San Jerónimo Acazulco is a town and community in the municipality of

Ocoyoacac Ocoyoacac is a municipality in the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipal seat is the town of Ocoyoacac. The municipality covers an area of 134.71 km². It is one of the 17 municipalities that border Mexico City. It borders the Distrito F ...

Mexico State The State of Mexico ( es, Estado de México; ), officially just Mexico ( es, México), is one of the administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Commonly known as Edomex (from ) to distinguish it from th ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. Once an agricultural community, the economy of the

ejido An ''ejido'' (, from Latin ''exitum'') is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. People awarded ejidos in ...

is now primarily based on tourist commerce. It is within

La Marquesa National Park La Marquesa National Park, with the official name Parque Nacional Insurgente Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, is a National park in the State of Mexico, in central Mexico. It commemorates the battlefield site of the 1810 Battle of Monte de las Cruces, ...

. The town is an indigenous community of the

Otomi people The Otomi (; es, Otomí ) are an indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region. The Otomi are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguisticall ...

, and most of the elderly still speak the Acazulco Otomi dialect of the

Otomi language Otomi (; ) is an Oto-Pamean languages, Oto-Pamean language family spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the Mexican Plateau, central ''altiplano'' region of Mexico. Otomi consists of several closely related languages, many ...

. In 2010 census there are 4,827 inhabitants. The community has an active

cargo system The cargo system (also known as the civil-religious hierarchy, ''fiesta'' or ''mayordomía'' system) is a collection of secular and religious positions held by men or households in rural indigenous communities throughout central and southern Mexic ...

of religious fiestas, with leaders of its religious fraternities taking turns putting on public celebrations throughout the year. *

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