Uriangato
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Uriangato Historic Downtown
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| Nickname(s): Spanish: Lugar donde el sol se pone levantado (English: Place where sunset occurs on top) | ||
 Uriangato
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| Coordinates: 20°08′N 101°10′W / 20.133°N 101.167°WCoordinates: 20°08′N 101°10′W / 20.133°N 101.167°W | ||
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 Mexico
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 Guanajuato
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| Region | Centro | |
| Municipality | Uriangato | |
| Foundation | February 20, 1604 | |
| Founded by | Fray Diego de Chavez | |
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| • Mayor | Carlos "Tanao" Guzman Camarena (PVEM) | |
| Area | ||
| • City | 115.76 km2 (44.70 sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 400 km2 (200 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 1,810 m (5,940 ft) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • City | 59,305 | |
| • Metro | 127,000 | |
| Demonym(s) | Uriangatense | |
| Time zone | CST (UTC−6) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC) | |
| Website | www |
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Uriangato is one of 46 cities in Guanajuato, located in the borderline between the states of Guanajuato and Michoacán in the region West-Center of Mexico. Uriangato city is geographically united to Moroleon city and Yuriria city, these three cities be a metropolitan area since October 2010, this metropolitan area is 75th biggest city of Mexico and the 5th biggest in Guanajuato, is smallest of the 56 metropolitan areas in Mexico. According to INEGI's census made in 2010, the population in Uriangato was 59.305 people, nevertheless the population of the three counties that conforms metropolitan area was 179.451 in that year. Uriangato is 6th city with better quality of life in Guanajuato (only surpassed by Celaya, Leon, Moroleon, Irapuato, Guanajuato) and 8th county with greater index of human development in Guanajuato.
Uriangato is the Spanish version of a Purepecha word that means "the place where the sunset occurs on top" or anapu-nani-hima-huriata-hari-jatzhicuni-anandini in Purepecha .
According to the United Nations/PNUD, in 2005 Uriangato was a municipality of High Human Development, with an index of 0.8147 (scale 0 to 1). This puts Uriangato at 432nd place in the country (2,454 municipalities of México) and 8th in all Guanajuato state (46 municipalities of Guanajuato), in terms of quality of life.
An average person in Uriangato earned $8,607 US dollars ($110,200 pesos) during one year (2005), which puts Uriangato in 365th place in the country and 12th place in Guanajuato state.
Uriangato, like all of Guanajuato state, is considered by CONAPO to be a High Migration Municipality, because more than 10% of its families receive money from their relatives in the United States. This situation has improved the quality of life in Uriangato, most of whose emigrants live in California, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York.
Uriangato's land belonged to several native groups of Tarascos since the end of the 14th century. In 1597 Juan Ignacio Córcoles began to administer the Royal Certificate. Uriangato became part of Spain on February 20, 1604, by mandate of King Felipe III, who bestowed on it the official name of San Miguel de Uriangato. On November 19, 1845, the state congress of Guanajuato designated it as a Town, and in 1951 the local Congress granted it the title City of Uriangato.
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