Xoxocotla, Morelos

Xoxocotla
Municipality and town
Xoxocotla is located in Morelos
Xoxocotla
Xoxocotla
Location of the municipality in Morelos
Xoxocotla is located in Mexico
Xoxocotla
Xoxocotla
Xoxocotla (Mexico)
Coordinates: 18°41′06″N 99°14′38″W / 18.68500°N 99.24389°W / 18.68500; -99.24389
Country Mexico
StateMorelos
Population
 (2010)[1]
 • Total21,074
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time)

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.[2] It recorded a population of 21,074 inhabitants in the 2010 Mexican census.[1]

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.[3]

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.[4] Eight months after its formation, the municipality is still struggling to resolve its differences with Puente de Ixtla.[5]

Other Indigenous communities that were granted autonomy are Coatetelco and Hueyapan.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Información de localidad". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). SEDESOL. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Habrá a partir de 2019 4 municipios indígenas en Morelos". Diario de Morelos (in Spanish). 9 November 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Zacatepec pedirá que revisen la delimitación territorial de Xoxocotla". La Unión (in European Spanish). La union de Morelos. July 19, 2019. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  4. ^ Morelos decreta creación del municipio de Xoxocotla (Dec 20, 2018)
  5. ^ ANTONIETA SÁNCHEZ (August 10, 2019), "A marchas forzadas avanza división territorial en Coatetelco y Xoxocotla" [A forced march advances territorial division in Coatetelco and Xoxocotla], Diario de Morelos (in Spanish), Cuernavaca, retrieved August 10, 2019
  6. ^ Sólo aprobaron a tres nuevos municipios indígenas accessed Dec 22, 2018.

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