The Cuernavaca Municipality is one of 36 municipalities in the State of Morelos, Mexico. Located in the northwest of the state, it consists of the City of Cuernavaca, which is the state and municipal capital, as well as other, smaller towns. The population is 378,476 (2020).
Geography Location The municipality of Cuernavaca is located in the northwest of the state of Morelos, south of Mexico City via Mexican Federal Highway 95D. To the north is the municipality of Huitzilac, to the south are the municipalities of Temixco and Xochitepec; Huitzilac, Tepoztlán, and Jiutepec are to the east; and Temixco and the municipality of Ocuilan in the State of Mexico are to the west.
The municipality of Cuernavaca is located at ; it is located within the regions of the Neovolcanic Axis and the Sierra Madre del Sur.
Area and land use The municipality consists of 200.4 km2 (77.37 miles2), which is 4.9% of the total area in Morelos. are used for agriculture, for fishing, for urban areas, and forest.
Forests are located mainly in the north and along the ravines that run from north to south. Most agriculture is west of the city of Cuernavaca, with smaller area north and east. For the most part agricultural lands have low productivity. Communal lands in Ahuatepec located east of the city, and the ejido of Chipitlán, located to the south of the municipality, are examples of places where irregular settlements are being generated by the illegal subdivision of community plots.
Housing use occupies 85% of the urban area. Of the total area of housing use, 33% is residential, medium-type housing represents 20%, popular housing comprises 45%, and high-density social interest housing occupies 2%. Precarious housing is located mainly in the Patios de la Estación area, on the railroad rights-of-way and in the irregular settlements located on the banks of some canyons and in ejido and communal areas mainly northeast of the municipality.
Mixed use occupies an area of 796 hectares (10.22% of the urban area) and is located mainly on the urban corridors (Avenida Emiliano Zapata, Avenida Álvaro Obregón, Avenida Morelos, Avenida Domingo Diez, Avenida Plan de Ayala-Paseo Cuauhnáhuac, Colonia Río Mayo, Colonia San Diego etc.) the urban center, the urban sub-centers, and the neighborhood centers (Ocotepec, Atlacomulco, Ahuatepec, Amatitlan, Santa María Ahuacatitlán, Tetela, San Jerónimo, Tlaltenango, Acapantzingo, El Calvario, San Antón, Melchor Ocampo, Carolina, Antonio Barona, Palmira, Teopanzolco, etc.)
Commercial use is located in the urban center, urban sub-centers and urban corridors, mixed with other uses, there are also important commercial centers in the city that together occupy an area of 81.76 hectares, 1.05% of the total urban area.
Industrial use occupies an area of 97.71 hectares, 1.25% of the urban area.
Government The state of Morelos is divided into five federal electoral districts; Cuernavaca is District 1, represented by Alejandro Mojica Toledo MORENA in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress (2018-2021).
The state legislature consists of twenty deputies, divided into twelve districts and eight deputies elected by proportional vote. Alejandra Flores Espinoza (PES) represents District 1 and Hector Javier García Chavez MORENA represents District 2 in Cuernavaca.
The government of the municipality of Cuernavaca corresponds to its City Council, which is made up of the Municipal President, a Trustee (Spanish: Sindico) and a council made up of fifteen councilors (Spanish: regidores); ten are elected by majority vote and five by proportional vote. The current municipal president is Francisco Antonio Villalobos Adán and the trustee is Marisol Becerra De La Fuente.
Municipal presidents Dates unknown
José Gabriel Hernández Manuel Fiz Agustín Muñoz Bernabé Castillo Juan López Juan Alarcón Bernardino León y Vélez Pedro Patiño Ixtolinque Felipe Escorza Bernabé L. De Elías (15 years) Quirino Manzanares Clemente Carpintero Cristóbal Figueroa Román Vasco Crisóforo Albarrán Margarito Garduño Ismael Velazco Benigno Arellano Ignacio Flores
Constitutional presidents
(1929 - 1930): Salvador S. Saavedra (PRN). (1930 - 1931): Ignacio Oliveros (1931): Crisóforo Albarran (1931 - 1932): Juan Olavarría (1933 - 1934): Julio Adán (1935 - 1936): Lucio Villasana (1937 - 1938): Manuel Gándara Mendieta (1939 - 1940): Alfonso Alemán (1940 - 1942): Manuel Aranda (1943 - 1944): José Cuevas (1945 - 1946): Matías Polanco Castro (1946 - 1948): Gilberto García Pacheco PRI (1949 - 1950): Luis Sedano Montes (1950): Luis Flores Sobral PRI (1951 - 1952): Luis Alarcón González PRI (1952 - 1955): Eduardo Díaz Garcilazo PRI (1955 - 1956): Felipe Rivera Crespo PRI (1957 - 1958): Manuel Dehesa PRI (1958 - 1961): Lorenzo Jiménez PRI (1961 - 1963): Sergio Jiménez Benítez PRI (1963 - 1964): Modesto Reyes Ramírez PRI (1964 - 1967): Valentín López González PRI (1967 - 1969): Felipe Rivera Crespo PRI. (1969 - 1970): Crisóforo Ocampo PRI (1970 - 1973): Ramón Hernández Navarro PRI (1973 - 1976): David Jiménez González PRI (1976 - 1979): Porfirio Flores Ayala PRI (1979 - 1982): José Castillo Pombo PRI (1982 - 1985): Sergio Figueroa Campos PRI (1985 - 1988): Juan Salgado Brito PRI (1988): Eloisa Guadarrama PRI (1988 - 1990): Julio Mitre PRI (1990 - 1991): Sergio Estrada Cajigal PRI (1991 - 1994): Luis Flores Ruiz PRI (1994 - 1997): Alfonso Sandoval Camuñas PRI (1997 - 1997): Sara Olivia Parra Téllez PRI (1997 - 2000): Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN. (2000): Oscar Sergio Hernández Benítez PAN (2000 - 2003): José Raúl Hernández Ávila PAN (2003 - 2006): Adrián Rivera Pérez PAN (2006): Norma Alicia Popoca Sotelo PAN (2006 - 2009): Jesús Giles Sánchez PAN (2009): Joaquín Roque González Cerezo PAN (2009 - 2012): Manuel Martínez Garrigós PRI (2012): Rogelio Sánchez Gatica PRI (2012 - 2015): Jorge Morales Barud (CPM-PVEM). (2015 - 2018): Cuauhtémoc Blanco (PSD). (2018): Denisse Arizmendi Villegas (PSD) (2019–present): Francisco Antonio Villalobos Adán MORENA
Delegations, towns, and colonies
For administrative purposes, the municipality is divided into eight delegations: Emiliano Zapata, Mariano Matamoros, Lázaro Cárdenas, Benito Juárez, Plutarco Elías Calles, Antonio Barona, Miguel Hidalgo, and Vicente Guerrero. There are 242 municipal assistants.
There are 242 towns and colonies in Cuernavaca, including:
Acapantzingo
Acapantzingo is divided into different colonias (neighborhoods) and fraccionamientos (subdivisions), including: Colonia San Miguel Acapantzingo, Ejido de Acapantzingo, Fracc. Jacarandas, Fracc. Jardines de Acapantzingo, Fracc. Los Cisos, Pueblo de Acapantzingo, and Tabachines. The Pueblo of Acapantzingo is one of the four original communities that made up the city just before and during the Conquest.
The Ejido of Acapantzingo is south of downtown Cuernavaca; it and Tabachines are east of the Cuernavaca freeway bypass; the other neighborhoods are west of it.
There were settlements in today's Acapantzingo as early as 1500 BCE. Bernal Díaz del Castillo mentions that Hernán Cortés (which Díaz del Castillo called "Cuautlavaca.") and his troops camped in the orchards of Acapantzingo the night of April 13, 1521, after the conquest of Cuahuhahuac.
Maximilian I of Mexico established the "Casa Chica" for La India Bonita at a finca (estate) in Acapatzingo he called "El Olindo; The estate was burned by troops loyal to Benito Juárez and lay abandoned until it was rebuilt and reopened as the Jardín Etnobotánico de Morelos (Morelos Botanical Garden) and the Museo de Medicina Tradicional y Herbolaria (Museum of Traditional and Herbal Medicine) under the auspiecies of INAH in 1962.
Across from the botanical garden is the parish church of San Miguel Arcangel, built in the 18th century. The feast of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29) is the most important feast day in the neighborhood; other saints venerated are San Isidro (May 15), San Diego Alcalá (November 12), and Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12).
The Parque Ecológico San Miguel Acapatzingo (Ecological Park) is located at the former site of the state penitentiary, and features a dancing fountain and jogging path, and since 2009 the Hands-on Museo de Ciencias de Morelos (Morelos Science Museum).
The ejido of Acapantzingo is home to the Cuernavaca's spring fair (canceled in 2018 and 2019 due to crime and in 2020 due to the pandemic). There are two universities and an athletic field in Acapantzingo. The gated colony of Los Tabachines surrounds a golf course.
Acapantzingo was included in the list of colonias with high infection rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Ahuatepec Located along the highway to Tepoztlan north of Cuernavaca, the town of :es:Ahuatepec was established in precolonial times. The church of San Nicolás Tolentino was founded in the 16th century and holds the remains of Zapatista general Antonio Barona (1886-1915). The neighborhoods Los Limoneros, Jardines de Ahuatepec, La Herradura, México Lindo, Jardines de Zoquipa, Tlaltecuáhuitl, Papayos, el Universo, Villa Santiago, Naranjos, Copalito, Alarcón, Bello Orizonte, Agua Zarca, and others are found in Ahuatepec. The Benedictine monastery Nuestra Señora de los Angeles was founded in 1966. Radio station XHASM-FM (107.7 FM) broadcasts from Ahuatepec.
Lomas de Ahuatepec has a population of 1,668 (2020). Fraccionamiento Lomas de Ahuatlán has 9,522 inhabitants.
Alarcón Colonia Alarcón is located southeast of Cuernavaca and has 533 inhabitants. It is located at above sea level. 6.94% of the population is indigenous and 3.0% speak an indigenous language.
Amatitlán Amatitlán is one of the original twelve barrios of Cuernavaca. The Franciscan church of San Luis Obispo dominates this town, which also known for a remnants of a colonial aqueduct. Bernaldino del Castillo, who accompanied Hernán Cortés on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, founded a sugar cane plantation on 37 hectares of land in Amatitlan in the 16th century; part of this hacienda today form a hotel. The Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano is also located in Amatitlan.
Antonio Barona Colonia Antonio Barona is located in the northeastern part of the city, southwest of Federal Highway 95D, from the center of the city. It is a large neighborhood, with 3,340 mostly working-class residents in the First Section alone.
The neighborhood was founded while Rodolfo López de Nava was governor of Morelos (1952-1958). A group of citizens from Ahuatepec, led by Enedino and Salvador Montiel Barona, (from the family of General :es:Antonio Barona Rojas), supported by lawyer Cristobal Rojas, fought to regain communal lands that had been stolen from them. Although the communalists feared Governor López de Nava, they had secured the support of former president Lázaro Cárdenas, and they managed to seize control of the land. Enedino Montiel Barona was later assassinated.
Colonia Barona gained notoriety in May 2020 as the community with the most infections during the COVID-19 pandemic in Morlos (27 of 171 in the municipality and 405 in the state). The state reported 4,533 confirmed cases and 908 deaths on August 10, 2020. The neighborhood also suffers from a high crime rate, exemplified by a shooting that killed eight and wounded 15 at a funeral on September 1, 2020.
Bosques de la Florida Colonia Bosques de la Florida is southeast of Cuernavaca. It is located at above sea level. 14.29% of the 98 inhabitants are indigenous and 9.18% speak an indigenous language.
Buena Vista del Monte Buenavista del Monte is located west of Cuernavaca. It has 1,135 inhabitants and is located at above sea level.
Buena Vista del Monte was included in the list of colonias with high infection rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Carolina