Taxco de Alarcón (municipality)

Taxco de Alarcón is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western Mexico. It covers an area of 650.7 km² and includes 121 communities. The municipal seat lies at Taxco de Alarcón. The population was 105,586 at the time of the 2020 census.[1]

Taxco de Alarcón
The capital city, Taxco de Alarcón
The capital city, Taxco de Alarcón
Official seal of Taxco de Alarcón
Taxco de Alarcón is located in Mexico
Taxco de Alarcón
Taxco de Alarcón
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 18°23′N 99°29′W
Country Mexico
StateGuerrero
Municipal seatTaxco de Alarcón
Area
  Total650.7 km2 (251.2 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total105,586

Less than 3% of the population of the municipality is of pure indigenous ethnicity according to the Census. The two indigenous languages spoken here are Nahuatl and Zapotec. It borders with the municipalities of Tetipac, Iguala, Teloloapan, Buena Vista de Cuellar, Pedro Ascencio Alquisiras and Ixcateopan as well at the state of Morelos.

The terrain has an average altitude of 1,752 meters, which ranges from 1,000 meters to 2,300 meters. Seventy five percent of its territory consists of rugged mountains, twenty percent is semi-flat and only five percent is flat. The flatter lands are in the lower elevations. The major rivers here are the Taxco and the Temixco, with a number of arroyos that feed into them during the rainy season. There is a lake that is filled only part of the year and a small dam called San Marcos.

The climate in Taxco ranges from hot and relatively moist in the flatlands to warm and relatively moist in the higher mountainous areas. Average temperatures for the year range between 18 and 20 C. Most of the municipality is covered in semi-tropical foliage which has a tendency to drop leaves during the dry season from October to May. In the highest elevations, pine and oak forests can be found.[2]

Most of the municipality's natural resources lie underground in the form of gold, silver, lead, copper, and zinc deposits. Above ground a number of species of timber trees exist as well as areas for agriculture and livestock. Principle crops grown in the municipality are corn, peanuts, luffa sponges, beans and tomatillos. Livestock consists of pigs, goats, horses and some fowl. Most of the industry here revolves around mining precious metals as well as the manufacture of drywall and masonry materials.[2]

Demography

SettlementPopulation
Taxco de Alarcón50,399
Tlamacazapa6,820
Acamixtla5,301
Acuitlapán4,376
Taxco El Viejo3,172
Juliantla694
Total Municipality 105,586

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal president Term Political party Notes
Felipe Valle[3] 1950–1952
Enrique Caballero Aburto 1952–1955 PRI
Manuel Castrejón Gómez 1956 Acting municipal president
Élfego Pineda Álvarez 1956 Acting municipal president
Servando Ríos Mendoza 1957–1959
Francisco Pineda Flores 1960–1962
Luis Téllez Bustamante 1963–1965
Horacio Rangel Ezequiel 1965
Jaime Castrejón Díez 1966–1968
José García Chávez[4][5] 1969–1971
Alfredo Figueroa Baena 1972–1974
José Antonio Ortega Figueroa 1975–1977
Gustavo Martínez Martínez 1978–1980
Ricardo Figueroa Rodríguez 1981–1983
José Fernando Benítez López 1984–1986
Manuel Saidi González 1987–1989
Enrique Martini Castillo 1990–1993
Mario Hipólito Flores Pérez 1993–1996
Marcos Efrén Parra Gómez 1996–1999
Isaac Ocampo Fernández 1999–2002
Abraham Ponce Guadarrama 2002–2004
Fernando Gutiérrez 2004–2005
Ramiro Jaimes Gómez 2005–2007
Ma. de los Ángeles Lagunas Vera 2007–2008
Álvaro Burgos Barrera 2008–2011
Marco Antonio Sierra Martínez 2011–2012
Salomón Majul González 2012–2015
Omar Jalil Flores Majul 2015–2018 PRI
PVEM
Marcos Efrén Parra Gómez 2018–2021 PAN
PRD
MC
Coalition "For Taxco to the Front"
Mario Figueroa Mundo 2021– Force for Mexico

References

  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (23 February 2021). "Panorama sociodemográfico de Guerrero" (PDF). INEGI (in Spanish). pp. 138–139. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  2. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y de Desarrollo Municipal (2005). "Taxco de Alarcón". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 May 2007. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
  3. "Enciclopedia Guerrerense. Taxco de Alarcón. Cronología de Presidentes municipales" (in Spanish). Guerrero Cultural Siglo XXI, A.C. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Estado de Guerrero. Taxco de Alarcón" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. "Taxcolandia. El Portal de Taxco. Cronología de los presidentes municipales" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.


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