Chilpancingo

American  

[cheel-pahn-seeng-gaw] / ˌtʃil pɑnˈsiŋ gɔ /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Guerrero, in SW Mexico.

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Chilpancingo British  

/ tʃilpanˈθiŋɡo /

noun

1. a town in S Mexico, capital of Guerrero state, in the Sierra Madre del Sur. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Alejandro Arcos was found dead on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024

In Chilpancingo, the last major city along the highway before Acapulco, people were stocking up on basics to distribute to those battered by the hurricane.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2023

On Wednesday, under constant rain in Chilpancingo, Guerrero’s capital, firefighters waded through brown water, while the authorities shined flashlights on splintered buildings.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

In 1813, at the apex of his military career, Morelos convened a wartime congress in the town of Chilpancingo that declared Mexico’s independence from Spain.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The apparent sympatry in the Chilpancingo region involves four species: S. pipilans, T. albolabris, T. dilatus, and T. nitidus.

From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by Lynch, John D.