San Lucas is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 located in the Mexican 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...

. The municipality has an area of 474.41 square kilometres (0.30% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Tiquicheo

Tiquicheo

Tiquicheo de Nicolás Romero is a municipality located in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 1,429.65 square kilometres and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Tzitzio, to the east by Tuzantla and the state of México, to the south by San Lucas, Huetamo and...

, to the east and south by the state of Guerrero

Guerrero

Guerrero officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo....

, and to the west by Huetamo

Huetamo

Huetamo is a municipality in the southeastern corner of the Mexican state of Michoacán, in a region known as "Tierra Caliente" . Of indigenous Purepecha Indian origin, the word "Huetamo" means "four chiefs" or "four came". Fr...

. The municipality had a population of 16,953 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name.

San Lucas is located in what was once known as Turipécuaro, or "Place of Mourning" in Tarascan.

Localities

• San Lucas - the municipal seat
• Angao- Angao, Michoacan is a small town near San Lucas. Its main activity is agriculture.Its main products are: mangoes, corn and lemons. Here are two videos from the town provided by Y. Chavez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSuGRAEJ44, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYGre3TYOw, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngOPV49V00A
• San Pedro
• Tacupa
• Riva Palacio
• Tamarindo

External links

• San Lucas, Michoacán
• http://e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/michoacan/mpios/16077a.htm [Spanish]