Guerrero

Guerrero is a state on the of . Almost all of Guerrero's tourism is concentrated among the cities of Acapulco, Zihuatanejo and Taxco, which the state promotes as the “Triángulo del Sol”. Acapulco is by far the most important of the three.
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is the original resort town. It is a historic port city that during the Spanish Empire served as a terminus for trade between Mexico and the Philippines. The trade route between and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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is the capital of Guerrero, . It is a popular stop on the drive between and and is known for a large festival the week before Christmas each year.

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is a beautiful city in built on a hill in Guerrero. It is rich with old and new silver mines in the surrounding areas with narrow winding streets and hundreds of silver shops.

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is a city of 133,000 people in Guerrero, . It is known as the "city of tamarinds" for its tamarind trees surrounding the downtown cathedral.

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is a city of 130,000 people on the of in the state of Guerrero. It is a fishing village that has developed into one of the most-visited areas in Mexico.

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is a resort town on the of in the state of Guerrero. Rolling mountains and sparkling beaches. was planned and built in the early 1970s on a former coconut plantation and mangrove estuary near the city of , which is 5 km away.

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de Cuauhtémoc is a small town of about 2,400 residents in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. It is a place rich in indigenous traditions dating back to the town's founding in 350 AD as a Cohuixca and Chontal settlement.

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, or ' Playa Troncones', is a small coastal town about 20 miles north west of Zihuatanejo on the Pacific Coast of in the state of Guerrero.

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is a national park in the state of Guerrero in southwestern . The park's main feature is its extensive cavern system, one of the largest in Mexico.

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is a town in Guerrero, . Cuaji, as the locals call it, is the home of Afro-Mexicans. Its highlight is a beautiful little museum to the history of Afro-Mexicans in the country.

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is a very small fishing village at the southern end of beautiful Playa Blanca in the state of Guerrero along the of . The area is mostly known for days trips from local inland communities and from Zihuatanejo.

Guerrero

  • Type: State with 3,540,000 residents
  • Description: state in Mexico
  • Also known as: “Cihuātlān”, “Država Gerero”, “Edogro”, “estado de Guerrero”, “Estado libre y soberano de Guerrero”, “Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero”, “Etat de Guerrero”, “État de Guerrero”, “Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero”, “Gerero valstija”, “Gro.”, “Guerrerense”, “La Poderosa”, “MX-GRO”, “Држава Гереро”, “გერერო”, “Գերերո”, “ولايه غيريرو”, and “ゲレロ州”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: state of Mexico and locality
  • Location: , ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
17.6667° or 17° 40′ north
Longitude of center
-100° or 100° west
Population
3,540,000
Elevation
1,161 metres (3,809 feet)
Abbreviation
“GRO”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626900
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3527213
Wiki­data ID
Q60158
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Guerrero” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ገሬሮ”
  • Arabic: “ولاية غيريرو”
  • Aragonese: “Estato de Guerrero”
  • Aragonese: “Estau de Guerrero”
  • Armenian: “Գեռերո”
  • Asturian: “Guerrero”
  • Aymara: “Guerrero Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qerrero”
  • Balinese: “Guerrero”
  • Basque: “Guerrero”
  • Belarusian: “Герэра”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Герэра”
  • Bengali: “গেরেরো”
  • Breton: “Guerrero”
  • Bulgarian: “Гереро”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Guerrero”
  • Catalan: “Guerrero”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Guerrero”
  • Chechen: “Герреро”
  • Cheyenne: “Guerrero”
  • Chinese: “格雷罗州”
  • Chinese: “格雷羅州”
  • Cornish: “Guerrero”
  • Croatian: “Guerrero”
  • Czech: “Guerrero”
  • Danish: “Guerrero”
  • Dutch: “Guerrero”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيريرو”
  • Esperanto: “Gerero”
  • Esperanto: “Guerrero”
  • Estonian: “Guerrero osariik”
  • Estonian: “Guerrero”
  • Finnish: “Guerrero”
  • French: “Guerrero”
  • Galician: “Estado de Guerrero”
  • Georgian: “გერეროს შტატი”
  • German: “Guerrero”
  • Greek: “Γκερρέρο”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Guerrero”
  • Gujarati: “એન્ગ્લુઇશ”
  • Hausa: “Guerrero”
  • Hebrew: “גררו”
  • Hindi: “गेरेरो”
  • Hindi: “ग्वेरेरो”
  • Hungarian: “Guerrero”
  • Icelandic: “Guerrero”
  • Ido: “Guerrero”
  • Iloko: “Guerrero”
  • Indonesian: “Guerrero”
  • Interlingua: “Guerrero”
  • Irish: “Guerrero”
  • Italian: “Guerrero”
  • Japanese: “ゲレーロ州”
  • Javanese: “Guerrero”
  • Kannada: “ಎನ್ಗ್ಲುಯಿಷ್”
  • Kazakh: “Герреро”
  • Kirghiz: “Герреро”
  • Korean: “게레로주”
  • Ladino: “Guerrero”
  • Latin: “Guerrero”
  • Latvian: “Gerrero”
  • Lithuanian: “Gereras”
  • Macedonian: “Гереро”
  • Malagasy: “Guerrero”
  • Malay: “Guerrero”
  • Marathi: “गेरेरो”
  • Mazanderani: “گوئررو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guerrero Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guerrero”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guerrero”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Guerrero”
  • Norwegian: “Guerrero”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guerrero”
  • Oromo: “Guerrero”
  • Ossetian: “Герреро”
  • Pampanga: “Guerrero”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਇਰੇਰੋ”
  • Persian: “گررو”
  • Persian: “گوئررو”
  • Piemontese: “Guerrero”
  • Pipil: “Guerrero”
  • Polish: “Guerrero”
  • Portuguese: “Guerrero”
  • Pushto: “گرئرو”
  • Quechua: “Guerrero suyu”
  • Romanian: “Guerrero”
  • Romansh: “Guerrero”
  • Russian: “Герреро”
  • Sardinian: “Gherreru”
  • Sardinian: “Guerrero”
  • Scots: “Guerrero”
  • Serbian: “Гереро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guerrero”
  • Silesian: “Guerrero”
  • Sinhala: “එන්ග්ලුයිෂ්”
  • Sinhala: “ගුරේරෝ ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Guerrero”
  • Slovenian: “Guerrero”
  • Somali: “Guerrero”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Guerrero”
  • Spanish: “Guerrero”
  • Swahili: “Guerrero”
  • Swedish: “Guerrero”
  • Tagalog: “Guerrero”
  • Tajik: “Герреро”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Герреро”
  • Tamil: “எங்கிலிஷ்”
  • Tatar: “Герреро (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Герреро”
  • Telugu: “గుయెరేరో”
  • Thai: “รัฐเกร์เรโร”
  • Tumbuka: “Guerrero”
  • Turkish: “Guerrero”
  • Ukrainian: “Герреро”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґерреро”
  • Urdu: “گیریرو”
  • Uzbek: “Gerrero”
  • Venetian: “Guerrero”
  • Vietnamese: “Guerrero”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guerrero”
  • Welsh: “Guerrero”
  • Western Frisian: “Guerrero (steat)”
  • Western Frisian: “Guerrero”
  • Western Mari: “Герреро”
  • Western Panjabi: “گرریرو”
  • Wu Chinese: “格雷罗州”
  • Yue Chinese: “格雷羅州”
  • “Guerrero”
  • “ma Kelelo”

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