Yurécuaro is a town and a municipality in the region of the Chapala cienega at the north-west in the Mexican state of Michoacán,[1] at a height of 1530 meters (5065 ft) above sea level.

Its limits to the north with the state of Jalisco separated by the Lerma river, at west with La Piedad, at south with Ecuandureo and to the southeast with Tanhuato.

Yurécuaro comes from the Purepecha iorekuarhu meaning "riverside" or "place of growing".

The city was founded May 22, 1559 by Viceroy Don Luis de Velasco.

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