Xochitepec

18.7 - 98.183333333333Koordinaten: 18 ° 42 'N, 98 ° 11' W

Xochitepec is a 99.13 km ² large municipality and town of the same name in the Mexican state of Morelos. The congregation had in the last survey in 2005, a total of 53 368 inhabitants, of which 16,627 was attributable to the city. The main source of income of the municipality and its inhabitants are agricultural products, primarily through the local sugar cane plantations.

Xochitepec is located 1,109 meters above sea level and about 13 kilometers south of the federal capital of Cuernavaca. It is located close to the highway that connects Mexico City with Acapulco, and a distance of about 25 kilometers to the pre-Columbian settlement Xochicalco.

History

The name comes from the Nahuatl Xochitepec and is composed of the words Xochi ( flower), Tepe ( hill ) and -c ( in, on ) together and therefore means something like "On the hill of flowers ."

Within the community of Xochitepec is the pre-Columbian archaeological site - Zazacatla, which was declared a cultural heritage of Morelos in 2007 and through which the community is hoping a larger tourism trend.

The imposing building of safe nachkolumbischen epoch is erected in the 16th century Franciscan convent of San Juan Evangelista.

Football

With the completion of the 18,000 -seat stadium Mariano Matamoros in 2002, the football club newly founded in December 2002 CF Cuernavaca Colibries, who had purchased the right to immediate participation in the top division, lured here to host its home games.

After this association was disbanded due to significant financial problems, the stadium was only the home venue for third - and fourth division. In the seasons 2006 /07 and 2007/ 08 here completed the football club CF Galeana Morelos its home games in the Segunda División and third-rate División after a league reform only in the fourth division Tercera. There, they finished at the end of the season 2008/ 09, although the first place of its group, but failed in the subsequent promotion round and moved his home ground before the season 2009/10 the older and smaller Estadio Centenario to Cuernavaca, while based in Tecamac third-tier CA Eca Norte its home games recently discharged at the Estadio Mariano Matamoros.

The Mexican international Gerardo Flores Zúñiga was born in 1986 in Xochitepec.