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Rh The congress of 1831 voted to Guerrero's widow and offspring a yearly pension of $3,000. The legislature of Oajaca in March, 1833, decreed that his remains should be exhumed, and with due solemnity be deposited in the church of Santo Domingo. The town of Cuilapa was erected into a city under the name of Ciudad Guerrero. That same year the national congress ordered the renains to be transferred to Mexico and placed in a mausoleum in the Santa Paula cemetery. This was not carried out till 1842, when it was decreed that the highest honors should be paid to the hero's memory. On the 8th of April, 1843, a monument was ordered to be erected in Santa Paula, at the expense of the public treasury, and dedicated to Guerrero.

After the ex-president's death the war in that region of southern Mexico, later organized as the state of Guerrero, ceased, Álvarez submitting to Bustamante's government.