• Tzintzuntzan may refer to: Tzintzuntzan (Mesoamerican site), a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico, former capital of the Tarascan state Tzintzuntzan...
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    Tzintzuntzan (Spanish pronunciation: [tsin'tsuntsan]) is a town in Tzintzuntzan Municipality located in the north of Michoacán state, 53 km from the capital...
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    Tzintzuntzan was the ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Purépecha capital of the same name. The name comes from the Purépecha word Ts’intsuntsani,...
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    empire called the Irecha or Cazonci. The Purépecha capital was located at Tzintzuntzan on the banks of Lake Pátzcuaro and, according to Purépecha oral tradition...
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  • Tzintzuntzan Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The seat is Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán. As municipal seat, the town of Tzintzuntzan...
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    the Lake Pátzcuaro–Tzintzuntzan–Quiroga area, which was the center of the Purépecha Empire; as well as the location of the Tzintzuntzan yácata pyramids....
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    yet 79% of the inhabitants of Pátzcuaro, Erongarícuaro, Quiroga, and Tzintzuntzan live in poverty and 40% in extreme poverty. In the watershed surrounding...
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    emissaries to the Spanish victors. A few Spaniards returned with them to Tzintzuntzan where they were presented to Tangáxuan and gifts were exchanged. The...
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    The next day, a Spanish warrior named Cristobal de Olid approached Tzintzuntzan with a large troop of soldiers. She had promised a Purépecha man named...
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    of the Ihuatzio town, in the Tzintzuntzan municipality. The ancient site is some 7 kilometers south-east of Tzintzuntzan, on the south-eastern shore of...
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