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Morelos is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico
States of Mexico

The Mexico are a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any stat...
. Morelos has an area of about , making it the second-smallest of the country's states. Morelos is bordered by Mexico State to the north-east and north-west, the Federal District
Distrito Federal

Distrito Federal may refer to:*Brazilian Federal District*Mexican Federal District...
 to the north, Puebla
Puebla

Puebla is a Political divisions of Mexico located in the center east of the country, to the east of Mexico City.The state of Puebla borders the states of Veracruz to the east, Hidalgo , Mexico State, Tlaxcala, and Morelos to the west, and Guerrero and Oaxaca to the south....
 to the east, and Guerrero
Guerrero

The State of Guerrero is a state in the southern meridional region of Mexico. With an area of , it occupies about 3.3% of Mexican territory. It borders the Pacific Ocean to the south , Michoac?n to the west , Oaxaca to the east , and Mexico State , Morelos , and Puebla to the north ....
 to the south-west. In the 2007 census, the population of the state was 1,612,899 people.

The capital of Morelos is the city of Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Morelos in Mexico. As of the 2005 census, the population of the city was 332,197; the municipality's entire population was 349,102 in an area of that includes numerous small localities outside the city, like Ocotepec, where interesting religious celebrations take place, like...
. Morelos also contains the cities of Cuautla
Cuautla, Morelos

Cuautla , officially La heroica e hist?rica Cuautla de Morelos, or H. H. Cuautla de Morelos, is a city and municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Morelos....
, Jiutepec
Jiutepec

Jiutepec is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Morelos.It stands at .The name Jiutepec comes from the nahuatl name "Xihutepetl"....
, and Temixco
Temixco

Temixco is the fourth-largest city in the political divisions of Mexico of Morelos. It stands at in the west-northwest part of the state.The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name....
, and the pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
 ruins of Xochicalco
Xochicalco

Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the house of Flowers"....
.

Morelos was named after José María Morelos
José María Morelos

Jos? Mar?a Teclo Morelos y Pav?n was a Mexico Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary rebel leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811....
, one of the leaders of the Mexican War of Independence
Mexican War of Independence

Mexican War of Independence , was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on 16 September 1810....
.

Morelos has always had great revolutionary activity, and numerous guerrillas have made their homes and struggled for justice in the region.






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Morelos is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico
States of Mexico

The Mexico are a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any stat...
. Morelos has an area of about , making it the second-smallest of the country's states. Morelos is bordered by Mexico State to the north-east and north-west, the Federal District
Distrito Federal

Distrito Federal may refer to:*Brazilian Federal District*Mexican Federal District...
 to the north, Puebla
Puebla

Puebla is a Political divisions of Mexico located in the center east of the country, to the east of Mexico City.The state of Puebla borders the states of Veracruz to the east, Hidalgo , Mexico State, Tlaxcala, and Morelos to the west, and Guerrero and Oaxaca to the south....
 to the east, and Guerrero
Guerrero

The State of Guerrero is a state in the southern meridional region of Mexico. With an area of , it occupies about 3.3% of Mexican territory. It borders the Pacific Ocean to the south , Michoac?n to the west , Oaxaca to the east , and Mexico State , Morelos , and Puebla to the north ....
 to the south-west. In the 2007 census, the population of the state was 1,612,899 people.

The capital of Morelos is the city of Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Morelos in Mexico. As of the 2005 census, the population of the city was 332,197; the municipality's entire population was 349,102 in an area of that includes numerous small localities outside the city, like Ocotepec, where interesting religious celebrations take place, like...
. Morelos also contains the cities of Cuautla
Cuautla, Morelos

Cuautla , officially La heroica e hist?rica Cuautla de Morelos, or H. H. Cuautla de Morelos, is a city and municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Morelos....
, Jiutepec
Jiutepec

Jiutepec is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Morelos.It stands at .The name Jiutepec comes from the nahuatl name "Xihutepetl"....
, and Temixco
Temixco

Temixco is the fourth-largest city in the political divisions of Mexico of Morelos. It stands at in the west-northwest part of the state.The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name....
, and the pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
 ruins of Xochicalco
Xochicalco

Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the house of Flowers"....
.

Morelos was named after José María Morelos
José María Morelos

Jos? Mar?a Teclo Morelos y Pav?n was a Mexico Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary rebel leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811....
, one of the leaders of the Mexican War of Independence
Mexican War of Independence

Mexican War of Independence , was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on 16 September 1810....
.

Morelos has always had great revolutionary activity, and numerous guerrillas have made their homes and struggled for justice in the region. Most notably, the small farming hamlet of Anenecuilco in Morelos was the home town of Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio D?az....
; the state was the center of Zapata's Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910 with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio D?az....
 campaign, and a small city in the Morelos is named after him.

Morelos was traditionally a Nahuatl-speaking territory, and variants of the language are still spoken today in towns such as Hueyapan
Hueyapan

Santo Domingo Hueyapan is a small town in the rural northeastern part of the Mexico States of Mexico of Morelos, which belongs to the municipality of Tetela del Volc?n....
 and Cuentepec, as well as Tetelcingo, where a highly distinctive dialect is used.

Communities

Morelos is subdivided into 33 municipios
Municipalities of Morelos

The Mexico States of Mexico of Morelos is subdivided into 33 municipalities :File:Mexico map, MX-MOR.svg...
 (municipalities
Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
).

Aside from the state capital of Cuernavaca, nicknamed La Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera (The City of Eternal Spring), other major communities include:
  • Cuautla
    Cuautla, Morelos

    Cuautla , officially La heroica e hist?rica Cuautla de Morelos, or H. H. Cuautla de Morelos, is a city and municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Morelos....
  • Emiliano Zapata
    Emiliano Zapata, Morelos

    Emiliano Zapata is a city in the west-central part of the Mexican state of Morelos. It stands at . The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....
  • Jiutepec
    Jiutepec

    Jiutepec is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico in the Mexican state of Morelos.It stands at .The name Jiutepec comes from the nahuatl name "Xihutepetl"....
  • Temixco
    Temixco

    Temixco is the fourth-largest city in the political divisions of Mexico of Morelos. It stands at in the west-northwest part of the state.The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name....
  • Yautepec de Zaragoza
    Yautepec de Zaragoza

    Yautepec is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico of the same name located in the north-central part of the Mexican state of Morelos....


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