A Trip around Lake Pátzcuaro – a Must-Do on Your Next Visit!

A trip around Lake Pátzcuaro is an excellent option we recommend to our guests at Hotel Mansión Iturbe. If you want a different experience – enjoying nature in a relaxing and quiet atmosphere, enjoying the biodiversity of the area – you’ll love this excursion. Lake Patzcuaro Lake Pátzcuaro is located in the center of the State of Michoacán (which means “place of fishermen”). This is due the pre-Hispanic era when the first human settlements were found near lakes, such as Lake Pátzcuaro , Lake Cuitzeo , Lake Zacapu, and Lake Zirahuén. Lake Pátzcuaro’s surface is 13,000 hectares (32,123 acres); the total shoreline length is 50 kilometers (31 miles); but its mean depth is only 9 meters. It size surprises many of our visitors. It has a very peaceful feeling to it, with dozens of small communities with deep cultural roots full of history. The new visitor will be amazed by the folk art andartisanware to be...