Huetamo.—Lat. 18° 38', long. 100° 53', elev. 300 m. A town in the Balsas Valley; arid tropical scrub forest.
Huingo.—Lat. 19° 55', long. 100° 50', elev. 1800 m. A village on the eastern edge of the Lago de Cuitzeo lakebed; mesquite-grassland.
Jacona.—Lat. 19° 57', long. 102° 18', elev. 1600 m. A small town, 4.3 kilometers by road southwest of Zamora; mesquite-grassland.
Jaramillo.—Lat. 19° 20', long. 102° 02', elev. 1500 m. A ranch 9 kilometers by road south of Uruapan; pine-oak forest.
Jazmin.—Lat. 18° 52', long. 101° 58', elev. 275 m. A village in the Tepalcatepec Valley, 32 kilometers by road southeast of Cuatro Caminos; open arid tropical scrub forest.
Jeráhuaro.—Lat. 19° 52', long. 100° 35', elev. 2600 m. A town in the northern part of the state and located east of Lago de Cuitzeo; pine-oak forest.
Jiquilpan.—Lat. 19° 59', long. 102° 43', elev. 1570 m. A town just southeast of Lago de Chapala; mesquite-grassland.
Jorullo (Volcán).—Lat 19° 00', long. 101° 45', elev. 1300 m. (crest). A cinder and lava cone rising from the foothills of the Cordillera Volcánica; arid tropical scrub forest on lower slopes and pine-oak forest on top.
Jungapeo.—Lat. 19° 26', long. 100° 29', elev. 1430 m. A village in the valley of the Río Tuxpan, about 13 kilometers south of Tuxpan on the southern slopes of the Mexican Plateau; tropical semi-deciduous forest and pine-oak forest.
Lengua de Vaca (Puerto de).—Lat. 19° 26', long. 100° 13', elev. 2900 m. A pass in the mountains at the Michoacán-Mexico border through which passes the Mexico City-Morelia highway; pine and fir forest.