Editing Tixtla (section)

==History==

[[Antonia Nava de Catalán]], a heroine of the [[Mexican War of Independence]], was born in Tixtla.<ref>{{citation|language=es|title=Nava de Catalán, Antonia |author=JSA/JOSR|publisher=Guerrero Cultural Siglo XXI|work=enciclopediagro |url=http://www.enciclopediagro.org/index.php/indices/indice-de-biografias/1048-nava-de-catalan-antonia|access-date=2017-11-27}}</ref> 
Tixtla was also the birthplace of both Independence hero and Mexican president [[Vicente Guerrero]] (1783–1831) and writer and educator [[Ignacio Manuel Altamirano]] (1834–1893). 
It served as the first capital of Guerrero, from 1851 to 1870, and the state constitution was promulgated there on 14 June 1851.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://guerrero.gob.mx/municipios/centro/tixtla-de-guerrero/|title=Tixtla de Guerrero|last=Gobierno del Estado de Guerrero: Subdirección de Gobierno en Línea|date=2015-10-28|website=Portal Oficial del Gobierno del Estado de Guerrero|language=es-MX|access-date=2020-02-08}}</ref>