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.
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.
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.
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 presidentTermPolitical partyNotesFelipe Valle1950–1952Enrique Caballero Aburto1952–1955PRI Manuel Castrejón Gómez1956Acting municipal presidentÉlfego Pineda Álvarez1956Acting municipal presidentServando Ríos Mendoza1957–1959Francisco Pineda Flores1960–1962Luis Téllez Bustamante1963–1965Horacio Rangel Ezequiel1965Jaime Castrejón Díez1966–1968José García Chávez1969–1971Alfredo Figueroa Baena1972–1974José Antonio Ortega Figueroa1975–1977Gustavo Martínez Martínez1978–1980Ricardo Figueroa Rodríguez1981–1983José Fernando Benítez López1984–1986Manuel Saidi González1987–1989Enrique Martini Castillo1990–1993Mario Hipólito Flores Pérez1993–1996Marcos Efrén Parra Gómez1996–1999Isaac Ocampo Fernández1999–2002Abraham Ponce Guadarrama2002–2004Fernando Gutiérrez2004–2005Ramiro Jaimes Gómez2005–2007Ma. de los Ángeles Lagunas Vera2007–2008Álvaro Burgos Barrera2008–2011Marco Antonio Sierra Martínez2011–2012Salomón Majul González2012–2015Omar Jalil Flores Majul2015–2018PRI PVEM Marcos Efrén Parra Gómez2018–2021PAN PRD MC Coalition "For Taxco to the Front"Mario Figueroa Mundo2021–2024Force for Mexico Juan Andrés Vega Carranza2024–PVEM PT Morena Coalition "Sigamos Haciendo Historia" (Let's Keep Making History)
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