Zacapu
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Zacapu (Place of Stones), is a city and surrounding municipality in the Nahuatzen mountains[1] of Michoacán, Mexico. It is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. The municipality has an area of Script error: No such module "convert".. Geographic features in Zacapu include the Cerro del Tecolote mountain range and Zacapu Lagoon.
Demographics
The 2010 Mexican census indicated that the city had a population of 52,806 and the municipality a population of 73,455.[2]
Notable people
- José Ángel Aguilar, writer
- Rudy Gutierrez, noted oncologist
- Juan B. Guido, poet
- Fray Jacobo Daciano, Danish Franciscan priest, member of the Tzintzuntzan convent
- Primo Tapia de la Cruz, labor leader who organized farming communities against landholders. He was assassinated in 1926.
- Abel Alcázar Pallares, philanthropist and community activist
- Armando Martínez (cyclist), cyclist
- Rodolfo Vitela, cyclist
- Jorge del Pozzo, businessman
- César Martínez, boxer
- Adolfo García Trujillo, marathonist
- Eugenio Calderón, professional footballer, played for Cruz Azul, Morelia, Irapuato, Tigres and Guadalajara. Retired in 1992.
- Jaime Contreras, artist, designer, welder, semi-professional footballer.
- Hugo Ayala Castro, professional footballer, play for Morelia, Atlas and currently Tigres.
References
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External links
- Michoacán, Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
- Zacapu.com, website from Zacapu city (in Spanish)
- Zacapu.gob.mx, Zacapu municipal government website (in Spanish)