Cutzamala de Pinzón
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Cutzamala de Pinzón is a city, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Guerrero. As of a 2000 estimate the population is around 27,000. It is located in the far northwestern part of the state, on the border with Michoacán.
[edit] History
Eutimo Pinzón, often considered the hero of Cutzamala, was the general who defended the town during the French Intervention of 1874.
The name Cutzamala comes from a Nahuatl word cutzamatl meaning "weasel"; hence, "Place of Weasels". It was known to Purepecha speakers as "Apatzingán", which has the same meaning. An alternative theory suggests the Nahuatl word cutzamallot, meaning "rainbow."[1]
