at sooth wi Ecuandureo an tae the sootheast wi Tanhuato. The distance tae the state caipital Morelia is 125 mile an tae Guadalajara is 85 mile.
The ceety wis foondit 22 Mey 1559 bi Viceroy Don Luis de Velasco. This toun haes some o the maist bonnie crystal an siller jewelry.
Transportation
- Road state 110 east tae La Piedad wast La Barca
- Road Yurecuaro-La concepcion Jalisco
- Suin tollwey Zamora-Yurecuaro
- Train Mexico-Guadalajara an Yurecuaro-Zamora
Freemit airtins
- yurecuaro.net Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
- yurecuaro.com Archived 2021-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
 State o Michoacán | ||
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Morelia (caipital) | ||
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