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In the Purépecha lake

The Michuaque means “People that have water” in an indigenous language. This community with a lot of ancestral tradition lives around the “Patzcuaro lake” This place is returned with beautiful and magical vegetation. The night of the dead becomes orange color when you see in their islands all the candles brightening from far. The ancestors came to the land of the living.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Uranden, Mexico
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Copyright: © René Serrano Rodríguez