San Isidro

Several places in Yautepec municipality share this name; this one is San Isidro, at 1,092 metres above sea level and about 8 km straight-line southwest of Yautepec de Zaragoza. Its patron is Saint Isidore the Farmer, the saint of country people, which suits a village ringed by fields.

The INEGI censuses show steady growth: 101 people in 1960, 271 in 1970, 548 in 1990, 815 in 2000, 945 in 2010 and 1,153 in 2020, ranking it 11th of the municipality's 113 localities. More than a quarter of residents (26%) were born outside Morelos. In 2020 there were 320 occupied homes, 96% with piped water and 99% with electricity; average schooling was 8.5 years and 2.5% of people were indigenous.

The landscape is low hills and ravines: Palo Amarillo (1,362 m) lies to the east, El Lindero (1,278 m) to the southeast and Monte Negro or Cerro Negro (1,610 m) to the west. The nearest neighbours are Diego Ruiz (210 people), El Fortín (208) and Barranca Honda (896), all a little over a kilometre away. The climate is hot semi-arid, averaging 22.3 °C with 799 mm of rain; January is the coolest month, April the warmest and September the wettest.

We found no published local history of San Isidro and prefer not to invent one; for the date of the patron-saint fiesta, ask on the spot.