Villa Guerrero is a town and municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It is located on the southern slopes of the Nevado de Toluca, which is also known as "Xicnahuitecatl", is 50 minutes/58 km from Toluca. Its original name was Tequaloyan, which literally in Náhuatl means "place where there are wild beasts that devour men". The Prehispanic philosophy sais that, Tequani u Ocelotl, (Jaguar) was the symbol of West, where the sun goes underground, to make a nocturnal trip and visit the Mictlan or Dead World, sharing its trip with the Wolf Dog as a guide (or venus as Tlahuiscalpanteuhctli, lord of the rising, to born in the morning as a new flowered boon., 1 Probably the original name either comes from the previous existence of wild animals called "tecuani" (tē=someone, people; cuā=eat; ni=habitual suffix) as now noted in the coat of arms shield. Its name was changed in 1867 to honor the duty and courage of it inhabitants, who participated in many war success during the nineteenth century, as Independence battle 19 and 20 January 1812, National Guard in 1547 and help in Monterrey under command of. Santiago Tapia during American intervention, successful battle on September the 14th in 1857 versus general Jose Maria Cobos, anti liberal army, National guard at Puebla to fight the French Army on May the 5th of 1862. r.