San Vicente de Juárez

Las Piedras is the second name of San Vicente de Juárez, a locality in the municipality of Ayala, Morelos, at about 1,070 metres above sea level. The full name joins its patron, Saint Vincent de Paul, with Benito Juárez, president during the Reform War. It lies about 12 km south of Ciudad Ayala, the municipal seat, and about 9 km south of San Pedro Apatlaco, the municipality's largest locality.

The INEGI census series is long: 179 people in 1900, 282 in 1910, 189 in 1921, 614 in 1960, 1,078 in 1980, 1,339 in 2000, 1,375 in 2010 and 1,485 in 2020. In 2020 there were 436 occupied homes, nearly all with electricity and piped water (99.5%), average schooling was 7.8 years and no one was recorded as indigenous. The Zapata Vive digital archive of El Colegio de México lists a document from April 1914 dated at San Vicente de Juárez (Las Piedras), a trace of the Revolution passing through the village.

The nearest neighbours are Colonia Las Flores, under 1 km away, and Colonia General Emiliano Zapata (El Chivatero), with 562 people, 1.5 km away; farther out are El Salitre (1,355), Tecomalco and Moyotepec (3,949). The climate is hot semi-arid, averaging 23.4 °C with 1,034 mm of rain spread over about 194 days a year; April is the hottest month and January the coolest.