Ayotzinapa is a locality located in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Tixtla de Guerrero Tixtla (formally, Tixtla de Guerrero ) is a town and seat of the Tixtla de Guerrero Municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The name is Nahuatl, and means either "maize dough" ''(masa) ''from ''textli;'' "our valley" from ''to ixtla;'' ...

, in the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

Guerrero Guerrero is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo and its largest city is Acapulcocopied from article, GuerreroAs of 2020, Guerrero the pop ...

in southwestern Mexico.

History

The present locality of Ayotzinapa has its origin in a hacienda that received the same name and owned by Sebastián de Viguri. In 1813 in the nearby city of

Chilpancingo Chilpancingo de los Bravo (commonly shortened to Chilpancingo; ; Nahuatl: Chilpantsinko) is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Guerrero, Mexico. In 2010 it had a population of 187,251 people. The municipality has an area of in ...

José María Morelos José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón () (30 September 1765 – 22 December 1815) was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of ...

proclaimed the

Sentimientos de la Nación ''Sentimientos de la Nación'' ("Feelings of the Nation"; occasionally rendered as "Sentiments of the Nation") was a document presented by José María Morelos y Pavón, leader of the insurgents in the Mexican War of Independence, to the National ...

, a document that deeply impressed Viguri, especially that part in which he called for «the poor's wages to be increased, to improve their customs, driving away ignorance, rapine and theft. Motivated by this and on his own initiative, on 16 September 1818, he distributed part of the land of his Ayotzinapa hacienda to a group of peasants without property, so that they could work it, and reserved another sector - among which was the old quarter of the hacienda ― so that it would be administered in such a way that, with the products and sales of the crops, the elderly, sick and disabled would be financially supported. Over time, these lands came to be administered for that purpose by the Tixtla de Guerrero City Council, until 1931, when teachers Rodolfo A. Bonilla and Raúl Isidro Burgos requested the land to establish a normal school on them, which until now that moment it worked in several rented houses in Tixtla; the City Council responded favorably and earmarked the land for the construction of what would be known as

Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College, best known as Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, is a higher level institution for men only, located in Ayotzinapa, in the municipality of Tixtla in the Mexican state of Guerrero. It is part of t ...

References

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