Municipio Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca
Symbols
coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Morelos
Seat	Cuernavaca
surface	200.3 km²
Residents	365,168 (2010)
density	1,823.2 inhabitants per km²
Website	www.cuernavaca.gob.mx/
INEGI no.	17007
politics
Presidente municipal	Jorge Morales Barud

Coordinates: 18 ° 55 ′  N , 99 ° 14 ′  W

Cuernavaca is a municipality in the Mexican state of Morelos . The seat of the municipality and its largest town is the eponymous Cuernavaca , which is also the capital of the state. The municipality had 365,168 inhabitants at the 2010 census, the area amounts to 200.3 km².

geography

The municipality Cuernavaca is located in the northwest of the state at an altitude of 1100  m to 3000  m , about half in the physiographic provinces of the Sierra Volcánica Transversal and the Sierra Madre del Sur . It borders the Municipios Huitzilac , Tepoztlán , Jiutepec , Emiliano Zapata , Temixco and Miacatlán, as well as the state of México .

About 38% of the community area is urbanized, each about 20% of the area is pasture land, forests or areas for arable farming.

places

In total, the municipality of Cuernavaca comprises 65 localidades . The biggest are:

places	Residents
Cuernavaca	338,650
Fraccionamiento Lomas de Ahuatlán	008,990
Villa Santiago	003,408
Fraccionamiento Universo	001,862

Web links

Commons : Municipio Cuernavaca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Cuernavaca (Spanish)
• INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Cuernavaca (Spanish; PDF)