Morelos, Mexico · North America
Xoxocotla sits on the route: 5 minutes from San José Vista Hermosa, 39km from Malinalco.
Xoxocotla is in Morelos, Mexico, with about 21,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San José Vista Hermosa, about 4 km away.
Xoxocotla () is a town located in the southern part of the state of Morelos, about 30 km south of the state capital Cuernavaca. The name comes from the Nahuatl language, Xoxo-oco-tlan: “place where there are green pines". Formerly part of Puente de Ixtla, it became its own indigenous municipality on 1 January 2019.Read more
It recorded a population of 21,074 inhabitants in the 2010 Mexican census.
The new municipality is formed by the colonies: Cerrado del Venado, Hermosa, Loma Linda, Arboledas del Sur, La Toma, Palo Prieto, Campo Corbeta, Shaya Michan, Tierra Alta, Campo Xolistlán and Palo Prieto Fraccionamiento. It also includes the Xoxocotla Ejido fields. Zacatepec challenged the inclusion of the 200 hectares (490 acres) of Shaya Michan.
According to the agreement, the people of the new municipality will be ruled according to traditional usos y costumbres (uses and customs), and they will be required to assume part of the public debt of Puente de Ixtla. Eight months after its formation, the municipality is still struggling to resolve its differences with Puente de Ixtla.
Other Indigenous communities that were granted autonomy are Coatetelco and Hueyapan.
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Within an hour or so of Xoxocotla: Tepoztlán (37 km), Malinalco (39 km), Taxco (40 km).
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Xoxocotla is in Morelos, Mexico, about 4 km from San José Vista Hermosa.
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A Morelos town under sheer volcanic cliffs, with a hilltop 13th-century pyramid to the pulque god reached by a steep hour's climb, a fortress-like Dominican convent, and a market known for exotic ice creams.
37 km · about 45 min drive
ancient ruins
Site of the Cuauhcalli, or House of Eagles: one of the very few temples in the Americas carved directly out of solid bedrock, reached by 400 steps up the Hill of the Idols above a quiet colonial town.
39 km · about 45 min drive
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A hillside silver-mining town with winding cobblestone streets, baroque Santa Prisca church, and centuries of silversmithing tradition.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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