Marquelia

Marquelia is one of the eighty one municipalities of the Mexican state of Guerrero, placed inside the southeastern a part of the kingdom, in the geo-economic vicinity called Costa Chica. Its head is the population of Marquelia that is placed inside the basin of the river of the same name. Marquelia became produced from Decree No. 413 posted in the Official Gazette of the State Government on Friday, December 11, 2001, by segregating from the municipality of Azoyu and Cuajinicuilapa; being a municipality of recent advent inside the kingdom of Guerrero.

It has been commented that Marquelia changed into formerly called Chilcahuite, it changed into additionally called Potzahualco, which means region where water abounds. It is assumed that the original inhabitants of this location of the now Costa Chica were the indomitable Yopitz Indians, prehispanic human beings, which if true the hypothesis, existed within the location across the year 1400, earlier than the appearance of the Spanish.