155
kilometers (96.31 miles) from Morelia
213 kilometers (132.35 miles) from Mexico City
35 kilometers (21.75 miles) from Zitacuaro
Angangueo
comes from the Purepecha and means "Entrance to the cave".
It is a typical mining town with stone pavement, warm weather
and rounded by pine, oak and oyamel forests.
Holidays:
May 3 Holy Cross day
July 11 Mining day
October 28 Festivity of St. Simon, the town's Patron Saint
December 8 Virgin Mary Festivity
Altitude
above the sea level: 2,580 meters (8,464.55 ft.)
Warm weather of two kinds: with rains during the summer and
with rains all the year
Temperature: Maximum 24.3°C (75.7°F), Minimum
6.3°C (43.3°F)
Handcraft:
Metal, iron and silver works and hand woven material made on
colonial looms.
Gastronomy:
Wheat pozole (Pork meat, hot soup with tender wheat), mole (Stew
prepared with dry chili, tomatoes and spices), carnitas (Pork
meat fried up with lard in a copper pot), fig atole (Drink prepared
with cornmeal gruel) and piloncillo (brown sugar) jam.
We
recommend to visit:
- Temple of
Immaculate Conception dated from the XVIII with an altar
- brought from
Italy and images of Virgin Mary and St. Joseph brought
- from Paris.
- Chapels of
Holy Mary Goretti of the Misercord
- Church of
St. Simon
- Museum of
Parker House with a tunnel to St. Simon
- Mining monument
- Nazareth
Jesus Former Estate
  
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