Chichihualco Explained

Chichihualco
Settlement Type:Municipal seat and city
Pushpin Map:Mexico Guerrero#Mexico
Pushpin Label Position:above
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Guerrero
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Leonardo Bravo
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:10,690
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:Zona Centro
Utc Offset:-6
Coordinates:17.655°N -99.674°W
Elevation M:1,141

Chichihualco is a city in the south of Mexico. It forms the administrative centre of the municipality of Leonardo BravoIt is located in the centre of the state of Guerrero, about 21 kilometres northwest of the state capital, Chilpancingo.

According to Mexico’s Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal (National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development, INAFED), the city was home to 5,164 men and 5,526 women, a total of 10,690 inhabitants in 2010. It is found at an altitude of 1,141 metres above mean sea level, a latitude of 17°39′28″ north and a longitude of 99°40′35″ west.[1]

In the local Nahuatl language, the name literally means ‘in the bosom’, translated as ‘place where they suckle’ or ‘place of the wet nurses’.[2]

One source has it that Maria Fermina Rivera died in action in Chichihualco while fighting alongside Vicente Guerrero in February 1821,[3] although another source disputes this.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Descarga de Base de Datos (Poblacion) . Sistema Nacional de Información Municipal (SNIM) . Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal (INAFED) . 2 June 2019 . Yes . es.
  2. Web site: Encyclopaedia of the Municipalities of Mexico: Leonardo Bravo (in Spanish). . 2008-06-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930023916/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/guerrero/municipios/12040a.htm . 2007-09-30 . dead .
  3. Web site: María Fermina Rivera (¿?- 1821). Nuestros humanistas. es. June 1, 2019.
  4. Web site: Rivera, Maria Fermina. Enciclopedia Gro. es. June 2, 2019.