Zacapu (original name Tzacapo Tacanendam, translated to Spanish as "Lugar de Piedras" or "Place of Stones" in English) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the Nahuatzen mountains of north-central Michoacán, Mexico. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Municipalities ( municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative division in Mexico (where the first-level administrative division is the Michoacán formally Michoacán de Ocampo (from Nahuatl Michhuacān "place of the fishermen" is one of the 31 constituent states The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Located near Compandaro Michoacan, the city had a population of 51,386 in the 2005 census and the municipality 70,636. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The municipality has an area of 455. 96 km² (176. 05 sq mi).

Location 19°49′N, 101°48′W, 64 km west-north-west of Morelia. Morelia is the capital of the Mexican state of Michoacán de Ocampo.

Morelos Ave. and Madero Ave. are the main streets in the town. it is very poor town and very polluted Agriculture is the main industry; vegetables, sugarcane, fruit, tobacco are produced. Sugarcane ( Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation of tall perennial grasses (family Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae Tobacco is an Agricultural product recognized as an addictive drug processed from the fresh Leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana.

Sights:

• a Franciscan convent from the 16th century
• Cerro del Tecolote, a mountain
• Angostura Park
• The Crucita; old Tarascan ceremonial center
• Tarejero, a historical site
• The Madroño park
• Zacapu lagoon

References

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• Michoacán Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic A convent is a community of Priests religious brothers religious sisters or Nuns or the building used by the community particularly in the Roman Catholic Church

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