Guerrero (State)

Guerrero
Capital	Chilpancingo
surface	64,281 km² (rank 14 )
population	3,388,768 (Rank 12 )
Population density	48 inhabitants per km² (2010 census)
governor	Héctor Antonio Astudillo Flores ( PRI ) (2015-2021)
Federal MPs	Morena = 4 PT = 3 PRD = 1 PES = 1 (9 federal constituencies)
Senators	Morena = 2 PRI = 1
ISO 3166-2	MX-GRO
Postal abbreviation	Large
Website	www.guerrero.gob.mx

Guerrero [ geˈreɾo ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero (Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero ) is a state of Mexico , south of the capital on the Pacific coast. It borders in the northwest on Michoacán , in the north on Morelos and Puebla and on the state of México . In the east it borders on Oaxaca . It has an area of ​​63,794 km² with around 3.167 million inhabitants.

It is named after Vicente Guerrero , a hero of the War of Independence , and was formed in 1849 from the coastal areas of the states of Mexico and Puebla.

The state is administratively divided into 81 municipalities . The capital is Chilpancingo . Well-known cities are the seaside resort of Acapulco , once the most important Pacific port in the country, and the old silver city of Taxco , whose colonial appearance makes it an important tourist attraction. Apart from tourism, there are few significant branches of the economy.

The state is also known in Mexico for the prevailing violence and great poverty, especially among the rural and indigenous people.

Amnesty International , local human rights organizations such as the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center and the UN speak of human rights violations such as impunity, torture , illegal arrests, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Guerrero.

Several guerrilla groups are active in Guerrero, including the EPR and ERPI .

On July 24, 2016, the mayor of Pungarabato was murdered. He had been threatened by criminal organizations. The region is considered a stronghold of drug cartels .

Population development

year	population
1950	919.386
1960	1,186,716
1970	1,597,360
1980	2,109,513
1990	2,620,637
1995	2,916,567
2000	3,079,649
2005	3.115.202
2010	3,388,768
2015	3,533,251

Beach in Ixtapa in the state of Guerrero

Web links

• Homepage of the state of Guerrero
• Tlachinollan Human Rights Center
• Wiener Zeitung : Visit to the scene of the Mexican novel "War in Paradise" by Carlos Montemayor ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayor killed again in Mexico. In: orf.at . July 24, 2016, accessed August 13, 2020.
2. ↑ Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 28, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 17 ° 37 ′  N , 99 ° 57 ′  W