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,Huitzuco de los Figueroa) is located in the Mexican state of
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 ...
. It was founded in the early 19th century. Different versions exist on the meaning of the word Huitzuco, the doctor
Gutierre Tibón
Gutierre Tibón (16 July 1905 – 15 May 1999) was an Italian-Mexican writer. He wrote widely on issues of cultural identity, mixing ideas from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, ethnology, sociology, and political science.
Early ...
affirms that it comes from the Nahuatl ''huitzilizo'' (thorns), and the locative ''co'', and so means as “Place of Thorns”, because their lands were covered with huisache.
References
*http://huitzuco.guerrero.gob.mx/ - Official Government Website
Populated places in Guerrero
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