Cutzamala de Pinzón
Cutzamala de Pinzón | |
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Municipal seat an toun | |
  Cutzamala de Pinzón Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 18°08′03″N 99°42′52″W / 18.13417°N 99.71444°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Guerrero |
| Municipality | Cutzamala de Pinzón |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 2,276 |
Cutzamala de Pinzón is a toun, an seat o the surroondin municipality o the same name, in the Mexican state o Guerrero. As o 2005 the toun haes a population o 2276. It is locatit in the far northwastren pairt o the state, on the border wi Michoacán.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Eutimo Pinzón, aften considered the hero o Cutzamala, wis the general who defendit the toun durin the French Intervention o 1864.
The name Cutzamala comes frae a Nahuatl wird cutzamatl meanin "weasel"; hence, "Place o Weasels". It wis kent tae Purepecha speakers as "Apatzingán", which haes the same meanin. An alternative theory suggests the Nahuatl wird cutzamallot, meanin "rainbae."[1]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Guerrero - Cutzamala de Pinzón". Archived frae the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 26 Februar 2013.
- 1st. Offeecial Wabpage Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
- http://cutzamala.mexico.org[deid airtin]
- http://www.cutzamala.com/modules.php?name=historia Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.cutzamala.com
