It has a territory of 159.93 km2 bordering with Tingambato, Santa Clara, Taretan and Uruapan municipalities, the meaning of the name is: "the place where the warmth ends and the cold starts"[2] It has an average altitude of 1,380 meters above the sea level and it also has a tropical climate in summer and the temperature ranges between 8.0 and 37.0 Celsius degrees.

Typical fauna includes deer, rabbit, fox, squirrel, crow, guacamaya, badger, coyote, sparrow and peckerwood.

[2] Ziracuaretiro means: "the place where the warmth ends and the cold starts".

It was settled years before the arrival of the Spanish people, because of the nature and for the ease to plant fruits.

Don Vasco de Quiroga planted 5 different species of bananas which were taken from the island of Santo Domingo.