Bonifacio García

Bonifacio García takes its name from Bonifacio García Maldonado, a Morelos-born officer who fought on the Zapatista side in the Revolution, according to Spanish Wikipedia. Wikidata also lists Colonia Alejandra and Alejandra as other names for the same place, without saying when they were used. The village has grown steadily: the 1930 census found only 111 people, 2010 counted 2,151, and in 2020 INEGI recorded 2,013 residents in 626 occupied homes, which makes it one of the five largest of the 83 localities in the municipality of Tlaltizapán de Zapata.

It sits at about 960 m above sea level in hot country. PueblosAmérica gives a warm steppe climate, an annual mean near 23.6 °C and about 188 rainy days a year. Neighbouring settlements almost run into each other: Colonia Palo Prieto (Chipitongo) and Temilpa Nuevo lie about 1.5 km to the southeast, Temilpa Viejo 2.7 km away, and Acamilpa just over 4 km north. The municipal seat, Tlaltizapán, is about 4 km east, and it is where the headquarters of Zapata's Liberation Army of the South is preserved.

This is not a place of monuments, and it is fair to say so: We found no historic church or visitor site of its own. What there is: a hot-country village with its municipal ayudantía (postal code 62774) and street paving included in Tlaltizapán's 2022-2024 municipal plan. For anyone travelling through southern Morelos it makes a short stop beside Tlaltizapán and a way to see how the settlements of the Yautepec river valley sit one beside the other. Cabins and motels are available in the surrounding area.