- Tixtla
Tixtla (formally, Tixtla de Guerrero) is a town in the Mexican state of
Guerrero . The surrounding municipality "(municipio)," for which it serves as the municipal seat, is also called Tixtla.The name is
Nahuatl , and means either "maize dough" "(masa ) "from "textli;" "our valley" from "to ixtla;" or "temple by the water" from " teoixtlen".The municipality stands between 17°20' & 17°43' N and 99°15' & 99°28' W, some 20 km east of state capital
Chilpancingo . It covers a total surface area of 290 km. It reported 33,620 people in the 2000 census, including 18% Native Americans (speakers ofNahuatl and Tlapaneco).Tixtla was the birthplace of both Independence hero and Mexican president
Vicente Guerrero (1783 - 1831) and writer and educatorIgnacio Manuel Altamirano (1834 - 1893). It served as the first capital of Guerrero, from 1851 to 1870, and the state constitution was promulgated there on14 June 1851 .Other towns in the municipality include
Atliaca (5,981 ppl), Almolonga (1,346),Zoquiapa (1,243), andEl Durazno (1,070).External links
*http://www.guerrero.gob.mx/nuevo/municipios.php?qSrc=12061a.htm
*http://www.guerrero.gob.mx/dominios/gobierno/divisiónpolitica/tixtla.htm
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