Tuzantla

Tuzantla lies in the Tierra Caliente of eastern Michoacán, where rivers descend from the highlands toward the Balsas basin. After the Spanish conquest it became an encomienda, and missionaries based at Zitácuaro worked in the region during the sixteenth century. The parish of San Francisco was established in 1648. Its history belongs to a frontier country where communities of different origins lived between the old Purépecha and Mexica spheres of influence.