Chilapa de Álvarez (chee-LAH-pah dai AHL-vah-res), city (1990 pop. 16,332) and township, Guerrero, SW Mexico, in Sierra Madre del Sur, 15 mi/24 km E of Chilpancingo de los Bravo, on Mexico Highway 93; 17°38'N 99°11'W. Agr. center (cereals, tobacco, coffee, fruit; livestock). Tanneries; mfg. of shoes, cotton shawls.