Morelos

Morelos is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. Morelos has an area of about 4,941 square kilometers (1,907.7 sq mi), making it the second-smallest of the country's states. Morelos is bordered by Mexico State to the north-east and north-west, the Federal District to the north, Puebla to the east, and Guerrero to the south-west. In the 2007 census, the population of the state was 1,612,899 people. Morelos was named after José María Morelos,... more

Morelos is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. Morelos has an area of about 4,941 square kilometers (1,907.7 sq mi), making it the second-smallest of the country's states. Morelos is bordered by Mexico State to the north-east and north-west, the Federal District to the north, Puebla to the east, and Guerrero to the south-west. In the 2007 census, the population of the state was 1,612,899 people. Morelos was named after José María Morelos, one of the leaders of the Mexican War of Independence. Morelos has always had great revolutionary activity, and numerous guerrillas have made their homes and struggled for justice in the region. Most notably, the small farming hamlet of Anenecuilco in Ayala, Morelos was the home town of Emiliano Zapata; the state was the center of Zapata's Mexican Revolution campaign, and a small city in Morelos is named after him. Morelos was traditionally a Nahuatl-speaking territory, and variants of the language are still spoken today in towns such as... less