Guerrero

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Guerrero

Location

Statistics
Capital	Chilpancingo
Area	64,281 km² Ranked 14th
Population (2005 census)	3,115,202 Ranked 11th
HDI (2004)	0.7296 - medium Ranked 30th
Governor (2005-2011)	Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo (PRD)
Federal Deputies	PRD: 9
Federal Senators	PRD: 2 PRI: 1
ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr.	MX-GRO Gro.

For other uses, see Guerrero (disambiguation).

Guerrero is a state in Mexico named in honor of the second president of The Republic, General Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (10 August 1782 – 14 February 1831), a hero of the Independence War, who was of African and Amerindian descent. General Guerrero was born in Tixtla, later renamed Tixtla de Guerrero. The state is bordered by the states of Michoacán to the west, México, Morelos, and Puebla to the north, Oaxaca to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Guerrero has an area of about 63,749 km². In 2003, the population was estimated at 3,167,400 people. The state capital is the city of Chilpancingo. Guerrero also contains the cities of Acapulco, Iguala, and Taxco.

The state is an important tourist destination. There are three main areas of tourism, known as the Triángulo del Sol (triangle of the sun). The first is Taxco, a colonial town noted for its silverware. The second is Acapulco. The third is Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo. Ixtapa is a destination created by the federal government to increase tourism during the slow economy of the 1980s. In Mexico the state is also renowned for violence, with vendettas deeply rooted in the local tradition (especially blood feuds between people of the coast and those of the mountains) and drug production in the mountainous interior.

Amnesty International, local Human Rights organizations like the Human Rights Center of the Mountains Tlachinollan as well as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights denounce Human Rights violations like torture, arbitrary detention, forced disappearance and extrajudicial killings in Guerrero.

The climate of Guerrero is tropical for the most part but becomes more moderate closer to the Sierra del Sur.

1 Government and politics
- 1.1 Municipalities
2 Famous people
3 External links

[edit] Government and politics

The Constitution of the State of Guerrero provides that the government of Guerrero, like the government of every other state in Mexico, consists of three powers: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.

Executive power rests in the Governor of Guerrero, who is directly elected by the citizens, using a secret ballot, to a 6-year term with no possibility of reelection. Legislative power rests in the Congress of Guerrero which is a unicameral legislature. Judicial power is invested in the Superior Court of Justice of Guerrero.

[edit] Municipalities

See Main article: Municipalities of Guerrero

The State of Guerrero is divided into 76 municipalities, each headed by a municipal president (mayor). Most municipalities are named after the city that serves as municipal seat; e.g. the municipial seat of the Municipality of Chilpancingo is the City of Chilpancingo de los Bravos.