Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo             

     Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo

Coat of Arms

  

Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico

Presentation of Michoacán de Ocampo:

Official name: Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo / Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo                                                                                                                          

Short-form names: Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo / State of Michoacán de Ocampo; Michoacán de Ocampo; Michoacán

Meaning of the name: Michoacán derives from the nahuatl words "Michi" means fish, and "can" that means place, so Michoacán may be translated as "place of fishermen","place of fish abundance", or "place of fish". Daniel Rosas, February 19, 2002.

Location: Coastal Mexican state located in the Western-Center part of the country. It lays the States of: Coahuila and Jalisco (W); Guanajuato, and Querétaro de Arteaga (N); México (E); and Guerrero (S). It is bathed by the Pacific Ocean (SW).

Area: 58,200 km²

Municipalities: 113.

Population: 3'985,667 inhabitants

Capital: Morelia (Pop.: 620,532 -2000-)

Statehood: January 31, 1824.

Arms adopted: Unknown date.

Note: Michoacán de Ocampo has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat  of arms is broadly used:                      

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