Chilpancingo de los Bravo (municipality)

Chilpancingo de los Bravo
Municipality
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Coordinates: 17°11′N99°29′W / 17.183°N 99.483°W / 17.183; -99.483
Country	Mexico
State	Guerrero
Municipal seat	Chilpancingo
Government
• Municipal President	Gustavo Alarcón Herrera (PAN)
• Federal electoral district	Guerrero's 7th
Area
• Total	2,338.4 km2 (902.9 sq mi)
Population  (2005)
• Total	214,219
Time zone	UTC−6 (Zona Centro)

Chilpancingo de los Bravo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The municipal seat is Chilpancingo de los Bravo.

Geography

The municipality is within the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range. It covers an area of 2,338.4 square kilometres (902.9 mi²).

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 214,219. ^[1]

Towns and villages

The municipality has 114 localities. The largest are as follows:

Locality	Population
Total Municipio	214,219
Chilpancingo de los Bravo	166,796
Petaquillas	7,627
Ocotito	6,212
Mazatlán	4,599
Jaleaca de Catalán [a]	2,578
Palo Blanco	2,288
Julián Blanco	1,956

Administration

Main article: List of municipal presidents of Chilpancingo de los Bravo

References

1. Jaleaca became Jaleaca de Catalán by decree 15 of 3 June 1889 in honour of the brave offer of Antonia Nava de Catalán in offering to sacrifice herself during the Mexican War of Independence. ^[2]

1. "Chilpancingo de los Bravo". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on May 10, 2007. Retrieved December 23, 2008.
2. Acuña Cepeda, Mirtea Elizabeth (19 November 2017), "Antonia Nava de Catalán, la Generala", Ecos de la Costa (in Spanish), archived from the original on 1 December 2017, retrieved 2017-11-28