Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro

Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro or Parangaricutirimícuaro is a municipality in Mexico. It is located 1,880 meters above sea level on the plateau of Tarascan near the Paricutin volcano in the state of Michoacán. 2005, the city had 12,710 inhabitants.

The village was founded in 1943 by an eruption of the volcano completely destroyed and then rebuilt.

Today it lives because of the proximity to the volcano and because of the ruins of the old village - only parts of the old church tower from the solidified lava to - mainly from tourism.

Tongue-twister

The name Parangaricutirimícuaro is best known as part of a Zungenbrechers known: " El pueblo de Parangaricutirimícuaro se va a desparangaricutirimicuar Quien será un gran Logre desparangaricutirimicuarlo primero desparangaricutirimicuador. . "