Cuautla, Morelos: 14 Places to Visit, Map & Guide

14 places with their own page in the municipality of Cuautla, in the state of Morelos.

Map of Cuautla

Cuautla · City
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.

Calderón · Village
Cuautla locality 9 km from downtown, below Cerro de Calderón, with an aqueduct and a former station catalogued as monuments.
Exhacienda el Hospital · Village
Village in Cuautla beside a former sugar hacienda: a brick chimney, a chapel and a 1,500 m aqueduct survive.
Puxtla · Village
Village in Cuautla municipality at about 1,267 m, with 1,901 people in 2020; its Nahuatl name roughly means "place of soft things".
Narciso Mendoza · Village
Cuautla locality at 1,342 m north of the city, named for the Boy Artilleryman of the 1812 siege; close to 2,000 residents.
Diecinueve de Febrero de Mil Ochocientos Doce · Village
Colony north of Cuautla named for the day the 1812 siege began; 1,149 residents in 2020, next to Cocoyoc and Tierra Larga.
Peña Flores · Village
Locality of 4,448 people (2020) just north of Cuautla, also called Palo Verde, at 1,336 m above sea level.

Balneario Los Limones · Hot springs
Family balneario in the middle of Cuautla, on calle Centinela, with pools, a splash pool, kids' slides, courts and a camping area.

Templo y exconvento de San Diego · Landmark
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.
Museo del Oriente de Morelos "Casa de Morelos" · Landmark
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.
Antigua estación del ferrocarril de Cuautla · Landmark
Cuautla's 1881 railway station, now the Museo Vivencia Ferrocarril 279, home to a 1921 Baldwin steam engine that can still run.
Parroquia de Santiago Apóstol de Cuautla · Landmark
Cuautla's main parish church, a former Dominican priory finished in 1606, with a two-towered neoclassical front facing the main square.
Tetelcingo · Landmark
A Nahua community north of Cuautla where Mösiehuali is still spoken and the chincuete still worn; harvest fiesta in October. Barrio Mágico since 2024.
Estadio Isidro Gil Tapia · Landmark
Cuautla's football stadium, home of the now-dissolved C.D. Cuautla, a club that played four top-flight seasons in the 1950s.