Abasolo is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 city (and municipality

Municipalities of Guanajuato

The Mexican state of Guanajuato is divided into 46 municipalities :- References :*Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía : «Principales resultados por localidad 2005 » ....

) located in the Southeast region of the state of Guanajuato

Guanajuato

Guanajuato officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato....

. The municipality has an area of 601.73 square kilometres (1.98% of the surface of the state), and is bordered to the north by Pueblo Nuevo

Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato

Pueblo Nuevo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Its borders are Salamanca, Irapuato, Valle de Santiago, Abasolo. It is the home town of the famous J. Carmen Villanueva.-References:* at ordenjuridico.gob.mx *...

 and Valle de Santiago

Valle de Santiago

Valle de Santiago is a municipio in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, and also the name of its largest township and cabecera municipal . The municipality is located in the southern portion of the state in the Bajío region of central Mexico, and has an area of some...

, to the south by the state of Michoacán

Michoacán

Michoacán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia...

 and Huanímaro

Huanímaro

Huanímaro is a Mexican city located in Southwest region of the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 130.57 square kilometres and is bordered to the north and west by Abasolo, to the south by the state of Michoacán, and to the east by Valle de Santiago...

, and to the west by Pénjamo

Pénjamo

Penjamo Hidalgo Cradle, is the City head-board of the homonymous Municipality, one of 46 municipalities of Guanajuato's Mexican state. It is one of the cities with major commercial movement of the State, and is considered to be the major City of the Southwest of the entity and the city number 17...

 and Cuerámaro

Cuerámaro

Cuerámaro is a Mexican city located in Southwest region of the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 254.85 square kilometres and is bordered to the north by Romita, to the east by Abasolo, to the south by Pénjamo, and to the west by Manuel Doblado...

. The municipality had 79,093 inhabitants according to the 2005 census..

In pre-Columbian

Pre-Columbian

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 times the area was known as Cuitzeo or "Place of skunks (Lugar de Zorrillos)", by the mostly P'urhépecha

P'urhépecha

The P'urhépecha, normally spelled Purépecha in Spanish and in English and traditionally referred to as Tarascans, are an indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of the Mexican state of Michoacán, principally in the area of the cities of Uruapan and Pátzcuaro...

 inhabitants.

Abasolo is named after José Mariano Abasolo

Mariano Abasolo

Mariano Abasolo was a Mexican revolutionist, born at Dolores, Guanajuato. He participated in the revolution started by Hidalgo in 1810 and rose to be a major-general. He fought at Puente de Calderón, was taken prisoner by the Spaniards, was tried at Chihuahua, and was sentenced to ten years'...

, a Mexican patriot and leader of Mexico's war of independence against Spain

Spain

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The municipal president of Abasolo and its many smaller outlying communities is Juan Antonio Negrete Martínez.