Ayala

Map of Ayala

Places to visit in Ayala

Towns · 2 Villages · 17 Archaeological sites · 1 Hot springs · 1

Towns

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  Ciudad Ayala · Town
  Seat of Ayala municipality, 6 km from Cuautla, with the San José parish and the Museum of Zapatista Women, opened in April 2026.
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  Anenecuilco · Town
  Emiliano Zapata's birthplace, with the remains of his family home kept as a small museum.

Villages

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  Tenextepango · Village
  Ayala village built around a sugar hacienda founded in 1603, later owned by Porfirio Díaz's son-in-law; Santiago fiesta with the tecuanes dance.
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  San Pedro Apatlaco · Village
  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 Juan Ahuehueyo · Village
  A village in Ayala, "place of ahuehuete trees", 13 km from Cuautla; San Juan feast on 24 June and a Day of the Dead of altars and graveyard vigils.
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  Constancio Farfán · Village
  Village in Ayala at 1,205 m, a short hop from Tenextepango, named for the Revolution general Constancio Farfán. 2,148 residents in 2020.
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  Jaloxtoc · Village
  Village in Ayala with 4,026 people in 2020, part of the Cuautla metropolitan area; its Nahuatl name means place of the sand caves.
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  Moyotepec · Village
  Pueblo in the municipality of Ayala with nearly 4,000 people, in Morelos's cane country; its main fiesta is Three Kings on 6 January.
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  Abelardo L. Rodríguez · Village
  Village in Ayala on the Cuautla-Jojutla highway at about 1,150 m, with a San Francisco fiesta on 4 October and 2,072 residents.
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  Huitzililla · Village
  Village in Ayala, southeast of Cuautla, home to the airfield where tandem skydives start at 17,000 feet.
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  San Vicente de Juárez · Village
  Locality in Ayala, also called Las Piedras, at about 1,070 m, with 1,485 people in 2020 and Saint Vincent de Paul as patron.
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  Tlayecac · Village
  Village in Ayala at 1,367 m, about 10 km from Cuautla; its Nahuatl name means place of fresh water.
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  El Salitre · Village
  Ayala locality at 1,118 m, 1,355 residents in 2020; neighbour of Zacapalco and San Vicente de Juárez, south of Cuautla.
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  Mariano Matamoros · Village
  Ayala locality at 1,432 m south-east of Cuautla, home to about 1,070 people, with the Tenayo hamlets and Tlayecac nearby.
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  Las Arboledas · Village
  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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  Benito Juárez · Village
  A hamlet of 295 people south of Ciudad Ayala, Morelos, near San Pedro Apatlaco and Niños Héroes; 90 homes and La Tortuga hill close by.
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  Diez de Abril · Village
  A housing district in Ayala, Morelos, named for the day Zapata was killed in neighbouring Chinameca; 1,460 residents in 2020.
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  Las Llaves · Village
  Locality in eastern Ayala, at 1,434 m and about 12 km from Ciudad Ayala; it grew from 289 residents in 2000 to 1,402 in 2020.
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  Olintepec · Village
  Village of 1,656 people in Ayala, at 1,164 m, south of San Pedro Apatlaco. The archaeological site has its own page.

Archaeological sites

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  Zona Arqueológica de Olintepec · Archaeological site
  Site occupied from 1500 BC to AD 1610, with a mound and a Dominican chapel among the houses of Nueva Olintepec, Ayala.

Hot springs

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  Balneario "El Axocochetl" · Hot springs
  Ejido balneario in Ayala at km 7 of the Cuautla–Jojutla road: a spring, pools, a slide, a Zapatista museum and camping. Adults 80 pesos.

Neighbouring municipalities

Cuautla · 14 Yecapixtla · 12 Tepalcingo · 6 Tlaltizapán de Zapata · 10 Jonacatepec · 4 Temoac · 3 Jantetelco · 6 Yautepec · 20

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