Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc (municipality)
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| Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc | |
| — Municipality — | |
  Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc
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| Country | Mexico |
| State | Guerrero |
| Municipal seat | Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc |
| Largest city | |
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| - Municipal president | |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Website: Ixcateopan (Spanish) | |
Ixtcateopan de Cuauhtémoc is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state of Guerrero. It is located in the parallel 18°25’ of north latitude and between the meridians 99°42’ and 99°51’ of west longitude. The distance between Ixcateopan and Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, is 180 km.
Ixcateopan has a territorial extension of 310.7 square kilometers. According with the 2000 INEGI census Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc has a population of 2296 habitants.[1]
The name “Ixcateopan” is composed by the word “ixcatl” which means cotton, and “teopantli” which means temple, and the complete name means “In the temple of cotton".[2]
The main activities of the town are carpentry, farming and livestock raising. It claims to be the final resting place of Aztec huey tlatoani Cuauhtémoc.
[edit] References
- ^ Mapa Digital de México. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
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