La Piedad

La Piedad de Cavadas is a city and its surrounding municipality (La Piedad municipality) located at in the north-west of the Mexican state of Michoacán, bordering Jalisco and Guanajuato. The original colonial name was San Sebastián. It is bordered by the town of Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato. Both towns straddle the Lerma river. La Piedad's population was 99,837 inhabitants in the 2010 census (250 000 habitants including its metropolitan area). The municipality has an area of 284.11 km² (109.7 sq mi). La Piedad, "north door" of the state of Michoacán, surrounding the Lerma river, has limits at the north with the municipalities of Degollado, Jalisco and Penjamo, Guanajuato; at the east with the municipality of Numarán, Michoacán; at the...