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Explore Los Otates in Mexico

Los Otates in the region of Michoacán is a place in Mexico - some 177 mi or ( 285 km ) West of Mexico City , the country's capital city .

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Time in Los Otates is now 02:06 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Mexico City " with a UTC offset of -6 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Puebla, Mexico City, Zacatecas, Tomendan, and Tepic. Since you are here already, consider visiting Puebla . Where to go and what to see in Los Otates ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Nuevo Urecho

Nuevo Urecho is a municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 330.66 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Taretan, to the east by Ario, to the south by La Huacana, and to the west by Gabriel Zamora. The municipality had a population of 7,722 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of the same name.

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Located at 19.17 -101.87 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: Municipalities of Michoacán, Populated places in Michoacán

Mexicana Flight 940

Flight 940 was operating its scheduled flight route Mexico City-Puerto Vallarta-Mazatlán-Los Angeles operated by Mexicana Airlines (Compañia Mexicana de Aviación). On March 31, 1986, the flight departed from Mexico City utilizing a Boeing 727-264 registered as XA-MEM. Fifteen minutes into the morning flight, the plane crashed into a mountain named El Carbón in the rugged Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range of central Mexico.

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Located at 19.17 -101.90 (Lat./Long.); Less than 7 km away
Tags: 1986 in Mexico, Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 727, Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight fires, Airliner accidents and incidents caused by maintenance errors, Aviation accidents and incidents in 1986, Aviation accidents and incidents in Mexico, Mexicana accidents and incidents

Ario, Michoacán

Ario is a municipality located in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 694.60 square kilometres (1.18% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by Salvador Escalante, to the east by Tacámbaro and Turicato, to the south by La Huacana, to the west by Nuevo Urecho, and to the northwest by Taretán. The municipality had a population of 31, 647 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Its municipal seat is the city of Ario de Rosales.

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Located at 19.20 -101.67 (Lat./Long.); Less than 18 km away
Tags: Municipalities of Michoacán, Populated places in Michoacán

Taretan

Taretan is a municipality located in the central part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 185.23 square kilometres (0.56% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Ziracuaretiro, to the east by Salvador Escalante and Ario, to the south by Gabriel Zamora and Nuevo Urecho, and to the west by Uruapan The municipality had a population of 12,294 inhabitants according to the 2005 census.

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Located at 19.33 -101.92 (Lat./Long.); Less than 20 km away
Tags: Municipalities of Michoacán, Populated places in Michoacán

El Jorullo

El Jorullo is a cinder cone volcano in Michoacán, central Mexico, on the southwest slope of the central plateau, 33 miles (53 kilometers) southeast of Uruapan in an area known as the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field. Coordinates are {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:18|58|26.43|N|101|43|2.97|W|type:city | |name= }} (18.974008, −101.717492), about 6 miles (10 kilometers) east-northeast of La Huacana. Its current elevation is 1,320 metres .

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Located at 18.97 -101.72 (Lat./Long.); Less than 25 km away
Tags: Cinder cones, Geography of Michoacán, Mountains of Mexico, Pyroclastic cones, Volcanoes of Mexico