tixtla de guerrero It is part of the central region of the state and is located on the inner side of the Sierra Madre del Sur,

tixtla de guerrero

Tixtla Township is located in the parallel 17 ° 20 'and 17 ° 43' north latitude and the meridians 99 ° 15 'and 99 ° 28' west longitude the meridian of Greenwich.

It is part of the central region of the state and is located on the inner side of the Sierra Madre del Sur, east of Chilpancingo.

Bordered on the north Cuilapan martyr, on the south Mochitlán and Chilpancingo, on the east and Chilapa Zitlala and west by Eduardo Neri before Zumpango del Rio and Chilpancingo.

The predominant climate in the municipality is the humid, semi-hot, in the months of December and January has the cold, reaching temperatures up to 18 ° C. The average annual temperature reaches 25.5 ° C.

Tixtla de Guerrero (Nahuatl: textli, tla, "corn dough, locative," "in the corn dough")? is a Mexican city of Guerrero, is the capital of the homonymous municipality and part of the central region of the state.

The city of Tixtla it crosses the highway 93 that connects the state capital Chilpancingo the city with Chilapa, Tlapa, and Xochihuehuetlán Huamuxtitlán

Located in the central portion of the state of Guerrero, at coordinates 17 ° 20 'and 17 ° 43' north latitude and the meridians 99 ° 15 'and 99 ° 28' west longitude the meridian of Greenwich and is part the Centre region. Its boundaries are the north by the municipality Cuilapan Martyr, south with the municipalities of Mochitlán and Chilpancingo de los Bravo, on the east and Chilapa Zitlala Alvarez and Eduardo Neri west and Chilpancingo

DANCE

In the city of Tixtla is customary to celebrate the saints of the region, located in different neighborhoods. For the holidays are bright and colorful dances is needed which are described below.

The Devils

So religious, originally from the center of the state, ensures that emerged at the initiative of the clergy, as they try to impress the natives, saying those who did not behave they would become demons.

Apart appear: lucifer as king of the underworld carrying his sword in his belt and a scepter death that symbolizes purity and order of things, carries a scythe in hand, another important figure is the time which represents the life and world, carrying a scythe which suggests the passage of years.

This dance dresses in bright colors, some are men and other women, called devils.All have horns on their heads, they come to dance with some instruments and objects: a wooden box and that means constantly resonates punishment, greed, pride and money, a donkey's jawbone that also make sound and representspunishment for gluttony and theft, a play with rhythm guitar which means the punishment of vice and lust.

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