Ñuu Savi
Ñuu Savi is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero. It is located southeast of the state capital of Chilpancingo. Its creation from the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres was approved in 2021 and went into force on 21 May 2022.
Geography
The municipality of Ñuu Savi is located in the Costa Chica region of eastern Guerrero. It borders the municipalities of Acatepec to the north, San Luis Acatlán to the east, Cuautepec to the south, and Ayutla de los Libres to the west. The municipality covers an area of.Ñuu Savi has a subhumid temperate climate with rain in the summer. Average temperatures range between, and average annual precipitation is between.
History
Coapinola, the municipal seat of Ñuu Savi, is the oldest settlement in the area, and was once a centre of Mixtec local government. The area fell under control of the Mexica Empire in 1487 and was incorporated into the province of Ayotlán on the border with Yopitzinco, the territory of the Yope people.The perpetual marginalization of the Mixtec inhabitants of Ayutla in the following centuries ultimately led to a political awakening and demands for indigenous self-government. This process began in the 1970s through the efforts of local activists such as Hilario Ramírez Morales, who was assassinated in 1981. It gained momentum from the Zapatista uprising of 1994, which led to reprisals by the Mexican government, including incidents of forced sterilization, and the massacre of eleven indigenous leaders in El Charco by the Mexican Army in 1998. Security improved in the area after 2012, when the local community established its own self-defence group affiliated with the.
A further step toward self-government took place in 2018, when Ayutla became the first municipality in Guerrero to hold nonpartisan elections governed by customary law. After more consultation with the local population, on 31 August 2021 the [Congress of Guerrero|Guerrero List of states of Mexico|state legislature] approved the creation of the municipality of Ñuu Savi comprising the Mixtec communities of Ayutla de los Libres. The state constitutional amendment establishing the municipality was passed on 13 January 2022 and went into force on 21 May 2022.