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Puente De Ixtla
Puente de Ixtla is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. It stands at . The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The municipality reported 66,435 inhabitants in the year 2015 census. The town gets its name from a 16th-century bridge (''Puente'') and ''Ixtla'', which comes from Nahuatl ''its'' (obsidian) and ''tla'' (abundance), meaning "Place where obsidian abounds".http://www.realmexico.info/2013/11/puente-de-ixtla.html (December 20, 2018) History Puente de Ixtla belonged to the seigniory of Cuauhnahuac and was thus tributary of the Aztecs. Prehispanic ruins have been found near the Church of San Mateo Apostol. A stone bridge was constructed over the Rio Chalma and the village became a place of required passage for the caravans from Acapulco to Mexico City. Legend has it that members of the Jesuits secretly buried a treasure in a cave near the ''ranchería'' (English: settlement) of Cacahuananche in 1767, the year the religious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puente De Ixtla
Puente de Ixtla is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. It stands at . The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The municipality reported 66,435 inhabitants in the year 2015 census. The town gets its name from a 16th-century bridge (''Puente'') and ''Ixtla'', which comes from Nahuatl ''its'' (obsidian) and ''tla'' (abundance), meaning "Place where obsidian abounds".http://www.realmexico.info/2013/11/puente-de-ixtla.html (December 20, 2018) History Puente de Ixtla belonged to the seigniory of Cuauhnahuac and was thus tributary of the Aztecs. Prehispanic ruins have been found near the Church of San Mateo Apostol. A stone bridge was constructed over the Rio Chalma and the village became a place of required passage for the caravans from Acapulco to Mexico City. Legend has it that members of the Jesuits secretly buried a treasure in a cave near the ''ranchería'' (English: settlement) of Cacahuananche in 1767, the year the religious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Chiapas Earthquake
The 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck at 23:49 CDT on 7 September (local time; 04:49 on the 8th UTC) in the Gulf of Tehuantepec off the southern coast of Mexico near the state of Chiapas, approximately southwest of Pijijiapan (alternately, south-southwest of Tres Picos), with a Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''). The moment magnitude was estimated to be . The earthquake caused all of Mexico City to tremble, prompting people to evacuate after the early warning system was triggered. It also generated a tsunami with waves above tide level; and tsunami alerts were issued for surrounding areas. Mexico's president called it the strongest earthquake recorded in the country in a century. It was also the second strongest recorded in the country's history, behind the magnitude 8.6 earthquake in 1787, and the largest recorded globally in 2017. Tectonic setting The Gulf of Tehuantepec lies above the convergent boundary where the Cocos Plate is being subducted below the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amacuzac
Amacuzac is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. The name means ''In the River of Yellow Amates.'' Amacuzac stands at , at a mean height of 900 meters (3,000 ft.) above sea level. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The municipality reported 17,772 inhabitants in the year 2015 census and covers a total surface area of 125 km² (48.3 miles2). The 2020 census reported 17,598 inhabitants in the municipality and 5,575 in the city of Amacuzac. History The ancestors of the people of Amacuzac demonstrate Olmec influence. Small beads, vessels, human figurines, ceremonial whistles, and stone carvings have been dated to the years 900 to 500 BCE, coinciding with the peak of La Venta in Tabasco. During the Colonial era, Amacuzac belonged to the Marquessate of the Valley of Oaxaca. Martin Cortés built the Hacienda de San Gabriel, and in 1554 he ceded land to build a church along the highway to Acapulco. The church, which took three hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tlaquiltenango
Tlaquiltenango is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. It is south of Mexico city and southeast of Cuernavaca, the state capital via Mexican Federal Highway 95D. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name. The toponym ''Tlaquiltenango ''comes from a Nahuatl name and means "place of whitewashed walls". The municipality reported 33,844 inhabitants in the year 2015 census. History Prehispanic history There are two pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in Tlaquiltenango: ''Chimalacatlan'' and ''Huaxtla''. Chamalacatlan was built on the top of the hill of "El Venado"; it had 33 terraces and an equal number of piles of cut stone. There is also a small cave that was used for ceremonies. From the top of the hill, you can see Lake Tequesquitengo, Xochicalco, and parts of the state of Guerrero. The site is almost unique among Mesoamerican ruins in that the walls and platform were constructed of megaliths rather than the smaller rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsas River
The Balsas River (Spanish Río Balsas, also locally known as the Mezcala River, or Atoyac River) is a major river of south-central Mexico. The basin flows through the states of Guerrero, México, Morelos, and Puebla. Downstream of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, it forms the border between Guerrero and Michoacán. The river flows through the Sierra Madre del Sur, and empties into the Pacific Ocean at Mangrove Point, adjacent to the city of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. Several rapids along the course of the Balsas River limit its navigability and thus the river has been largely used for generation of hydroelectric power, flood control and irrigation. History The Balsas River valley was possibly one of the earliest maize growing sites in Mexico, dating from around 9200 years ago. Though it is known that successive communities of Yop, Coixica, Matlatzinca ( Chontal), Tlahuica and Xochimilca with Nahua succeeding in the end have lived in the region, archeological excavation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra De Huautla Biosphere Reserve
The Sierra de Huautla is a mountain range and biosphere reserve in central Mexico. Located in southern Morelos, the Sierra de Huautla is a southern extension of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt range into the Balsas Basin. The dry forests of Sierra are home to a diverse community of animals and plants, and the reserve's outstanding biodiversity is recognized by UNESCO."Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico". UNESCO, October 2018. Accessed 10 September 2021/ref> Geography The Sierra de Huautla consists of hills and mountains from 700 to over 2400 meters elevation. They generally run east–west, extending into the Balsas Basin and connecting to the main mass of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt on the northwest. They form the southern boundary of Morelos and extend into adjacent Guerrero and Puebla states. The highest peak is 2440 m. The Amacuzac River, a tributary of the Balsas River, runs from north to south and bisects the range. The biosphere reserve covers the centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2006 in Mexico. Incumbents Federal government President * President ** Vicente Fox , until November 30 ** Felipe Calderón , starting December 1 Cabinet * Interior Secretary (SEGOB) ** Santiago Creel, until November 30 **Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, starting December 1 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) **Luis Ernesto Derbez, until November 30 ** Patricia Espinosa, starting December 1 * Communications Secretary (SCT) **Pedro Cerisola, until November 30 ** Luis Téllez, starting December 1 * Education Secretary (SEP) **Reyes Tamez, until November 30 ** Josefina Vázquez Mota, starting December 1 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA) ** Gerardo Clemente Vega, until November 30 ** Guillermo Galván Galván, starting December 1 * Secretary of Navy (SEMAR) **Marco Antonio Peyrot González, until November 30 ** Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza, starting December 1 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) **Francisco Javier Salazar S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (; August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called ''Zapatismo''. Zapata was born in the rural village of Anenecuilco in Morelos, in an era when peasant communities came under increasing repression from the small-landowning class who monopolized land and water resources for sugarcane production with the support of dictator Porfirio Díaz (President from 1877 to 1880 and 1884 to 1911). Zapata early on participated in political movements against Díaz and the landowning '' hacendados'', and when the Revolution broke out in 1910 he became a leader of the peasant revolt in Morelos. Cooperating with a number of other peasant leaders, he formed the Liberation Army of the South, of which he soon became the undisputed leader. Zapata's forces contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an '' encomienda'' (the right to the labor of certain subjects). For a short time, he served as '' alcalde'' (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, which he partly funded. His enmity with the Governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Federal Highway 95D
Federal Highway 95D is a toll highway connecting Mexico City to Acapulco, Guerrero. Highway 95D is among the most important toll roads in the country, serving as a backbone for traffic out of Mexico City toward Morelos and tourist destinations in Guerrero. Three segments, from north to south, comprise Federal Highway 95: the segment between Mexico City and Cuernavaca, the segment from Cuernavaca to Acapulco (commonly known as the Autopista del Sol or Sun Highway), and the Maxitúnel Interurbano Acapulco, separated from the other two segments and offering a bypass under local traffic in Acapulco. México–Cuernavaca The first and oldest segment of Highway 95D is that running between Mexico City and Cuernavaca, which was the second toll road in the country. The original construction of the highway was performed by Compañía Constructora del Sur, S.A. de C.V., a state-controlled predecessor to Caminos y Puentes Federales, the government agency that maintains the México–Cuernava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temixco
Temixco is the fourth-largest city in the Mexican state 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. The municipality reported 116,143 inhabitants in 2010, a growth rate of 1.5% for each of the previous ten years. The municipality has an area of . Temixco is from Cuernavaca and from Mexico City.García, Jerry. '' Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945''. University of Arizona Press, February 27, 2014. , 9780816598861. p174 History of Temixco Prehispanic History The area around Xochicalco (In the place of the House of Flowers) was settled in about 200 BCE, although the city reached its apex between AD 650 and 900. Xochicalco was mentioned by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in the 16th century, and it may have been settled by refugees from Teotihuacan. The city traded with populations in Oaxaca, the Yucatán Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
