Teloloapan

Teloloapan lies in the mountains of northern Guerrero. Its name, recorded in a Mexica place glyph, refers to a round stone in water. In the late fifteenth century the town formed part of a fortified frontier facing the Purépecha realm, alongside Oztoman and Alahuiztlan. Settlers from central Mexico helped defend the region against their western rivals.

The town again became a point of conflict during the Mexican War of Independence. Vicente Guerrero took Teloloapan from royalist forces in 1818, and in December 1820 Pedro Ascencio defeated troops under Agustín de Iturbide nearby. The following year Guerrero and Iturbide reached an agreement supporting independence, associated with their meeting in the Teloloapan region. The Plan of Iguala joined former adversaries in a common cause.