Taxco de Alarcón (municipality)

Taxco de Alarcón is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero. 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
Municipality
The capital city, Taxco de Alarcón
Seal
Taxco de Alarcón Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 18°23′N 99°29′W
Country	Mexico
State	Guerrero
Municipal seat	Taxco de Alarcón
Area
• Total	650.7 km2 (251.2 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	105,586

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.

Geography

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]

Economy

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

Settlement	Population
Taxco de Alarcón	50,399
Tlamacazapa	6,820
Acamixtla	5,301
Acuitlapán	4,376
Taxco El Viejo	3,172
Juliantla	694
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	2021–2024	Force for Mexico
Juan Andrés Vega Carranza[6]	2024–	PVEM PT Morena	Coalition "Sigamos Haciendo Historia" (Let's Keep Making History)

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. "National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (Inafed). On the left column, please click on "Información Histórica". Then, from the drop-down menu, select "Presidentes Municipales". Search for the state or federal entity and then the desired municipality. Guerrero. Taxco de Alarcón" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2024.
5. "Taxcolandia. El Portal de Taxco. Cronología de los presidentes municipales" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
6. "La seguridad en Taxco, su prioridad, dice Juan Vega tras recibir su constancia de mayoría". El Sur Acapulco (in Spanish). 6 June 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.