Be welcome to Zirahuén, "Place of humaredas", according to the etimology of its name Purembe or Tarasco. To that purhépechas identifies like "Mirror of the Gods" and the ecologists, more and more demanding, they call "the michoacan natural wonder that still is conserved".

The legend counts that to the arrival of the Spaniards to Michoacán, after the fall of Tenochtitlan, a captain fell in love with Eréndira, the beautiful daughter of Tangaxoan, King of purépechas; hid hert in a precious valley surrounded by mountains. The princess, raised on a rock implorando to their Gods of the day and at night, Juriata and Járatanga, sent a torrent to him of tears with which she formed a great lake to which she threw herself, turning it the wizards siren so that she did not die drowned.

Since then, by its great beauty, the lake was called Zirahuén, that in purépecha means "mirror of the Gods". They say that the still vague siren by those waters and that in the first hours of the dawn arises from the bottom to enchant the bad men, she drowns them and she takes the heart to them, hanging these in the edge of the raft, in offense of those who they do not know to conquer with love and they apostatize of the course of history.