Chilapa de Álvarez
Chilapa de Álvarez, informally kent as Chilapa, is a municipality in the Mexican state o Guerrero, approximately 54 kilometres east o state caipital Chilpancingo. It is a vera auld toun, its first offeecial chairter wis issued bi the Aztec govrenment in the 15t century, efter the aurie's conquest bi Moctezuma I in 1458. The Spaingie offeecially designatit the toun as Chilapa de Santa Maria de Asuncion in 1522, in the late 19t century it wis renamit Chilapa de Álvarez in honor o Mexican preses Juan Álvarez. Traces o human occupation in the aurie date tae at least 1200 BC.
Chilapa de Álvarez | |
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Coordinates: 17°36′N 99°10′W / 17.600°N 99.167°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
State | Guerrero |
Municipality | Chilapa de Álvarez |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 102,853 |
The year 2000 census coontit 102,853 bodies in the municipality.
Chilapa is notit for its muckle Seturday tianguis, or Aztec mercat. Local culinar specialities o Chilapa are pozole, chalupas, pan de chilapa bread, an hamemade mezcal. The municipal cathedral haes a mechanical figurine o Juan Diego, who appears at a windae in the cathedral spire an drops rose petals ontae the plaza belaw.