Cuautla

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Cuautla
Coordinates: 18 ° 49 ′  N , 98 ° 57 ′  W
Map: Morelos
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Cuautla
Cuautla on the map of Morelos
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Morelos
Municipio Cuautla
Residents 154,358  (2010)
City insignia
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Detailed data
height 1294  m
prefix 735
Website www.cuautla.gob.mx
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With 154,358 inhabitants (2010), Cuautla is the third largest and second most important city in the Mexican state of Morelos and is almost in its geographical center. Cuautla is the administrative seat of the municipality Cuautla with 175,207 inhabitants (as of 2010). The city has sulphurous healing springs and is located in an agricultural region dominated by sugar cultivation, about 1300 meters above sea level.

history

The name Cuautla comes from the Nahuatl language and roughly means "land of the eagle" (from cuauhtli 'eagle' and tlan 'land, soil'). Before the Cuautla region was conquered by the Spanish in 1521, the area was first populated by Olmecs and later by Aztecs .

Between February 19 and May 2, 1812, one of the fiercest battles of the Mexican War of Independence took place in Cuautla . During this time the city was defended against the Spanish troops by the troops of the priest and general José María Morelos y Pavón . When they did manage to take the city, Morelos managed a spectacular retreat. In memory of the glorious defense of the city by Morelos, it was given the full name "La heroica e histórica Cuautla de Morelos" (the heroic and historical Cuautla of Morelos) in 1829.

Between 1887 and 1889, Cuautla was the capital of the state of Morelos.

In March 1911, Cuautla was the first city to be captured by the troops of the revolutionary and peasant leader Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution . Zapata was born in Anenecuilco , not far from the city of Cuautla, in 1879 , and was ambushed and shot in 1919 in neighboring Chinameca . In his honor , a memorial was erected in the Plazuela Revolucion del Sur , the central main square of the city, under which his remains are also located.

Sports

The CD Cuautla is the most important and traditional football club in the city. He was represented for four years between 1955 and 1959 in the Primera División , the top division of Mexican football. At that time he played his home games on the grounds of the Parque del Balneario , which is one of the city's most important venues. Currently the club (under the full name Arroceros del CD Cuautla ) plays in the third-class Segunda División .

Web links

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