Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl

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Places to visit in Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl 163

163 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 99 Landmarks and museums · 30 Towns · 20 Hot springs · 4 Nature reserves · 4 Archaeological sites · 3 Cities · 2 Waterfalls · 1

Villages

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  Achichipico · Village · Morelos
  Village in Yecapixtla at 1,934 m, 2,534 people in 2020, with a big Late Preclassic site, Tlalolin, and rock paintings in the Barranca Grande.
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  Adolfo López Mateos · Village · Morelos
  Village in Tepoztlán at 1,266 m, next to Oacalco; also called Colonia Ángel Bocanegra. 1,279 people in 2020.
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  Analco de Ponciano Arriaga · Village · Puebla
  Santa Cruz Analco, "across the water": a vegetable- and flower-growing village of San Salvador el Verde, at 2,380 m below Iztaccíhuatl.
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  Calderón · Village · Morelos
  Cuautla locality 9 km from downtown, below Cerro de Calderón, with an aqueduct and a former station catalogued as monuments.
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  Chamilpa · Village · Morelos
  Old village north of Cuernavaca, founded in 1539, with a 16th-century chapel, the state university on its land and a San Lorenzo fiesta every August 10.
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  Cháhuac · Village · Puebla
  Hamlet of Domingo Arenas, 5 km from Huejotzingo, on land once held by Huexotzinco's nobility and later by the Cháhuac hacienda.
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  Ciudad Industrial del Valle de Cuernavaca · Village · Morelos
  CIVAC: a 230-hectare industrial park and residential area in Jiutepec, home to Nissan and pharmaceutical plants since 1966. Not a tourist destination.
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  Cliserio Alanís · Village · Morelos
  Former San Gaspar sugar hacienda in Jiutepec, renamed in 1932 for a Zapatista general; 2,706 people in 2020.
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  Coajomulco · Village · Morelos
  Forest village at 2,655 m, split in two by the México-Cuernavaca highway; locals still make charcoal and pulque and hold jaripeos.
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  Diecinueve de Febrero de Mil Ochocientos Doce · Village · Morelos
  Colony north of Cuautla named for the day the 1812 siege began; 1,149 residents in 2020, next to Cocoyoc and Tierra Larga.
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  El Naranjo · Village · Morelos
  Jiutepec colony at 1,316 m beside San Gaspar; 1,282 residents in 2020, more than double its 2005 count.
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  El Vigía · Village · Morelos
  Once San Nicolás del Monte, at 2,181 m in northern Morelos: nopal fields, the church of San Nicolás and the road to Tlayacapan.
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  Emiliano Zapata · Village · Morelos
  Small locality in Yautepec at 1,486 m, close to Cocoyoc and its old sugar hacienda. Not the municipality of Emiliano Zapata.
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  Exhacienda el Hospital · Village · Morelos
  Village in Cuautla beside a former sugar hacienda: a brick chimney, a chapel and a 1,500 m aqueduct survive.
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  Felipe Neri · Village · Morelos
  Mountain village in Tlalnepantla at about 2,560 m: nopal fields, cool forest and the ruins of the Coatepec hacienda.
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  Fierro del Toro · Village · Morelos
  Hamlet of about 200 people at nearly 2,960 m in the Huitzilac hills, among volcanic cones and cold forest; Holy Trinity fiesta on January 1.
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  Huecahuasco · Village · Morelos
  Village in Ocuituco at about 2,080 m on the slopes of Popocatépetl; it existed in the 16th century and keeps St Mark's day on 25 April.
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  Huejotengo · Village · Morelos
  Ocuituco village at 2,164 m on the Popocatépetl slope, where women rebuilt their homes after the 2017 quake and now process avocado.
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  Huepalcalco · Village · Morelos
  San Miguel Huepalcalco: an Ocuituco village at 2,283 m on the Popocatépetl slope, "at the houses of planks" in Nahuatl.
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  Huexca · Village · Morelos
  Village in Yecapixtla at 1,417 m, known for the Proyecto Integral Morelos power plant and its residents' fight against it.
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  Huitzilac · Village · Morelos
  Forest town at 2,561 m on the old road in from Mexico City; fog, barbacoa, trout, and the Zempoala lakes about 13 km further on.
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  Ignacio Bastida · Village · Morelos
  Formerly Santa Catarina Tlayca, in Yautepec, 4 km from Tlayacapan at 1,292 m; now named for a Zapatista general. 1,119 residents in 2020.
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  Independencia · Village · Morelos
  Colonia in Jiutepec founded in 1979, at about 1,450 m, east of the town centre and roughly 12 km from Cuernavaca.
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  Itzamatitlán · Village · Morelos
  Yautepec village whose name means "place surrounded by black amate"; reports of pyramids and a spa with thermal water.
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  Jesús Tepactepec · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Natívitas municipality, almost joined to the seat, with the sanctuary of Padre Jesús de los Tres Caminos and its March festival.
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  Juan Morales · Village · Morelos
  Town of 13,431 people on Cuautla's eastern edge, along highway 160; a base for Yecapixtla and its 16th-century convent.
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  Jumiltepec · Village · Morelos
  Ocuituco village on the slopes of Popocatépetl, with a parish dating to 1551, a hilltop chapel 2 km up and a Candelaria fiesta on 2 February.
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  Kilómetro Ochenta y Ocho · Village · Morelos
  Atlatlahucan village named for its kilometre marker on the Mexico-Cuautla highway; it grew from 68 people in 1970 to 1,099 in 2020.
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  La Joya · Village · Morelos
  Yautepec locality founded in 1978, now one of the municipality's largest: 14,126 people in 2020, between Cuernavaca and Yautepec.
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  La Magdalena Yancuitlalpan · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tochimilco on the slopes of Popocatépetl, "on the new land", about 17 km from the Pueblo Mágico of Atlixco.
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  Las Arboledas · Village · Morelos
  A fast-growing settlement 2 km east of Ciudad Ayala, Morelos: from 2 residents in 1990 to 1,850 in 2020, at about 1,300 m.
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  Las Minas · Village · Morelos
  Locality in Atlatlahucan at 1,449 m, about 6 km southwest of the seat; it grew from 293 residents in 2005 to 2,211 in 2020.
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  Loma Bonita · Village · Morelos
  A colonia in Tepoztlán municipality, its third-largest locality: from 406 residents in 2000 to 4,321 in 2020.
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  Loma Bonita · Village · Morelos
  Yecapixtla colonia beside Juan Morales at 1,404 m: from 25 residents in 1990 to 1,066 in 2020.
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  Loma Esmeralda · Village · Morelos
  Colonia in southwest Tepoztlán that grew from 38 residents in 2000 to 1,916 in 2020; it has its own primary school on Calle Agua Marina.
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  Lomas de Cocoyoc · Village · Morelos
  Country-club residential development in Atlatlahucan with an 18-hole golf course dating to 1976 and 2,506 people in 2020, about 90 km from Mexico City.
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  Lomas del Pedregal · Village · Morelos
  Colonia in southwest Tepoztlán at 1,413 m, next door to Loma Esmeralda: 167 residents in 2005, 1,897 in 2020.
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  Los Arcos · Village · Morelos
  Yautepec locality beside the aqueduct arches of the former San Carlos Borromeo hacienda, on the Cuernavaca-Cuautla road.
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  Los Olivos · Village · Morelos
  Hamlet in Huitzilac at 2,758 m, 2 km from Tres Marías; 283 residents in 2020, with a cool highland climate and mountain forest nearby.
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  Lázaro Cárdenas · Village · Morelos
  Yautepec locality also known as El Empalme, next to Oacalco and its sugar mill; 1,503 residents and state road MOR 2.
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  Metepec · Village · Morelos
  Metepec in Morelos, a village in Ocuituco municipality at 2,057 m on the slopes of Popocatépetl; not the Metepec in the State of Mexico.
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  Mixtlalcingo · Village · Morelos
  Yecapixtla locality at 1,423 m just minutes from Cuautla, which grew from 85 to 2,678 people between 2000 and 2020; its Nahuatl name refers to clouds.
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  Narciso Mendoza · Village · Morelos
  Cuautla locality at 1,342 m north of the city, named for the Boy Artilleryman of the 1812 siege; close to 2,000 residents.
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  Natívitas · Village · Tlaxcala
  Southern Tlaxcala seat once called "España Chiquita": a baroque parish, ruined Franciscan convent walls, and Cacaxtla just 3 km away.
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  Nepopualco · Village · Morelos
  Village of Totolapan at 2,048 m in the high north of Morelos, 9 km from Tlayacapan, with a salmon-coloured church.
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  Oacalco · Village · Morelos
  Village in Yautepec whose Nahuatl name means 'house of the ears of grain'; it grew around a sugar mill and has a parish church of Santa Inés.
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  Ocoxaltepec · Village · Morelos
  Village of about 1,500 people at 2,374 m on the slopes of the Popocatepetl region, in Ocuituco, with a cool, rainy mountain climate.
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  Parres El Guarda · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Tlalpan pueblo originario at nearly 3,000 m on the old Cuernavaca road: hacienda ruins, lamb barbacoa and a stop on the railway bikeway.
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  Pazulco · Village · Morelos
  Yecapixtla village at 1,463 m, about 5 km west of the municipal seat; already described in Alcedo's 1788 dictionary.
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  Peña Flores · Village · Morelos
  Locality of 4,448 people (2020) just north of Cuautla, also called Palo Verde, at 1,336 m above sea level.
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  Progreso · Village · Morelos
  Second most populous locality in Jiutepec, 16,746 people in 2020, 2.6 km east of the municipal seat and about 10 km from Cuernavaca.
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  Puxtla · Village · Morelos
  Village in Cuautla municipality at about 1,267 m, with 1,901 people in 2020; its Nahuatl name roughly means "place of soft things".
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  Rinconada Acolapa · Village · Morelos
  Residential community in Tepoztlán, formerly Unidad Habitacional Rinconada Acolapa, with 2,772 people in 2020; no tourist sights of its own.
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  San Andrés Cuamilpa · Village · Tlaxcala
  Tetlatlahuca village whose Nahuatl name means "in the wooded milpa"; church of Saint Andrew the Apostle.
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  San Andrés Cuauhtempan · Village · Morelos
  Village of Tlayacapan whose Nahuatl name means 'at the edge of the forest'; patron saint Andrew, about 4 km from the municipal seat.
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  San Andrés de la Cal · Village · Morelos
  A maize-farming village of Tepoztlán, also called Tenextitla, with two churches facing each other and common land bordering El Texcal.
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  San Antonio Alpanocan · Village · Puebla
  Indigenous Tochimilco community on the slopes of Popocatépetl, surrounded by Morelos; the 2017 earthquake brought down 90% of its buildings.
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  San Bartolomé Tenango · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Tetlatlahuca with a 19th-century church of San Bartolomé, its tower topped by a tiled dome; fiesta on 24 August.
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  San Bernabé Capula · Village · Tlaxcala
  Natívitas village, "place where capulines abound", with a chapel of San Bernabé and an auxiliary president chosen by custom.
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  San Buenaventura Nealtican · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Nealtican, "place where I bathe", below Popocatépetl, beside a lava field with quarries and a parish church finished in 1739.
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  San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo · Village · Puebla
  An auxiliary borough of San Martín Texmelucan, at 2,320 m in the irrigated Atoyac valley; its Nahuatl name means 'in the little stone house'.
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  San Cristóbal Tepatlaxco · Village · Puebla
  Texmelucan village on highway 190 below Cerro Totolqueme, which lends its name to the pre-Hispanic mounds of Tepatlaxco.
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  San Felipe Teotlalcingo · Village · Puebla
  "Little valley of the gods" at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, beside the Izta-Popo park, with a 17th-century parish and brickworks.
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  San Francisco · Village · Morelos
  Locality in Atlatlahucan at 1,508 m, on the road to Cuautla and Yecapixtla; it grew from 326 to 1,537 residents between 2000 and 2020.
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  San Francisco Huilango · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tochimilco on the slopes of Popocatépetl, "where logs are dragged", about 18 km from Atlixco.
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  San Gabriel Popocatla · Village · Tlaxcala
  Ixtacuixtla village in western Tlaxcala, known for papier-mâché workshops that build catrinas up to 4 m tall, alebrijes and piñatas.
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  San Isidro · Village · Morelos
  Locality in Yautepec at 1,092 m, with 1,153 people in 2020 and Saint Isidore the Farmer as patron; 8 km southwest of the municipal seat.
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  San José de los Laureles · Village · Morelos
  Hill community above Tlayacapan at 1,866 m, ringed by cliffs, with rock paintings and carvings in its fields and an Assumption procession on 15 August.
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  San Juan Texcalpan · Village · Morelos
  Atlatlahucan village at about 1,600 m, Nahuatl for 'place of crags', with a San Juan Bautista fiesta every 24 June.
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  San Juan Tlacotenco · Village · Morelos
  A forest village at about 2,350 m above Tepoztlán: a railway stop until 1997, a community museum and the feast of San Juan on 24 June.
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  San Juan Tuxco · Village · Puebla
  Village of San Martín Texmelucan at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, "among the rabbits", with a parish church of San Juan and a chapel of the Sacrament.
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  San Lorenzo Chiautzingo · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Chiautzingo, "in the little marsh", on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Huejotzingo, with carnival in its barrios.
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  San Lucas el Grande · Village · Puebla
  The largest town in San Salvador el Verde, at 2,317 m below Iztaccíhuatl, among tejocote orchards, flower fields and black-stone workshops.
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  San Luis Coyotzingo · Village · Puebla
  Village in Huejotzingo with a pre-Hispanic mound dedicated to Camaxtli and an Indigenous wheat mill from 1559; a chacmool turned up here in 1973.
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  San Mateo Ayecac · Village · Tlaxcala
  Locality of Tepetitla on the Atoyac river, with a 19th-century church of San Mateo and a fiesta on 21 September.
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  San Mateo Ozolco · Village · Puebla
  "On the old road": a Calpan village at 2,674 m, stretched along a ridge between wooded ravines coming down from the Sierra Nevada.
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  San Matías Cuijingo · Village · Estado de México
  A Juchitepec delegation at 2,500 m with a view of Popocatépetl, legends of an eagle and San Matías, and feasts in May and December.
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  San Miguel Tlaltetelco · Village · Morelos
  Atlatlahucan village at 1,719 m, Nahuatl for 'place of earth pyramids'; 2,098 residents and a San Miguel fiesta on 29 September.
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  San Miguel Xochitecatitla · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village of 2,199 people at the foot of the Xochitécatl archaeological zone, with a parish church to Saint Michael the Archangel.
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  San Pedro Apatlaco · Village · Morelos
  A locality of over 13,000 people next to Cuautla, home to the Coahuixtla ex-hacienda, a Zapatista barracks damaged in the 2017 quake.
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  San Salvador el Verde · Village · Puebla
  Farming town in western Puebla, the old Xopalican, "green place", in a municipality that climbs to the summit of Iztaccíhuatl.
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  San Vicente Chimalhuacán · Village · Estado de México
  Village in Ozumba with a 16th-century Dominican convent and the parish that holds Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's baptism record.
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  Santa Ana Portales · Village · Tlaxcala
  A locality of 968 people in Tetlatlahuca at 2,188 m, with the chapel of Santa Ana and San Joaquín, about 20 km from Huejotzingo.
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  Santa Ana Xalmimilulco · Village · Puebla
  Huejotzingo village right on the México–Puebla highway at the Tlaxcala line, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl to the west.
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  Santa Catarina · Village · Morelos
  Santa Catarina Zacatepec, in El Tepozteco National Park: 17th-century Dominican church, springs and eateries on the road to Tepoztlán.
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  Santa María Atexcac · Village · Puebla
  Village of Huejotzingo at 2,400 m on the eastern slope of Iztaccíhuatl, "in the water that springs from the rock", with upper and lower quarters.
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  Santa María Moyotzingo · Village · Puebla
  Large town south of Texmelucan with a Preclassic pyramid base, the tepematzin, that looks like a little hill in the middle of town.
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  Santa María Texmelucan · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tlahuapan at the foot of Iztaccíhuatl, "place of little oaks", with a Holy Week procession that lasts all night.
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  Santiago Xalitzintla · Village · Puebla
  The closest inhabited village to Popocatépetl's crater, 12 km away, whose people revere the volcano as Don Goyo.
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  Santo Domingo Ocotitlán · Village · Morelos
  Village in Tepoztlán municipality at 2,072 m, "place surrounded by pines", reached by van from Tepoztlán on an old road with amate trees.
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  Tecajec · Village · Morelos
  Old Yecapixtla dependency already listed as Tecaxiqui in 1580; its Nahuatl name means "in the stone vessel"; grew from 313 to 1,892 residents.
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  Tetecolala · Village · Morelos
  Tepoztlán locality inside the Cuernavaca metro area; grew from 420 to 3,578 people between 2000 and 2020. Name: 'place of abundant charcoal'.
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  Tetela del Monte · Village · Morelos
  Wooded neighbourhood north of Cuernavaca with a Franciscan chapel of the Three Kings, a January 6 fiesta, plant nurseries and the Bosque Real park.
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  Tlacotepec · Village · Morelos
  Hamlet in Huitzilac at 2,645 m, next to Tres Marías, in the cold forest of the sierra between Cuernavaca and Mexico City.
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  Tlalnepantla · Village · Morelos
  Northern Morelos town of 4,383 people at about 2,066 m, with an Augustinian ex-convent finished in 1791 and fields of nopal cactus.
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  Tlaltenango · Village · Puebla
  Small municipal seat in metropolitan Puebla beside Huejotzingo, founded in 1527, with a parish church of San Pedro Apóstol and a brick-and-tile tradition.
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  Tres Marías · Village · Morelos
  Mountain stop at 2,810 m on the Mexico City-Cuernavaca road, the largest locality in Huitzilac, known for fried quesadillas and fog.
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  Xochitlán · Village · Morelos
  Village in Yecapixtla at 1,720 m; a 1581 map already shows it as a subject community of Yecapixtla, named for flowers.
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  Yecapixteca · Village · Morelos
  Community in Yecapixtla at 1,490 m, about 4 km west of the municipal seat and 12 km from Cuautla; grew from 87 to 1,364 residents since 1980.

Landmarks and museums

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  Antigua estación del ferrocarril de Cuautla · Landmark · Morelos
  Cuautla's 1881 railway station, now the Museo Vivencia Ferrocarril 279, home to a 1921 Baldwin steam engine that can still run.
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  Catedral de Cuernavaca · Landmark · Morelos
  A fortress-like Franciscan convent begun in 1529, now Cuernavaca's cathedral and UNESCO-listed, with a huge open chapel and a mural of martyrs in Japan.
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  Convento de San Juan Bautista (Tetela del Volcán) · Landmark · Morelos
  Dominican friary in Tetela del Volcán, a World Heritage site, with cloister murals of apostles and cherubs; its tower fell in the 2017 earthquake.
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  Estadio Isidro Gil Tapia · Landmark · Morelos
  Cuautla's football stadium, home of the now-dissolved C.D. Cuautla, a club that played four top-flight seasons in the 1950s.
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  Estadio Olímpico de Oaxtepec · Landmark · Morelos
  A 9,000-seat stadium inside the IMSS Oaxtepec holiday centre, opened in 1979 and now home to Sporting Canamy.
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  Ex Convento de Santo Domingo de Guzmán · Landmark · Morelos
  Dominican friary in Hueyapan, high on Popocatépetl's slopes and part of a World Heritage site; the 2017 quake brought its dome down, and restoration goes on.
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  Ex Hacienda Atlacomulco · Landmark · Morelos
  Former sugar estate of San Antonio Atlacomulco, tied to Hernán Cortés and the Marquesado del Valle; today the Hotel & Spa Hacienda de Cortés.
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  Ex Hacienda de San Carlos · Landmark · Morelos
  A 17th-century hacienda next to Los Arcos in Yautepec, now an events venue with a chapel, gardens and guest rooms.
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  Exconvento de Santa María Magdalena · Landmark · Puebla
  Baroque Dieguino convent in central San Martín Texmelucan, a national monument since 1933, with Churrigueresque altarpieces and a 1794 German organ.
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  Exconvento de Santo Domingo de Guzmán · Landmark · Morelos
  The first Dominican house in an Indigenous town in New Spain, in Oaxtepec; IMSS reopened it in 2024 after restoring murals damaged in 2017.
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  Hacienda Apanquetzalco · Landmark · Morelos
  Ruins of a 17th-century sugar mill on the northwest edge of Yautepec, now also rented out for weddings and events.
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  Hacienda Cocoyoc · Landmark · Morelos
  Early 17th-century sugar hacienda in Yautepec, a hotel since the 1960s; its stone arches and aqueduct are still standing.
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  Jardín Juárez · Landmark · Morelos
  Cuernavaca's oldest square, beside the zócalo, with an iron bandstand shipped from Britain in 1890 and credited, without proof, to Gustave Eiffel.
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  Monasterios en las faldas del Popocatépetl · Landmark · Morelos
  Fourteen 16th-century friaries in Morelos and Puebla, World Heritage since 1994 (Tlaxcala joined in 2021): walled atriums, posa chapels, open chapels.
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  Museo Fotográfico de Cuernavaca · Landmark · Morelos
  "El Castillito", an early-1900s brick house built like a little French castle, now showing old photographs of Cuernavaca.
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  Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano · Landmark · Morelos
  Modern and contemporary art museum in Amatitlán, Cuernavaca, opened in 2018, with about 1,200 works by Juan Soriano and a sculpture garden.
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  Museo Morelense de Arte Popular · Landmark · Morelos
  Downtown Cuernavaca museum of crafts from across Morelos: Cuentepec pottery, Hueyapan textiles and Tlayacapan work. Free admission.
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  Museo Robert Brady · Landmark · Morelos
  Painter and collector Robert Brady's house beside Cuernavaca cathedral: some 1,300 objects from five continents, including Frida Kahlo and Tamayo.
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  Museo del Oriente de Morelos "Casa de Morelos" · Landmark · Morelos
  The 18th-century house where José María Morelos held out in the 1812 siege of Cuautla; an INAH museum with eight rooms on Morelos and Zapata.
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  Papalote Museo del Niño · Landmark · Morelos
  Hands-on museum for children and families in Lomas de la Selva, Cuernavaca, with 35+ exhibits; a branch of Mexico City's Papalote since 2008.
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  Parroquia de Santiago Apóstol de Cuautla · Landmark · Morelos
  Cuautla's main parish church, a former Dominican priory finished in 1606, with a two-towered neoclassical front facing the main square.
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  Parroquia de la Asunción de María · Landmark · Morelos
  16th-century Dominican church and former convent in central Yautepec, with a mural-painted cloister and vaults bearing the order's arms.
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  Santuario de San Miguel del Milagro · Landmark · Tlaxcala
  National Shrine of St Michael, built where tradition places the 1631 apparition to Diego Lázaro, beside Cacaxtla; pilgrims come for the water of its well.
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  Templo y Exconvento de San Juan Bautista de Yecapixtla · Landmark · Morelos
  Augustinian friary of 1535-41, a World Heritage site, with a Gothic rose window about 3 m wide, a stone pulpit and a battlemented atrium by the cecina market.
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  Templo y Exconvento de San Mateo Apóstol · Landmark · Morelos
  Battlemented Augustinian convent in Atlatlahucan, World Heritage, with an open chapel, a Last Supper fresco and Latin Mass said facing the altar.
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  Templo y Exconvento de Santiago Apóstol de Ocuituco · Landmark · Morelos
  The Augustinians' first convent in New Spain, begun in 1534 on Popocatépetl's slopes; World Heritage since 1994, with a lion fountain in its cloister.
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  Templo y exconvento de San Diego · Landmark · Morelos
  A 1640 Franciscan church in central Cuautla: a stronghold in the 1812 siege, later a hotel, with the 1881 railway station built on its orchard.
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  Templo y exconvento de San Guillermo · Landmark · Morelos
  Augustinian convent begun in 1534 in Totolapan, World Heritage, with its original orchard and the Cristo Aparecido; worst hit of all by the 2017 quake.
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  Templo y exconvento de la Inmaculada Concepción · Landmark · Morelos
  Augustinian convent in Zacualpan de Amilpas (1535-1567), World Heritage: twenty cloister pillars painted with friars and a town map in its chapter room.
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  Tetelcingo · Landmark · Morelos
  A Nahua community north of Cuautla where Mösiehuali is still spoken and the chincuete still worn; harvest fiesta in October. Barrio Mágico since 2024.

Towns

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  Amador Salazar · Town · Morelos
  Colonia west of Yautepec at the foot of the Cerro de las Tetillas, with a San Miguel chapel; named for the Zapatista general Amador Salazar.
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  Juchitepec de Mariano Riva Palacio · Town · Estado de México
  The "hill of flowers", on high farmland between Chalco and Morelos: the Santo Domingo parish, the Señor de las Agonías feast in April and tecuí to toast with.
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  San Damián Texóloc · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat of just over 10 km², of pre-Hispanic origin and a milk-and-farming economy; parish of San Damián.
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  San Jerónimo Zacualpan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Southern Tlaxcala town with a clock-tower church, tule weaving, carnival charros and a San Jerónimo fiesta on 30 September.
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  San Jorge Tezoquipan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality in Panotla, 4,881 people in 2020, with a church of San Jorge and a Nahuatl name meaning "on the rocky mud".
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  San Juan Huactzinco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Bread-baking town in southern Tlaxcala with a Franciscan church from 1670, carnival costumes and a San Juan Apóstol fiesta on 27 December.
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  San Lorenzo Axocomanitla · Town · Tlaxcala
  One of Mexico's smallest municipalities: a 17th-century church, San Lorenzo's fiesta on 10 August and fibre basketry.
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  San Miguel Xoxtla · Town · Puebla
  Small municipality on the northern edge of the Puebla metro area by Tlaxcala, "abundance of flowers", split from Tlaltenango in 1940.
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  San Rafael Tlanalapan · Town · Puebla
  Town in San Martín Texmelucan, "land across the river", home in mid-August to the National Chile Poblano Fair.
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  San Vicente Xiloxochitla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Natívitas community known as the cradle of the taco de canasta, with its fair on the first Sunday of December.
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  Santa Ana Nopalucan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat in south-western Tlaxcala, a former producer of reed and salt, with the church of Santa Ana and a feast on 26 July.
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  Santa Apolonia Teacalco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Basket-making municipality in the Natívitas valley: huejote and pirul baskets, the church of Santa Apolonia and a fiesta on 9 February.
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  Santa Justina Ecatepec · Town · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality in Ixtacuixtla (5,122 people in 2020), on highway 117 between Tlaxcala and San Martín Texmelucan.
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  Santa María Zacatepec · Town · Puebla
  Town in Juan C. Bonilla beside Puebla's airport and federal highway 190, where a 130 m sinkhole opened in 2021.
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  Santiago Michac · Town · Tlaxcala
  The most populous locality in Natívitas: church of Santiago Apóstol, a fiesta on 23-26 July and a short hop from Cacaxtla.
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  Santo Tomás la Concordia · Town · Tlaxcala
  Natívitas town founded after a flood, with Saint Thomas and Saint Sebastian as patrons and a moros y cristianos dance.
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  Tepetitla de Lardizábal · Town · Tlaxcala
  A seat beside San Martín Texmelucan, with the church of San Mateo (fiesta 21 September), reed work and fireworks.
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  Tetlatlahuca · Town · Tlaxcala
  A municipal seat with the parish of Santa Isabel (fiesta 19 November), tule crafts and an ancient settlement on the Cerro de La Cruz.
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  Villa Alta · Town · Tlaxcala
  Locality in Tepetitla de Lardizábal with the former San Pedro Rojano hacienda and an April fair for the Señor de la Era.
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  Villa Mariano Matamoros · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of Ixtacuixtla, with the Franciscan ex-convent of San Felipe (1554-1585) and the tile-covered Calvario church and staircase.

Hot springs

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  Balneario Ejidal El Bosque · Hot springs · Morelos
  Oaxtepec's ejido-run balneario: pools, slides, the Poza Azul spring, a suspension bridge, cabins and camping. Adult entry 150 pesos since March 2026.
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  Balneario El Texcal · Hot springs · Morelos
  Pools inside El Texcal state park in Jiutepec, run by Tejalpa's communal landholders. Sources disagree on hours, fees and whether it is open now.
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  Balneario Las Fuentes · Hot springs · Morelos
  Ejido-run spring-fed balneario in Jiutepec, a few blocks from the town centre, with pools, small slides and big shade trees.
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  Balneario Los Limones · Hot springs · Morelos
  Family balneario in the middle of Cuautla, on calle Centinela, with pools, a splash pool, kids' slides, courts and a camping area.

Nature reserves

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  Bosque Mirador · Nature reserve · Morelos
  About 22 ha of pine forest in Ahuatepec, north of Cuernavaca; a municipal protected area since 2016, next to the Chichinautzin corridor.
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  Cañón de Lobos · Nature reserve · Morelos
  Dry-forest canyon between Cuernavaca and Yautepec, crossed by Federal Highway 138; 148 butterfly species and a favourite climb for road cyclists.
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  Corredor Biológico Chichinautzin · Nature reserve · Morelos
  Federal protected area of 37,302 ha, decreed in 1988: pine, oak and fir forest between Cuernavaca, Tepoztlán and Huitzilac, linking Zempoala and El Tepozteco.
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  Parque Nacional El Tepozteco · Nature reserve · Morelos
  About 23,000 ha of volcanic sierra between Tepoztlán and southern Mexico City: pine and oak forest, dry tropical woods and the Tepozteco pyramid.

Archaeological sites

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  Los Cerritos de Tepatlaxco · Archaeological site · Puebla
  Nine pyramid bases on the rims of ravines on the slopes of Cerro Totolqueme, inhabited from 300 BC to 600 AD, just outside Texmelucan.
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  Xochitécatl · Archaeological site · Tlaxcala
  A ceremonial centre begun about 800 BC on an extinct volcano's summit, with the Pyramid of the Flowers and the round Spiral Building, facing Cacaxtla.
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  Zona Arqueológica El Tlatoani · Archaeological site · Morelos
  Toltec-era terraces, burials and a pyramid platform (AD 900-1200) atop a Tlayacapan rock hill, excavated by INAH since 2012.

Cities

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  Cuautla · City · Morelos
  Morelos's second city, at 1,294 m: Morelos held out here in the 1812 siege, and Emiliano Zapata's remains rest in its Plaza Revolución del Sur.
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  San Martín Texmelucan · City · Puebla
  Market city in western Puebla, 32 km from the capital, known for its huge Tuesday clothing tianguis and the poblano chiles of Tlanalapan.

Waterfalls

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  Los Venaditos · Waterfall · Morelos
  A waterfall of about 30 m inside the Santuario de los Venaditos, in the Valle de Atongo: a short path through ferns, with deer and rock paintings.

Top tours in Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl

Independencia Night Tour of Mexico City Panoramic Ride on a Double-Decker Bus ★ 3.3 (123) 45 min From US$11

San Mateo Ayecac Africam Safari Zoo Admission with Transportation ★ 4.8 (87) 5 h From US$35

San Mateo Ayecac Iztaccihuatl Volcano Hiking Tour from Puebla ★ 5.0 (81) 8–9 h From US$179

San Mateo Ayecac Cholula tour from Puebla ★ 4.9 (81) 3–4 h From US$82

San Mateo Ayecac Town walking tour of the city ★ 4.9 (80) 2–3 h From US$36

San Mateo Ayecac Cholula Magical Town on a Traditional Tram from Puebla in Spanish ★ 4.4 (67) 5 h From US$14

Adolfo López Mateos Skip-the-line tickets for the Museum of Anthropology ★ 2.5 (48) 1–3.3 h From US$25

Tepoztlán Tepoztlán Half-Day Escape: Hike the Tepozteco, Enjoy a Magic Town ★ 4.9 (8) 8 h From US$83

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