Ayutla de los Libres (municipality)
Ayutla de los Libres | |
|---|---|
 Municipality o Ayutla de los Libres in Guerrero | |
  Ayutla de los Libres Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°46′N 98°56′W / 16.767°N 98.933°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Guerrero |
| Municipal seat | Ayutla de los Libres |
| Area | |
| • Total | 735.4 km2 (283.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 55,954 |
Ayutla de los Libres (Mixtec: Tatioo[1]) is ane o the 81 municipalities o Guerrero, in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipal seat lees at Ayutla de los Libres. The municipality covers a aurie o 735.4 km².
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 55,954.[2]
Name
[eedit | eedit soorce]The name "Ayutla" comes frae Nahuatl Ayotlan meanin "near the (place o abundance o) tortoises/turtles".[1] The sobriquet "de los Libres" ("o the Free") wis addit efter 1854, acause the toun wis the place whaur the Ayutla Revolution stairtit on 1 Mairch 1854, an whaur the Plan o Ayutla wis annooncit.[1]
Touns
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b c La Jornada Guerrero, SALOMÓN GARCÍA JIMÉNEZ, Ayutla de los Libres, ayer y hoy (English: Ayutla de los Libres, then and now), March 1, 2009 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Ayutla de los Libres". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived frae the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
