chilpancingo , guerrero

chilpancingo

This population took on great importance during the War of Independence from Mexico to be a strategic point for insurgents as José María Morelos y Pavón and brothers Bravo. Morelos, breaking a site in the city of Acapulco on April 13, 1813, decided to give official legal and armed struggle as the recent triumphs and calls on 2 July with the installation of a Congress in Chilpancingo, then that the applicant had given him the title of City of Our Lady of the Assumption on September 8, 1813. The conference was held on September 13, 1813 and officially titled the First Congress of Anahuac and it discloses the 23 Feelings of the Nation. It would also be the place where Morelos decreed the abolition of slavery, the distinction of caste and suspension of taxes on October 5 .

Ayutla During the Revolution in 1854, the city was occupied by troops of Antonio López de Santa Anna as a headquarters in an attempt to quell the revolution in Guerrero. Following the collapse of Santa Anna and his return to Mexico City, the troops of General Juan N. Alvarez recovered the square.

In 1870, the city of Chilpancingo was declared accidental resident of powers by the then Governor General Francis O. Guerrero Arce, after Vicente Jimenez, an opponent of the government to take the city Arce Tixtla, then the state capital. The federal government recognized the new government headquarters where he introduced another local legislature. A year later, to achieve the state government's struggle to extinguish Jimenez, the local legislature definitively determined to change the seat of power and officially established as state capital Chilpancingo.

In 1960 the city entered a severe social crisis, all with the start of a student-popular movement that claimed the autonomy of the then State College (now UAG). These protests led to a general strike at the institution and later coalesced to different forces and social sectors of the city and state, each with a main objective, to achieve the disappearance of powers in the state government of the day, of whom was held by the general Raúl Caballero Aburto. This movement culminated in a massacre of students by the government planned and executed by Mexican army soldiers, and the fall of the governor. [3]

In an unprecedented event, the Municipality of Chilpancingo suspended its work for two weeks in July 2009 as a result of the low liquidity of the municipal coffers resulting from the economic crisis suffered by Mexico in 2009.

Location
The city of Chilpancingo, is located in the center of the state located at coordinates 17 º 11 'and 17 º 37' north latitude and 99 º 24 'and 100 º 09' west, on the Greenwich Meridian