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San Lucas is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán.

Political entity
The municipality is located at the southeast of the state. It has a territory of 468.01 km2, which represents the 8% of the state of Michoacán. Due to the territorial law, San Lucas appears as possession of the Huetamo municipality. The seat has a municipal president, one syndic, four majority regidors and three proportional representation regidors .The structure of the municipality includes a municipal secretary, treasy, public works, a municipal social development, public security, administrative office, DIF and SAPA. Other principal communities include Angao, San Pedro, Tacupa, Riva Palacio, and Tamarindo. San Lucas’ principal crafts are the production of palm hats, huaraches and terracalenteños.

Geography and environment
It has an average altitude of 300 meters above sea level. It landscape is composed by the Transversal volcanic system,  the Balsas depression; Silla, Cruz and Picacho hill La bolita, Cutzamala, and the Balsas rivers ; san Lucas y el Chumbitaro creek. The climate is tropical, dry steppe, with temperatures between 20.2 to 35.3 C. The annual average rainfall is 906.5mm.

The ecosystem is dominated by tropical thorny forests with huisache, teteche, cardon, amolé, viejito y cueramo and tropical deciduous that include parota, ceiba, and mesquite dominate the ecosystem.

History
The denomination of San Lucas dates since the colonial era in honor to the San Lucas Virgin. The first agustines arrived to predicate evangelism, in 1555, Fray Juan de Moya, congregated the natives and founded a new doctrine. In 1765 Joseph Marcelino Palomino, a local priest from the partido of Cutzio, integrated San Lucas to form the Partido of Cutzio. In 1763 an earthquake affected the church construction and was about to fall down in pieces, the locals tried to build another one but couldn’t due to their lack of money.

Category:Municipalities of Michoacán