Lake Pátzcuaro
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Lake Pátzcuaro is a lake in the municipality of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.
View from Janitzio Island
Purépecha
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The Purépecha are a group of Indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico, mainly in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro.
Lake Pátzcuaro
…hectares of forest have been lost to logging, fires, fuelwood gathering, and clearance for farming and ranching. The Lake Pátzcuaro basin is home to the Purépecha people. Purépecha leaders established the basin as the heartland of the Tarascan state, which rivaled the Aztec Empire before the Spanish conquest. The towns…
Purépecha children at the 2015 Muestra de Indumentaria Tradicional de Ceremonias y Danzas de Michoacán
"La historia de Michoacán", mural in the Biblioteca Gertrudis Bocanegra, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán (1941-1942)
Fishermen in Lake Pátzcuaro
The Tarascan Village diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum