Coyuca De Catalán (municipality)
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Coyuca de Catalán is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the
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of
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, being the largest municipality in Guerrero. The municipal seat lies at
Coyuca de Catalán Coyuca de Catalán is a city and seat of the municipality of Coyuca de Catalán, in the state of Guerrero, southern Mexico. Formerly called Coyuca, the town was named Coyuca de Catalán in honour of Nicolás Catalán, son of Antonia Nava de Ca ...
. The municipality covers an area of 921.9 km2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 41,975. There were 234 confirmed cases and 24 deaths related to the
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as of February 24, 2021.


Geography


Towns and villages

In 2005 there were 376 settlements. The largest are as follows:


Administration


Municipal presidents


Organized crime

A group of gunmen entered ''Puerto El Bálsamo'', burning 60 houses and looting 15 (
mezcal Mezcal (, ), sometimes spelled mescal, is a liquor, distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave. Agaves or magueys are endemic to the Americas and found globally as ornamental plants. The ''Agave'' genus is a member of the Agavoid ...
factories) in 2020. 320 mezcal producers left the town of ''Zihuaquio'' on January 26, 2020 after attacks by criminal groups operating in the area. Mezcal provides income in several towns, but due to constant confrontations between alleged drug traffickers, people have had to leave and cannot harvest their crops. Two women who had been kidnapped by ''
La Familia Michoacana La Familia Michoacana (, LFM; English: ''The Michoacán Family''), La Familia (English: ''The Family''), is a Mexican drug cartel & organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacán. They are known to produce large amounts of m ...
'' and eight members of the cartel were killed in a confrontation between members of the cartel and townspeople of Hacienda de Dolores on February 25, 2021. Residents of Los Guajes de Ayala used social media in June 2021 to ask for federal help after three days of being held hostage by ''La Familia Michoacana''. The area is in the middle of the gold and the drug trade.


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