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 found in each of these villages. The most pa