What is "huetamo"

Huetamo is a municipality in the southeastern corner of the Mexican state of Michoacán, in a region known as " Tierra Caliente" (meaning hot land). Of indigenous Purepecha Indian origin, the word "Huetamo" means "four chiefs" or "four came". Fr. Juan Bautista de Moya founded it in 1553 and its official name now is San Juan Huetamo de Nunez.