Patzcuaro
Patzcuaro is a town in the Lake Patzcuaro area of the Mexican state of Michoacan. A lovely mountain town, Patzcuaro is colonial Mexico at its most enchanting.Photo: Iedyweb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 55,300 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Pátzcuaro, State of Michoacán, Mexico
- Also known as: “Antigua Valladolid” and “Pátzcuaro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, Pátzcuaro.
Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, Pátzcuaro
Church
Photo: Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, Pátzcuaro is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ihuatzio.
Ihuatzio
Village
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ihuatzio is a small, traditionally Purhepecha indigenous town on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in Michoacan, Mexico. The town is known for its archaeological site with 1,000-year-old ruins that were occupied by two different pre-Hispanic indigenous cultures. Ihuatzio is situated 6 km north of Patzcuaro.
Patzcuaro
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.5137° or 19° 30′ 49″ northLongitude
-101.61° or 101° 36′ 36″ westPopulation
55,300Elevation
2,152 metres (7,060 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX PZOOpen location code
75FWG97R+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 269914565OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Patzcuaro” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Пацкуара”
- Catalan: “Pátzcuaro”
- Cebuano: “Pátzcuaro (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Pátzcuaro”
- Chechen: “Паскуаро (Паскуаро, Мичоакан)”
- Chechen: “Паскуаро”
- Chinese: “帕茨夸罗”
- Croatian: “Pátzcuaro”
- Danish: “Pátzcuaro”
- Dutch: “Patzcuaro”
- Dutch: “Pátzcuaro”
- Esperanto: “Pátzcuaro”
- French: “Patzcuaro”
- French: “Pátzcuaro”
- Georgian: “პაცკუარო (მუნიციპალიტეტი)”
- Georgian: “პაცკუარო”
- German: “Patzcuaro”
- German: “Pátzcuaro”
- Irish: “Pátzcuaro”
- Italian: “Pátzcuaro”
- Japanese: “パツクァロ”
- Japanese: “パツクアロ”
- Japanese: “パッヅクアーロ”
- Korean: “파트스쿠아로”
- Ladino: “Patzcuaro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Patzcuaro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pátzcuaro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pátzcuaro”
- Polish: “Pátzcuaro”
- Portuguese: “Patzcuaro”
- Portuguese: “Pátzcuaro”
- Russian: “Пацкуаро”
- Sardinian: “Patzcaru”
- Sardinian: “Pátzcuaro”
- Serbian: “Паскуаро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pátzcuaro, Michoacán”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pátzcuaro”
- Silesian: “Pátzcuaro (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Pátzcuaro”
- Slovenian: “Patzcuaro”
- Slovenian: “Pátzcuaro”
- Spanish: “Patzcuaro”
- Spanish: “Pátzcuaro”
- Swedish: “Pátzcuaro”
- Tatar: “Паскуаро (Паскуаро, Мичоакан)”
- Tatar: “Паскуаро”
- Thai: “ปัตซ์กวาโร”
- Thai: “ปัตซ์กัวโร”
- Turkish: “Pátzcuaro”
- Ukrainian: “Пацкуаро”
- Uzbek: “Pátzcuaro”
- Vietnamese: “Pátzcuaro”
- “Patzcuaro”
- “Pátzcuaro”
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