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    Jantetelco

    Village Jantetelco, Morelos Municipality of Jantetelco

    Municipal seat in eastern Morelos at 1,428 m, with the Augustinian convent of San Pedro and the museum of Father Mariano Matamoros.

    From Cuautla: 20 min by car (25 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    How to get to Jantetelco

    • From Cuautla: about 20 min by road (~25 km)
    • Nearest airport: Mexico City (MEX), 1 h 33 min by car to Tlayacapan
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    About Jantetelco

    Jantetelco, seat of the municipality of the same name, stands at 1,428 metres in eastern Morelos, close to the Puebla border. It had 5,050 residents in 2020. The name is Nahuatl and is usually read as "hill of adobe"; since 1874 the town has officially been Jantetelco de Matamoros, after the priest who made it famous.

    Mariano Matamoros was the village priest in 1811. He joined José María Morelos at Izúcar and took part in the siege of Cuautla, and is counted among the heroes of Mexican Independence. Beside the convent his old room is preserved and became, in 1885, the small museum known as El Dormitorio. The Augustinian convent of San Pedro Apóstol was built between 1558 and 1571; an earthquake brought down its vaults in 1650 and they were mended in 1676. The facade and tower carry decoration that seems eighteenth century, and inside are two wooden altarpieces with oil paintings. It is one of fourteen Morelos convents on the World Heritage list. From the churchyard you can see the Peñón de Jantetelco, the rock that dominates the area.

    The 2017 Axochiapan earthquake destroyed 281 homes in the municipality and damaged 191 others. The biggest fiestas are for San Pedro Apóstol on 29 June, with bands and chinelos, and 13 December, which recalls Matamoros's uprising.

    How to get to Jantetelco

    Drive from Cuautla: 20 min, 25 km

    Jantetelco is about 68 km east of Cuernavaca, about 130 km south of Mexico City and about 80 km southwest of Puebla. From Cuautla, the nearest city (about 22 km in a straight line, roughly 30 to 40 minutes by road, approx.), take federal Highway 160 toward Izúcar de Matamoros (the Cuautla-Izúcar road runs through the municipality) and look for the turn-offs to Jantetelco; check the last stretch on a current map.

    From Mexico City: a bus from TAPO to Cuautla and then a colectivo or taxi to Jantetelco, or by car on the Mexico-Cuautla toll road (115D) and then Highway 160. From Tlayacapan, the nearest pueblo on our list, allow over an hour (about 56 km). We found no current colectivo schedules or fares for Cuautla to Jantetelco; ask at the Cuautla terminal.

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    Main fiestas: San Pedro Apóstol on 29 June, with bands and chinelos, and 13 December, which commemorates Father Matamoros's uprising. Wikipedia · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting Jantetelco: what to see and do

    Enter the church and ex convent of San Pedro Apóstol, on Reforma street, from the sixteenth century.
    Look at the two wooden altarpieces with oil paintings.
    Visit El Dormitorio, the museum in Father Mariano Matamoros's old room.
    Step into the churchyard for a view of the Peñón de Jantetelco.
    Stroll the plaza and its bandstand in the town centre.
    Come on 29 June for the fiesta of San Pedro, with chinelos and bands.

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    When to go to Jantetelco mild

    Jantetelco shares the climate of Tlayacapan, 34 km away. The best months to visit are January, February, March, and December.

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