Ayutla de los Libres (municipality)


Ayutla de los Libres is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Ayutla de los Libres. The municipality covers an area of 735.4 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 60,690, up from 55,954 as of 2005.

Name

The name "Ayutla" comes from Nahuatl Ayotlan meaning "near the tortoises/turtles". The sobriquet "de los Libres" was added after 1854, because the town was the place where the Ayutla Revolution started on March 1, 1854, and where the Ayutla Plan was announced.

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