Apango (the

municipal seat A municipal seat or ''cabecera municipal'' is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a municipality or civil parish with other villes or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil, Colombia,Mártir de Cuilapán Mártir de Cuilapán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The municipal seat lies at Apango. The municipality covers an area of 499.8 km2. Before the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the area was known as Coixcas Coixcas d ...

) is a town located 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 ...

, approximately 35 km away from the state capital

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 ...

. Nearby, a ruined temple which is the sole evidence of the

Coixcas Coixcas describes a pre-conquest community, and its inhabitants, located between the modern Mexican towns of Tixtla and Apango. The Coixcas people resisted and repulsed attempts by the Aztecs to conquer their community. The area was later cap ...

can be found.

Demography

The Population and Housing count carried out in 2005 by the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Data Processing indicated that the town had 3987 inhabitants - 1870 male and 2111 female.
Walking in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe
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