in full Chilpancingo de los Bravos
City (pop., 2000: 142,746 136,000), capital of Guerrero state, southern Mexico.
Located in the Sierra Madre del Sur, it was founded in 1591 and gained prominence as the site of the first Mexican congress, convoked in 1813. Battles were fought there in both the war for independence from Spain and in the Mexican Revolution . It is an agricultural centre for the surrounding region.