Tixtla de Guerrero is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero

Municipalities of Guerrero

The Mexican state of Guerrero is divided into 81 municipalities :...

, in south-western Mexico

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. The municipal seat lies at Tixtla de Guerrero. The municipality covers an area of 290 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 37,300.

Towns and villages

In 2005, the INEGI registered 37 localities in the municipality of Tixtla de Guerrero, these are the largest:

Locality	Population
Total Population	37,300
Tixtla	21,720
Atliaca	7,439
Zoquiapa	1,512
Almolonga Almolonga The Almolonga volcano, sometimes also called "Cerro Quemado" , is an andesitic stratovolcano in the south-western department of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala...	1,220
El Durazno	1,095
Zacatzonapa	796
Chilacachapa	481

Municipal presidents

Municipal President	Period
Albino López Catalán	(1969-1971)
Hermenegildo Rodríguez Hernández	(1972-1974)
Vicente Astudillo Alcaraz	(1975-1977)
Román Catalán Bervera	(1978-1980)
Pascual Póctzin Martínez	(1981-1983)
Timoteo Valle Alcaraz	(1984-1986)
Julia Jiménez Alarcón	(1987-1989)
Hugo Cesáreo Astudillo Bello	(1990-1993)
Edelmira Hernández Alcaraz	(1993-1996)
J. Jesús Pastenes Hernández	(1996-1999)
Jorge Vargas Alcaraz	(1999-2002)
Edgardo Astudillo Morales	(2002-2005)
Rogelio Nava Peralta	(2005-2008)
Jorge Luis Campos Espíritu	(2009-2012) Actual Presidente Electo