Erongarícuaro
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| Erongarícuaro Erongarícuaro |
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| Nickname: Eronga | |
| Country | Mexico |
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| State | Michoacán |
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| - Total | 5,000 |
| Time zone | Central Standard Time (UTC-6) |
| Website: http://www.eronga.com.mx/ | |
Erongarícuaro, which means "Place of waiting" in the Purepecha language, is a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located about an hour and a half drive to Morelia or Uruapan and just 20 minutes from the famous colonial town of Pátzcuaro. The estimated population is about 5,000 people.
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[edit] History
[edit] The town
Erongarícuaro is hidden high in the mountains of Michoacán at 2200 m (7130 feet) of elevation. To the East is Lake Pátzcuaro, one of Mexico's highest lakes.
The town retains its ancient atmosphere. It consists of largely one-story adobe or plaster-over-brick buildings with red tile roofs. The streets are dusty cobblestones traveled by horse and car. The plaza has a fountain, stage and amazing collection of trees. Wandering the streets uphill, there is a cemetery and a chapel.
[edit] Culture
- Annual Flower Show
- Tuesday Goodness Market - with homemade breads and cheeses.
[edit] Entertainment
Jaripeos and parties and festivals are common throughout the year.
[edit] Food
The nieve (ice cream), sold in shops on the plaza, is a delightful treat. There are many different flavors, made with water or with cream. Combinations of flavors add variety and taste. One of the most popular flavors is called pasta (paste). Popsicles made from exotic fruits make a pleasant taste adventure.
Except for early evening there is always food on the plaza.
In the mornings the Red Star Café at Portal Hidalgo 3 on the town plaza serves up desayuno artesanal--local, fresh, organic when possible, prepared from scratch--and wraps it all up in a beautiful, flowery setting, with great music played on the café stereo, from son to ragtime, from Klezmer to Tejano, from Zydeco to Beethoven. The café is frequented by local artists and writers and musicians. The café also serves up a banquet of Italian coffee drinks starting with great espresso made from organic coffee beans from Chiapas. The tone of the café is left political, but all stripes are welcome. The breakfasts are the best in the area, and the prices are minimal.
[edit] Shopping
- Woman's craft market
- Furniture and woodcrafts.
[edit] Trivia
[edit] Notable residents of Eronga
- Lázaro Cárdenas The popular President of Mexico, was rumored to take his boat across the lake where no road reached. He began from his large mansion in Patzcuaro, which now houses CREFAL [1] and upon reaching Erongaricauro was free to make fiestas with his girlfriends in Mansion Las Rosas, right on the plaza.
During Mexico's postwar art scene:
- Trotsky, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Jean Charlot, Andre Breton.
- Roberto Matta, Remedios Varo, Esteban Francis, Pierre Mabille, Benjamin Péret
- Gordon Onslow Ford and his wife Jacqueline Johnson, an American writer.
- Peruvian poet César Moro, anthropologist Miguel Covarrubias, painter Carlos Mérida
- Surrealist painter Wolfgang Paalen with painter and poet Alice Rahon, and photographer Eva Sulzer.
Current artists:
- Painter Brian Fey lives as a reclusive hermit in the forest of nearby Cerro Chivo.
Writer and painter Carlos Dews lives with his compañero of 32 years, David Everett, also a writer, in a beautiful 400-year-old house right on the plaza that functions as a socialist collective which includes five permanent residents and an extended community of dozens. Collectivists are involved in many different economic enterprises and are supporters of the Permaculture movement that thrives in the area.
