Lake Patzcuaro in the western state of Michoacán has lost more than half its volume since authorities started tracking its falling water levels, according to a new report from CNN affiliate Televisa.

When Mexican hotelier Arturo Pimentel looks out at Lake Pátzcuaro, he sees a massive patch of dry land where sparkling water should be. The lake in Michoacán state — which he says holds ...

A mysterious 45-foot-long boat wreck, pre-Hispanic artifacts and a "unique" set of modified human bones are among the finds that were recently uncovered in a vanishing Mexican lake. In May this ...

The Mexican Civil Guard reports. Every day, almost a million liters of water from Lake Patzcuaro are plundered to irrigate the avocado trees that are so numerous in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

State workers this week freed 10,000 silverside fish native to Lake Patzcuaro, whose waters attract fishermen and tourists in the western state of Michoacan. The aim is to release a total of ...

Water is frequently illegally extracted from Michoacán’s Lake Patzcuaro, one of the Mexico’s largest inland bodies of water. Police were sent to protect Patzcuaro in April last year after theft and ...

Last month, workers at a site in Janitzio in Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico unearthed a traditional boat, known as a tepari. It’s believed that this vessel sank as it carried a load of firewood from ...

A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the ...

In May this year, a traditional type of boat known as a tepari was found on the shores of the island of Janitzio, which lies within Lake Pátzcuaro in the state of Michoacán, the country's ...