San Miguel Totolapan is a city and seat of the
municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, in the 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 ...
, south-western
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
The
Cuitlatec language
Cuitlatec, or Cuitlateco, is an extinct language of Mexico, formerly spoken by an indigenous people known as Cuitlatec.
Classification
Cuitlatec has not been convincingly classified as belonging to any language family. It is believed to be a ...
, now extinct, used to be spoken in San Miguel Totolapan. Juana Can, the last speaker of Cuitlatec, is believed to have died in San Miguel Totolapan in the 1960s.
On 5 October 2022 members of the Los Tequileros criminal gang opened fire on the town hall, killing eighteen people, including the mayor Conrado Mendoza Almeda and his father.
References
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Populated places in Guerrero