Michoacán

Michoacán is a state of western Mexico, stretching from the Pacific coast to the volcanic highlands, with its capital at Morelia. It was the heartland of the Purépecha state, which resisted the Aztecs and submitted to the Spanish between 1522 and 1530. In the colonial period it became a bishopric under Vasco de Quiroga, and it was a key region in the war of independence.