Pineda is a small village in the municipality of
Coyuca de Catalan, state of
Guerrero
Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero, is one of the 32 states that compose the administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guerrero, 85 municipalities. The stat ...
, Mexico. It is in the region known as
Tierra Caliente
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and is at an altitude of .
Its history goes back to indigenous peoples, known as the Talistaca. Shortly after the
Spanish Conquest
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It ...
, a family with the surname Pineda built haciendas on the lands formerly occupied by the Talistaca. These eventually developed into a village, which was named after the family.
According to data from the
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
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, the
census
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of 2005 showed Pineda with a population of 842 inhabitants, of whom 413 were men and 429 women.
Populated places in Guerrero
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