Zinapecuaro

Zinapecuaro was a settlement in the hills northeast of Lake Cuitzeo in present-day Michoacan. Its name meant place of obsidian or healing in Purépecha, and the nearby Ucareo valley supplied obsidian across Mesoamerica.

The Purépecha Empire of Hirepan and his successors absorbed the district and built a temple to the mother goddess Cuerauaperi. Around 1530 the Spanish conquistador Luis Montanez founded a settlement there. During the independence rising of 1810, Miguel Hidalgo's insurgents occupied Zinapecuaro.