Tixtla
Tixtla (formally, Tixtla de Guerrero ) is a toun an seat o the municipality o Tixtla de Guerrero in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
Tixtla | |
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Municipal seat an ceety | |
  Tixtla Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 17°34′N 99°24′W / 17.567°N 99.400°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Guerrero |
| Municipality | Tixtla de Guerrero |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 21,720 |
The name is Nahuatl, an means either "maize daich" (masa) frae textli; "oor glen" frae tae ixtla; or "temple bi the watter" frae teoixtlen.
The municipality staunds atween 17°20' & 17°43' N an 99°15' & 99°28' W, some 20 km east o state caipital Chilpancingo. It covers a total surface aurie o 290 km. It reportit 33,620 fowk in the 2000 census, includin 18% Native Americans (speakers o Nahuatl an Tlapaneco).
Tixtla wis the birthplace o baith unthirldom hero an Mexican preses Vicente Guerrero (1783 - 1831) an writer an educator Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834 - 1893). It servit as the first caipital o Guerrero, frae 1851 tae 1870, an the state constitution wis promulgatit thare on 14 Juin 1851.