Discover Charanda, the Traditional Liqueur of Michoacan
On your next visit to Patzcuaro, we recommend that you try Charanda, known as the
traditional liqueur of Michoacan.
Under the eaves outside the Hotel Mansion Iturbe, enjoy a charanda-based cocktail along with our Michoacan-grown guacamole with chips,
admiring the famous Plaza Vasco de
Quiroga right across the Street.
Charanda is a genuine product of
Michoacan, originating in Uruapan. It is a spirit derived from
the distillation and fermentation of concentrate of sugar cane, resulting in a
molasses or brown sugar.
Charanda the traditional liqueur of Michoacan |
We find charanda
in both clear and amber tones, cured in oak.
It varies in proof from 70 to 110.
The charanda is matured in oak barrels |
The “Charanda
Region” is an area of 8,600 square kilometers, and is in and around the
city of Uruapan. Sixteen
municipalities, Ario, Cotija, Gabriel Zamora, N. Parangaricutiro, Nuevo Urecho,
Peribán, Los Reyes, S. Escalante, Tacámbaro, Tancítaro, Tangancícuaro, Taretan,
Tocumbo, Turicato, Uruapan y Ziracuarétiro, produce the sugar cane appropriate
for making charanda.
This region is in the transition zone between the Zona
de Tierra Caliente (Warm Land) and Zona Lacustre (Lake Habitat), at an altitude
between 1,600 and 3,850 meters above sea level.
Charanda is a liqueur from Uruapan |
Sugar cane has been cultivated in this area since the
16th century. Afterward, at the
beginning of the 17th century, Augustinian monks founded the Hacienda de Taretan, installing a sugar
mill, which was the beginning of an economic boom for the region.
In those times, of course, the mill, of course, was
“run” with animal power. The mills had
“rollers” that pressed the liquid out of the sugar cane.
Charanda Uruapan boutique |
Your next visit to our area, consider a trip to Uruapan, with its exuberant
vegetation. You’ll be able to easily
find charanda (Purépecha for “red
earth”). There’s even a “Charanda Hill” outside Uruapan.
Charanda Uruapan is renown for its quality |
The next time you taste charanda, remember its history that goes back almost five hundred
years. The above-mentioned
municipalities are the only authorized areas of charanda production in the entire country.
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