Michoacan

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Michoacán; a state of Mexico. alt-of, alternative

    "Villegas Gonzalez left his hometown of Irimbo, in Mexico's Michoacan state, 18 years ago for the U.S. and worked as a cook in Chicago, his older brother Jorge Villegas Gonzalez told Reuters."

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"In the Mexican state of Michoacan this year, the suspicious death of a prominent communal leader at the Monarch butterfly’s World Heritage reserve rocked the conservation world."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Michoacán, from Classical Nahuatl Michhuahcan (“place of fish”).

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