Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc (municipality)

Infobox Settlement
name = Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc
settlement_type = Municipality
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Mexico
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Guerrero
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leader_title = Municipal president
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subdivision_type2 = Municipal seat
subdivision_name2 = Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc
subdivision_type3 = Largest city
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timezone = CST
utc_offset = -6
timezone_DST = CDT
utc_offset_DST = -5
latd =18 | latm =25 | lats = | latNS =N
longd =99 | longm=46 | longs= | longEW =W
website= [http://www.guerrero.gob.mx/?P=ixcateopan_de_cuauhtemoc Ixcateopan] es icon
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Ixtcateopan de Cuauhtémoc is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state of Guerrero. It is located in the parallel 18°25’ of north latitude and between the meridians 99°42’ and 99°51’ of west longitude. The distance between Ixcateopan and Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, is 180 km.

Ixcateopan has a territorial extension of 310.7 square kilometers. According with the 2000 INEGI census Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc has a population of 2296 habitants. [cite web |url=http://galileo.inegi.gob.mx/website/mexico/viewer.htm?bsqTable=77&bsqField=CVEMUN&bsqStr=12037&TName=MGM&seccionB=mdm |title=Mapa Digital de México |accessdate=2008-01-29]

The name “Ixcateopan” is composed by the word “ixcatl” which means cotton, and “teopantli” which means temple, and the complete name means “In the temple of cotton". [cite web |url=http://www.guerrero.gob.mx/?P=ixcateopan_de_cuauhtemoc |title=Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc |accessdate=2008-01-27]

The main activities of the town are carpentry, farming and livestock raising. It claims to be the final resting place of Aztec "huey tlatoani" Cuauhtémoc.

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