Journal Hafner, H.S. 1977 En Route: Uruapan to Nahuatzen, Michoacan, Mexico. 31 July (cont) We drove through the beautiful forested mountains north of Uruapan through the town of Paracho de Verduzco ( billed to the the "Guitar capital of the world" -- we saws dozens and dozens of guitar shops ). We then turned SE out of the small village of Cherán toward Nahuatzen. The town is located in a scenic valley between volcanic ridges. Much of the valley floor is in corn. We stopped at a point: 1 km. N 2 km. W Nahuatzen, 2220m., Michoacan, Mexico. We each put out 6 gopher sets in the loamy soil adjacent to the roadway and in the nearby plowed fields. The holes were quite obviously those of Pappogeomys and in sight of 1 hour JCT had a live Pappogeomys. We pulled traps disappointedly (as we as yet have not obtained a Zygogeomys sample) and headed south again on July 37. Total: 1 Pappogeomys taylorkinnes tylorhinus 1230 We decided to give one more try for Zygogeomys. We thought that perhaps Hall and Villa (1949?) had trapped on the western slopes of Mt. Tancitaro (rather than the southeastern slopes where we were last night). We decided to approach the western slopes of Mt.