Calera Chica

Calera Chica belongs to the municipality of Jiutepec. It sits at about 1,309 metres above sea level and, according to English Wikipedia's Jiutepec article, roughly 6 km south of the municipal seat. The record gives an exact founding date, 11 July 1956, which makes it a recent settlement in a state where most villages have centuries behind them.

The census figures tell the story best. INEGI counted 396 residents in 1960, 1,221 in 1970, 2,821 in 1980, 4,629 in 2000 and 6,006 in 2020. That is the curve of a neighbourhood filled by people working across the Cuernavaca-Jiutepec urban area, not of a farming hamlet that stayed put. OpenStreetMap agrees: the street grid is split into named sectors (Calera Oriente and Calera Poniente) and ringed by housing developments and gated condominiums.

On the ground, OpenStreetMap shows state road MOR 14 as the spine of the settlement, its stretches carrying the names Avenida Emiliano Zapata, Niños Héroes and Benito Juárez. The abandoned bed of an old railway, the Vía del Ferrocarril Río Balsas, runs nearby, and the Barranca de Analco is close.