A bit of background ino Michoacan and neighboring states

Below are some links to various web sites with information about Michoacan and cites/state close to Villachuato--just to provide you with a bit more general information about the area. I initially wanted to provide you with a few links to overview sites and then a bunch of interesting demographic, econimc, occupational, and social indicators. However, my (Nick's) 'technical' reading skills in Spanish suck, so I was not able to find much interesting structural data. Sorry.

FYI, the website for INEGI (roughly = to Mexican Census Bureau) is here

The links below could be interesting.
wiki post on Michoacan if its on wiki is has to be true...right?
wiki post on Guanajuato, city of Leon, and Guanajuato (city of)

For Spanish speakers/readers here is the offical municipal website for Puruandiro. According to the 2000 Mexican census Puruandiro and hinterlands is the 182 largest city + vicinty in Mexico--thats big time! The potential for governmental bias aside, its pretty informative. Sadly, Villachuato is still waiting for a governmental website.

Interesting article on the history of the Purhépecha Indians (aka Tarascos) in Michoacan. They are one of the indigenous groups in Mexico. wiki post on indigenous populations in Mexico

Weather'...this was tough...historically for that time of year it appears that the average high is ~85 and the low is ~55 degrees. msnweather for Zacapu--closest city with weather info

High quality maps are hard to find online. here is a decent pdf map of Michoacan.
Here is an okay map of Guanjuato--one nice thing about this map is that it has active links to descriptions of some of the cities/sites by a journalist in GTO on a Fullbright.