Cuautla, Morelos

18.816666666667 - 98.95Koordinaten: 18 ° 49 'N, 98 ° 57 ' W

Cuautla is with 145 482 inhabitants ( 2005), the third-largest and second most important city in the Mexican state of Morelos, located almost in the geographical center. The surrounding city district also bears the name Cuautla and has (including the city) 160 285 inhabitants ( 2005). The city has sulphurous mineral springs and is located in a world dominated by sugar growing agricultural region, about 1300 meters above sea level.

History

The name comes from the Nahuatl Cuautla language and means " land of the eagle " (from cuauhtli = eagle and tlan = land, soil ). Before the Cuautla region was conquered in 1521 by the Spanish, the area was first settled by the Olmecs and later by the Aztecs.

Between February 19 and May 2, 1812 one of the fiercest battles of the Mexican War of Independence took place in Cuautla. In this period the city was defended by the troops of the priest and Generals José María Morelos y Pavón against the Spanish troops. When it these then but managed to take the city, Morelos made ​​a spectacular retreat. In memory of the glorious defense of the city by Morelos in 1829, she received the full name " La heroica e histórica Cuautla de Morelos " ( the heroic and historic Cuautla of Morelos ).

Between 1887 and 1889, Cuautla was the capital of the State of Morelos.

In March 1911 Cuautla was the first city that was taken during the Mexican Revolution of the troops of the Revolution and peasant leader Emiliano Zapata. Zapata was born in 1879, in the resort near the town of Cuautla place Anenecuilco and 1919 lured and shot in neighboring Chinameca into an ambush. In his honor was erected on the Plazuela Revolucion del Sur, the centrally located main square of the city, a monument, under which there are also his remains.

Sports

The CD Cuautla is the most significant and most traditional football club in the city. He was 1955-1959 for four years in La Liga, the top division of the Mexican football, represented. At that time he played its home games on the grounds of the Parque del Balneario, one of the most important theaters of the city. Currently the club plays (under the full name Arroceros del CD Cuautla ) in the Segunda División third-rate.