Tlayacapan
Sign in to saveTlayacapan () is the name of a town and a municipality located in the northeast part of Morelos state in central Mexico. It is located 60 km east from the state capital of Cuernavaca and about 1.5 hours south of Mexico City. It is a rural area, whose way of life has not changed much over the 20th century, with 90% of its population still partially or fully dependent on agriculture. The town has old mansions, houses with red tile roofs and streets paved with stones. Many ravines crisscross the area and are crossed by numerous stone bridges.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tlayacapan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town & Municipality
- Settlement.total_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- FacadeBautistaTlayacapan01.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Facade of the San Juan Bautista Church
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mexico
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Morelos
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal President
- Settlement.leader_name
- Rodolfo Juan Ramírez Martínez
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 15th century
- Settlement.established_title2
- Municipal Status
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 71.56
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Article
30 sectionsContents
- Landmarks
- The monastery
- The chapels
- La Cerería
- Former Hacienda of San Nicolás
- History
- Prehispanic Period
- Conquest & Colonial Period
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Culture
- Carnival and the Chinelos
- Banda Tlayacapan
- Pottery and juego de aire
- Food
- Geography
- Hydrography
- Climate
- Wildlife
- Economy
- Demographics
- Transportation
- Tlayacapan in media
- Films
- Music videos
- Television series
- See also
- References
- External links
Tlayacapan () is the name of a town and a municipality located in the northeast part of Morelos state in central Mexico. It is located 60 km east from the state capital of Cuernavaca and about 1.5 hours south of Mexico City. It is a rural area, whose way of life has not changed much over the 20th century, with 90% of its population still partially or fully dependent on agriculture. The town has old mansions, houses with red tile roofs and streets paved with stones. Many ravines crisscross the area and are crossed by numerous stone bridges.
The main landmark is the former monastery of San Juan Bautista, which towers over all the other structures. It was built beginning the 1530s, along with 26 chapels scattered around the original town as part of the "spiritual conquest" of the area. Today, this monastery is part of the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl, which was made a World Heritage Site in 1994. Culturally, the town is famous for two things: being the origin of the Chinelos dance and the home of the Banda Tlayacapan band, the most important culturally in the state and nationally recognized.