Uriangato
Sign in to saveUriangato is a city and one of 46 municipalities of Guanajuato, located just north of the border between the states of Guanajuato and Michoacán in west central Mexico. Uriangato city is geographically united with Moroleon city and Yuriria city, these three cities form a metropolitan area. Since October 2010, this metropolitan area is the 75th biggest city of Mexico and the 5th biggest in Guanajuato. It is smallest of the 56 metropolitan areas in Mexico.
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- Uriangato
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- Uriangato City
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- Uriangato Historic Downtown
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- Centro
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- Uriangato
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26 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Pre-Hispanic age
- Settlement
- From Independence to Mexican Revolution (1810-1910)
- Early 20th century
- Textile industry beginnings
- 21st century
- Geography
- Municipal subdivisions by locality
- Neighborhoods in Uriangato city
- Limits
- Metropolitan area Uriangato-Moroleón
- Hydrography
- Orography
- Climate
- Vegetation
- Fauna
- Demographics
- Dwellings
- Tourism and culture
- Tourism
- Culture
- Holidays
- References
- External links
Uriangato is a city and one of 46 municipalities of Guanajuato, located just north of the border between the states of Guanajuato and Michoacán in west central Mexico. Uriangato city is geographically united with Moroleon city and Yuriria city, these three cities form a metropolitan area. Since October 2010, this metropolitan area is the 75th biggest city of Mexico and the 5th biggest in Guanajuato. It is smallest of the 56 metropolitan areas in Mexico.
thumb|200px|Uriangato downtown. thumb|200px|Uriangato's principal church. thumb|200px|Uriangato downtown's principal garden. thumb|200px|Traditional building in Uriangato. thumb|200px|Principal Garden in Uriangato. 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.