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Tlapa In General


The morphologic complexity that presents/displays the state is the exogenous result of the combination of endogenous processes (geologic phenomena that they have in the interior of the Orb) and phenomena (phenomena which they take place in the surface of the planet, as well as of rocks that has formed in her).

Traditionally in the state of Guerrero one has denominated Mountain range to the western sector and Mountain to the Eastern sector. Independently of other factors that can be taken into account for this regional differentiation, first one characterizes by the continuity and height of his greater edge, where a series of hills is aligned, whereas the mountain presents/displays few heights superior to the 2.000 meters.

The Mountain range Mother of the South that is developed throughout 500 kilometers, compares to the pacific coast, poseé the characteristic to have its crest to an altitude of 2.000 meters, nevertheless it counts on some elevations that exceed the 3.000 meters on the level of the sea, located in the western sector and which they constitute the highest summits of the guerrerense organization. In summary, the state of Guerrero counts on a rough geomorfología where the plains, plateaus and valleys are not facilmente.


FLORA. -

The flora and fauna of state are characterized predominantly by being in tropical warm climates, although Guerrero, by its own morfologia, geographic account with other species that are more common in climates and medium altitudes.

Reason why it touches to the flora, amates, manglares and palmares can be observed throughout the coast, mainly in the regions of Acapulco and the Great Coast.

In spurs they excel: chijol, huanacastle, parota, spring, Ramon, mahogany and red cedar. The encinos and ocotes appear from the 500 meters of altitude and arise in the mountain range, with white wood, madrono, linalóe, aile, pine, pinion and coniferous.

In the semidesert areas they exist huizache regularly, agave and and mezquite great variety cactaceous.

Guerrero also distinguishes by seedtime and the consumption of medicinal plants like anise, achiote, arnica, borraja, boldo, canafistola, crucecillo, cuachalote, estafiate, eucaliptol, floweriness, gordolobo, guarumba, charity fair, manzanilla, mejorana, pericón, ping5uica, tea of the mount, tlachicón, thyme, toloache, zábila and viborilla, of origin chiapaneco.

For ebanistería it counts on wood of amate, mahogany, ebony, encino, ash, walnut, pine, wood Maria, parota, rivets, tepeguaje and quiebracha. As curtientes plants are told mangle, nanche, yellow rattan, madrollo, Colorado, cascalote, cueramo, copalchi and stamp and to produce dyes achiote, huizache, mahuitle, wood of Brazil, wood of Logwood, blood of dragon tree are used, you would tampinceran and sáuz.

Of other plants raw materials like pochote are used and ceiba, abundant in the coast of the state, that provides fiber used in the processing of pillows and cushions.

In the cultures of oily, we have coyol coquillo (or coQuito of oil), higuerilla, ocra, peanut and sesame. Also it is possible to be obtained rubber of copal, huamúchil, mezquite, guacebo and exist other species that provide raw materials for crafts, like the reed, cirián, cuauxtle, mulato wood, íxtle or zayote, otate and orange.

The fruit trees like the lemon, capulín, bonote, caimito, huamúchil, nanche, handle, tamarind, ilama, almond tree, tree of the bread, mara6nona, guanabana, guayabo and melon, are common in Guerrero.

FAUNA. -
The fauna is combined between which it lives in earth and the one that is developed in the sea or the rivers and lagoons. Next those more common species are only mentioned:

Insects: wasps, bees, chicharra, termite, cochinilla of the nopal, jumiles, scorpion, butterflies, jején and mosquito.

Reptiles: chameleon, crocodile, coralilla, viper of snail, chirrionera, scorpion, iguana, tilcuate and turtle.

Birds: aguililla, owl, calandria, cardinal, carpenter, quail, colibrí or chupamirto, cotorra, chachalaca, pheasant, will cormorán or duck diver, garrapatero, white heron, dwelled heron, gull, sparrowhawk, wanderer, sparrow, guacamayo, guaco, huilota, finch, lechuza, parrot, dove, pelican, spring, breaks bones, tecolote, tordo, magpie, pichince, zanate, and buzzard.

Mammals: squirrel, armadillo, cacomixtle, rabbit, coyote, wild cat, wild boar, jaguar, wolf, raccoon, marta, anteater, ounce, porcupine, puma or American lion, tejón, tigrillo, tlacuache, tuza, vixen, zorrillo.

Fish: catfish, small barrel, carp, dogfish, curvina, charal, huachinango, jurel, lenguado, list, mojarra, pargo, robalo, hoarse, mountain range and shark.

Moluscos: abulón, snail, ostión, clam, squid and callus of axe.

Crustaceans: calamary, shrimp, jaiba, lobster and prawn.


The main economic activity of the state is agriculture, pués represents 85% of all the minicipios and their production. Sinembargo, in most of the cases, is for autoconsumo. In some municipalities of the coasts and Hot Earth they only commercialize excessive towards other markets, since to a large extent the harvest is of weather.

The second economic activity is the local commerce and later it is the cattle activity, based on the number of muncipio where it practices (mainly of cattle). The cattle activity is developed in the Small Coast and the region of the Mountain; this last one is for autoconsumo.

The tourist and commercial activity is developed mainly in Acapulco, Taxco and the municipality of Jose Azueta.

Chilpancingo of the Bravos, State Capital, its activity is sustained to a great extent in the public servico.

The industry assembly plant this represented in the municipalities of Buenavista de Cuéllar and Brave Leonardo and artisan is located in Olinalá, Zitlala, Xochistlahuaca and Tetipac.

The municipalities of the coastal regions make of incipiente way the fishing activity (ribere6na fishes), since its production is for local consumption. Nevertheless in the lagoon of Chautengo the project for culture of white shrimp has settled.

REGION OF THE MOUNTAIN. -
Zone marginalized and of extreme poverty, where most of their inhabitants indígenes of different ethnic groups and dialectos belong to groups. Region that indice of analfabetización tells on a stop, deficiency of services basic public and lack of wagon infrastructure and public security. Most of his accesses they are by ways of terracería and some of them in season of rains are inaccessible.

They are not counted on plans, programs of development or projects that serve to take advantage of the potencilidades their natural resources that generate sources of uses.

REGION OF SMALL COAST. -
The communities that are remote of the coast are affected by the marginalization and extreme poverty. It is not counted either on basic services and their access roads are mainly of terracería. Its population is formed of ethnic groups of different dialectos and in his majority they are illiterate.

In this region the more important cattle activity of the state is developed. They make lack programs that reinforce the genetic improvement of the cattle and the investment in balanced food factories is its first proposito. In addition it counts on a high potential to generate acuacultura projects and to impel the fishing on great scale, development of fruit and agro-industrial orchards.

The delay of this region is due mainly to the nonexistence of specific plans to generate productive projects with high content of manual labor.

The municipalities that are located in the coast, despite counting on fertiles earth for the agricultural and cattle activity, present/display a incipiente agro-industrial development. Their inhabitants continue marginalized by the lack of formal use, deficiency of services basic public and infrastructure of means and channels of communication.

NORTH REGION. -
This zone also counts on municipalities that lack services public and access roads. In addition to the lack of formal uses to be able to satisfy its basic necessities. Sinembargo other localities, by virtue of their proximity with the states of Morelos and Mexico, have had a better development when establishing assembly plants and to take advantage of the tourist affluence to populations like a the city of Taxco.

REGION GREAT COAST. -
Region that is distinguished by its great potential of natural wealth (coastal, lumber forests, fruit orchards and fertile earth), but its economic development is very slow and the productivity has only taken advantage of its earth lagoons and sea.

The economic development of these communities has been affected mainly by the insecurity. Localities like Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo and others, located to the rededor of the coast, count on tourist affluence, agroindustrias, orchards of coconut palms, but they have been affected by the lack of channels of access and federal security in the ways.

ACAPULCO REGION. -
The region that conforms the municipality of Acapulco counts on the greater population density and of great social and economic resistances. It is not counted on a formal scheme of planning to impel the development of other economic activities that generate a growth more balancing.

The port of Acapulco, by its tourist activity, generates the highest index of igresos of the state production. It is in this locality where but the high investments occur, nevertheless a growth balanced in the standard of life of most of the population is not reflected.

REGION CENTER. -
Approximately half of the municipalities counts on access roads and services public which has allowed, although of very slow way, the economic development of some communities. Other half of this region lacks physical and economic infrastructure, reason why the impulse to the programs becomes necessary of works of infrastructure of irrigation of channels, construction of prey and the terrosos paving of breaches and ways.

REGION HOT EARTH. -
The economic development of this zone is based on agriculture, although most of its municipalities lack physical and economic infrastructure.
It is counted on propitious earth for the agriculture of fruits on great scale, activity that is not operated devido to the lack of construction of prey and irrigation channels that allow one better distribution of the water.


1, Acapulco de Juárez
2, Ahuacuotzingo
3, Ajuchitlán of the Progress
4, Alcozauca of Guerrero
5, Alpoyeca
6, Apaxtla de Castrejón
7, Arcelia
8, Atenango of the River
9, Atlamajalcingo of Monte
10. Atlixtac
11. Atoyac de Alvarez
12. Ayutla of the Free ones
13. Azoyú
14. Benito Juárez
15. Buenavista de Cuellar
16. Cuahuayutla of Guerrero
17. Cocula
18. Copala
19. Copalillo
20. Copanatoyac
21. Coyuca de Benitez
22. Coyuca of Catalan
23. Cuajinicuilapa
24. Cualac
25. Cuautepec

26. Cuetzala of the Progress
27. Cutzamala de Pinzón
28. Chilapa de Alvarez
29. Chilpancingo of the Brave ones
30. Florencio Villarreal
31. General Canuto To Neri
32. General Heliodoro Castle
33. Huamuxtitlán
34. Huitzuco of the Figueroa
35. It equals of Independence
36. Igualapa
37. Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc
38. Jose Azueta
39. Juan R. Escudero
40. Brave Leonardo
41. Malinaltepec
42. Martyr of Cuilapan
43. Metlatónoc
44. Mochitlán
45. Olinalá
46. Ometepec
47. Pedro Ascencio Alquisiras
48. Petatlán
49. Pilcaya
50. Pungarabato
51. Quechultenango
52. San Luis Acatlán
53. San Marcos
54. San Miguel Totolapan
55. Taxco de Alarcón
56. Teconapa
57. Tecpan de Galeana
58. Teloloapan
59. Tepecoacuilco de Trujano
60. Tetipac
61, tixtla of Guerrero
62. Tlacoachistlahuaca
63. Tlacoapa
64. Tlalchapa
65. Tlalixtaquilla de Maldonado
66. Tlapa de Comonfort
67. Tlapehuala
68. Union.
69. Xalpatlahuac
70. Xochistlahuetlán
71. Xochistlahuaca
72. Zapotitlán Tables
73. Zirándaro of the Chávez
74. Zitlala
75. Eduardo Neri
76. Acatepec


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