Chichihualco

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Chichihualco
Municipal seat and city
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Chichihualco
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°39′18″N99°40′26″W / 17.655°N 99.674°W / 17.655; -99.674
CountryFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
State Guerrero
Municipality Leonardo Bravo
Elevation
1,141 m (3,743 ft)
Population
 (2010)
  Total10,690

Chichihualco is a city in the south of Mexico. It forms the administrative centre of the municipality of Leonardo Bravo, found in the centre of Guerrero state 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]

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References

  1. "Descarga de Base de Datos (Poblacion)". Sistema Nacional de Información Municipal (SNIM) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal (INAFED). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  2. "Encyclopaedia of the Municipalities of Mexico: Leonardo Bravo (in Spanish)". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  3. "María Fermina Rivera (¿?- 1821)" (in Spanish). Nuestros humanistas. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  4. "Rivera, Maria Fermina" (in Spanish). Enciclopedia Gro. Retrieved June 2, 2019.

Coordinates: 17°39′18″N99°40′26″W / 17.655°N 99.674°W / 17.655; -99.674