Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares is a municipality located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range, in the southwest region of the state of Michoacán in central-western Mexico.
The municipality has an area of 2,881.57 square kilometres (4.89% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the state of Jalisco and the municipality of Tepalcatepec, to the east by Arteaga and Aguililla, to the south by Aquila, and to the west by Chinicuila. The municipality had a population of 18,156 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name.
Coalcomán is a word of Nahuatl origin that means "Snake" or "Snake with Hands", according to some authors.
See also
- Coalcomán River
- Sierra Madre del Sur topics
- Municipalities of Michoacán
18°47′N 103°10′W / 18.783°N 103.167°W / 18.783; -103.167
References
Michoacán Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Retrieved on October 8, 2007 http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/EMM_Michoacan ↩
"2005 Census". INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. Archived from the original on 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2007-10-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20130406130712/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ ↩
Aguililla, Michoacán Archived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine Pueblo Náhuatl. Retrieved on October 8, 2007 http://www.aguilillamich.com/Aguilillamich/AGUILILLA/HISTORIA/HISTORIA/HIST.html ↩