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Guerrero
Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero, is one of the 32 states that compose the administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guerrero, 85 municipalities. The state has a population of about 3.5 million people. It is located in southwest Mexico and is bordered by the states of Michoacán to the north and west, the State of Mexico and Morelos to the north, Puebla to the northeast and Oaxaca to the east. In addition to the capital city, Chilpancingo and the largest city Acapulco, other cities in Guerrero include Petatlán, Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, Ciudad Altamirano, Taxco, Iguala, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo. Today, it is home to a number of indigenous communities, including the Nahuas, Mixtecs, Tlapanec people, Tlapanecs, Amuzgos, and formerly Cuitlatec people, Cuitlatecs. It is also home to communities of Afro-Mexicans in the Costa Chica of Guerrero, Costa Chica region. The state was named after Vic ...
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Acapulco
Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , ; ), is a city and Port of Acapulco, major seaport in the Political divisions of Mexico, state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Located on a deep, semicircular bay, Acapulco has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico's history. It is a Port#Port of call, port of call for shipping and cruise lines running between Panama and San Francisco, California, United States. The city of Acapulco is the largest in the state, far larger than the state capital Chilpancingo. Acapulco is also Mexico's largest beach and balneario resort city. Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero is the municipal seat of the municipality of Acapulco (municipality), Acapulco, Guerrero. The city is one of Mexico's oldest beach resorts, coming into prominence in the 1940s through the 1960s as a getaway for Hollywood stars and millionaires. Acapulco was once a popular tourist resort, but due to a massive upsurge in gang v ...
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Municipalities Of Guerrero
Guerrero is a state in Southwest Mexico that is divided into 85 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican census, Guerrero is the 13th most populous state with inhabitants and the 14th largest by land area spanning . Municipalities in Guerrero are administratively autonomous of the state according to the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: ''presidente municipal'') by a plurality voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (''ayuntamiento'') responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The municipal council consists of a variable number of trustees and councillors (''regidores y síndicos''). Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewerage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, and the maintenance of public parks, gardens and cemeteries. They may also assist the state and federal governments in education, emergency fi ...
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Congress Of Guerrero
The Honorable Congress of the State of Guerrero () is the legislative branch of the government of the State of Guerrero Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero, is one of the 32 states that compose the administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guerrero, 85 municipalities. The stat .... The Congress is the governmental deliberative assembly, deliberative body of Guerrero, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive (government), executive. The Congress is Unicameralism, unicameral and consists of 46 Deputy (legislator), deputies. 28 deputies are elected on a first-past-the-post basis, one for each district in which the entity is divided, while 18 are elected through a system of proportional representation. Deputies are elected to serve for a three-year term. History Constituent Congress The Constituent Congress was installed on January 30, 1850, in the city of Iguala, which was then t ...
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Chilpancingo
Chilpancingo de los Bravo (commonly shortened to Chilpancingo; ; Nahuatl: Chilpantzinco ()) is the capital and second-largest city of the Mexican state of Guerrero. In 2010 it had a population of 187,251 people. The municipality has an area of in the south-central part of the state, situated in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, on the bank of the Huacapa River. The city is on Federal Highway 95, which connects Acapulco to Mexico City. It is served by Chilpancingo National Airport, which is one of the five airports in the state. History In pre-Columbian times, the area was occupied by the Olmecs, who built an extensive tunnel network through the mountains, and left the cave paintings in the caverns of Juxtlahuaca. The city of Chilpancingo was founded on 1 November 1591 by the Spanish conquistadores, its name meaning "Place of Wasps" in Nahuatl. During the War of Independence, Chilpancingo was crucial to the insurgent cause as its population participated actively and dec ...
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Manuel Añorve Baños
Manuel Añorve Baños (born 15 May 1957) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as a senator in the 64th and 65th Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the state of Guerrero and was re-elected to the same seat in 2024. He also is a two-time federal deputy and two-time former mayor of Acapulco. Life Añorve was born in Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico, on 15 May 1957. Añorve graduated with his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1981; he later returned to the university to obtain his master's and doctoral degrees. He was the private secretary to the head of the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform from 1981 to 1982. After several years spent earning more degrees, writing a book titled ''Los Servicios Públicos Municipales'' (Municipal Public Services), and becoming a state political councilor for the PRI, Añorve returned to the federal government in 1991 as the representative of Banobr ...
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Evelyn Salgado Pineda
Evelyn Cecilia Salgado Pineda (Guerrero born 5 February 1982) is a Mexican politician affiliated with MORENA. Since 15 October 2021, she is Governor of Guerrero List of governors of Guerrero since it became a Federated state, state of Mexico in 1917. References See also * List of Mexican state governors {{DEFAULTSORT:Governor Of Guerrero Governors of Guerrero, * Lists of governors of State .... In May 2021, she became the candidate for the governorship of Guerrero for Morena, on 13 June she obtained a majority certificate from the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute of Guerrero that accredits her as elected governor of the State. Her father is Senator .https://animalpolitico.com/elecciones-judiciales-2025/locales/guerrero-evelyn-salgado-reforma-magistrado-beneficiado References {{DEFAULTSORT:Salgado Pineda, Evelyn 1982 births Living people People from Iguala Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians Morena (political party) politicians 21s ...
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Tehuacalco
Tehuacalco is an archeological site located near the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. It was the first archeological site associated with the Yope people to be excavated, in the 2000s. The site is on a hill surrounded by mountains, which were worshipped by the Yope. Four marked the cardinal directions and one, Compuerta, was used to mark solar events such as equinoxes and solstices as the sun rose behind it. Tehuacalco was occupied as a ceremonial site from about 400CE to about 1100CE. The site was opened to the public in 2008. Location The site is located in state of Guerrero, near the state capital of Chilpancingo, near the Mexico City-Acapulco highway. The closest communities are La Haciendita, Camizal de la Vía, El Potrero and Garrapatas, which belong to the Camizal de la Vía ejidos, with the largest nearby community being Tierra Colorada. The environment of the area is deciduous tropical forest, whose trees lose most of their leaves during the dry season in the fal ...
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Nahuatl
Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller populations Nahuatl language in the United States, in the United States. Nahuatl has been spoken in central Mexico since at least the seventh century CE. It was the language of the Mexica, who dominated what is now central Mexico during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, Mesoamerican history. During the centuries preceding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Aztecs had expanded to incorporate a large part of central Mexico. Their influence caused the variety of Nahuatl spoken by the residents of Tenochtitlan to become a prestige language in Mesoamerica. Following the Spanish conquest, Spanish colonists and missionaries introduced the Latin script, and Nahuatl became a literary language. Many chronicles, gram ...
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Central Time Zone
The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ..., Mexico, Central America, and a few Caribbean Islands, Caribbean islands. In parts of that zone (20 states in the US, three provinces or territories in Canada, and several border municipalities in Mexico), the Central Time Zone is affected by two time designations yearly: Central Standard Time (CST) is observed from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March. It is UTC−06:00, six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and designated internationally as UTC−6. From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November the same areas observe daylight saving time (DST), creating the designation of Central ...
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Municipalities Of Mexico
Municipalities () are the administrative divisions under the List of states of Mexico, states of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico, constitution. Municipalities are considered as the second-level administrative divisions by the Federal government of Mexico, federal government. However, some state regulations have designed intrastate regions to administer their own municipalities. Municipalities are further divided into Localities of Mexico, localities in the structural hierarchy of administrative divisions of Mexico. As of December 2024, there are 2,462 municipalities in Mexico. In Mexico, municipalities should not be confused with cities (). Cities are Localities of Mexico, locality-level divisions that are administered by the municipality. Although some List of cities in Mexico, larger cities are consolidated with its own municipality and form a single level of governance. In addition, the 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs of Mexico City are considered municipali ...
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Territorial Evolution Of Mexico
Mexico has experienced many changes in territorial organization during its history as an independent state. The territorial boundaries of Mexico were affected by presidential and imperial decrees. One such decree was ''the Law of Bases for the Convocation of the Constituent Congress to the Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation'', which determined the national land area as the result of integration of the jurisdictions that corresponded to New Spain, the Captaincy General of Yucatán, the Captaincy General of Guatemala and the autonomous Kingdoms of East and West. The decree resulted in the Mexican War of Independence, independence from Spain. Organizations Subdivision by intendancies During the period of the Independence of Mexico, part of the territorial organization of New Spain was integrated into the new nation of the First Mexican Empire, Mexican Empire. Added to this were the Captaincy General of Yucatán and the Captaincy General of Guatemala (whose Central Amer ...
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List Of Mexican State Congresses
The congresses of the federal entities of Mexico are the depositary bodies of the legislative power in the thirty-one states and Mexico City. Conformed as unicameral assemblies, they are composed of deputies elected under the principles of relative majority and by proportional representation, in accordance with the specific regulations of local laws, but following the general bases of the federal constitution. All states, including Mexico City, use the presidential system form of government. Its members are elected by universal vote under the two principles already mentioned; the former directly and the others according to the multi-member list system established by federal law. The term of office is three years with the option of immediate reelection, as long as it is representing the party or coalition that originally nominated the deputy. For each titular deputy, an alternate is elected; This being the one who will make up for the temporary or permanent absences of his runnin ...
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