Cuajinicuilapa

Cuajinicuilapa is the head town of the municipality of the same name in the Costa Chica region of the Mexican state of Guerrero. A low-lying area, it borders the Pacific Ocean and the state of Oaxaca. The municipality has the state's largest population of Afro-Mexicans with most of the population of this ethnicity. The town and municipality are highly socioeconomically marginalized and it is the poorest municipality of the state, with the economy dependent on livestock and fishing.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Cuajinicuilapa
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: CuajiPlaza.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Main plaza of Cuajinicuilapa
Settlement.image_seal: Mpiocuajilogo.jpg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Mexico Guerrero#Mexico
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: above
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Guerrero
Settlement.leader_title: Municipal President

Article

6 sections

Contents

The town
Demographics and culture
Geography
Economy
History
References

==The town== The town of Cuajinicuilapa is 361 km from the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo and has an altitude of fifty meters above sea level. While it is the commercial center of a rural municipality with two small supermarkets, various stores and a traditional municipal market, it has a high level of socioeconomic marginalization. It is also the center of communications and transportation with mail service and telephone mostly limited to here and it has a small airstrip.