Juárez is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 141.21 square kilometres (0.24% of the surface of the state)[1] and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Zitácuaro, to the east and south Susupuato, and to the west by Tuzantla and Jungapeo. The municipality had a population of 12, 016 inhabitants according to the 2005 census.[2] Its municipal seat is the city of Benito Juárez.
It is unknown what ethnic group dominated the present day municipality of Juárez region in pre-Columbian times.[1]
The municipality is named after Benito Juárez, a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms[3] (1858 - 1861), (1861 - 1865), (1865 - 1867), (1867 - 1871), and (1871 - 1872), as President of Mexico.