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Cuernavaca (kwārnävä`kä), city (1990 pop. 279,187), capital of Morelos state, S Mexico, in the Cuernavaca Valley. Increasingly a suburb of Mexico City (to the north), Cuernavaca has flour mills and beverage, textile, and cement industries. It is also a popular tourist and health resort. In the city are beautiful churches, monasteries, a 16th-century Franciscan convent, a palace built by Hernán Cortés and decorated with murals by Diego Rivera, and a formal garden that was frequented by Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlotta. Nearby is the Toltec ruin, Xochicalco, built over limestone caves. CuernavacaCity (pop., 2000: 327,162), capital of Morelos state, south-central Mexico. As the capital city of the Tlahuica Indians, it was known as Cuauhnáhuac. The name was changed (c. 1521) when it was taken by Hernán Cortés; his palace, now the Morelos State House (decorated with murals by painter Diego Rivera), is located there. Nearby are pre-Columbian ruins. A favourite retreat of the emperor Maximilian, the area is still popular with tourists. The University of Morelos was established there in 1953. Cuernavaca a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop.: 723 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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1) National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico; (2) National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico; (3) Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados-lnstituto Politecnico Nacional, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; (4) Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico As in Nissan and Infiniti (and, to a lesser extent, Renault, as the two companies have cross manufacturing in some facilities, including the Cuernavaca and Aquascalientes plants in Mexico). He continued his intellectual critique of the establishment from his Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a school he had founded in 1960 to train missionaries in the language and culture of Latin America. |
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