Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca is the capital of the state of Morelos to the Mexico. Its name comes from the Nahuatl Cuauhnáhuac which means " boisé" place;. The Spaniards, not knowing to pronounce it, made Cuernavaca of it. It is known like “the city of the eternal spring” because of his constant temperature of 23°C all the year.

This city was always the destination of holidays for the inhabitants of the valley of Mexico City, since the kings Aztèques with the easy classes of our time, while passing by the Spanish .

There are buildings of the cultures Aztec and Teotihuacan E as well as colonial buildings like the Palais of the Cortes. It is there also historic sites of the Guerre of independence of Mexico, workshops of artists and others.

The city lodges many schools accommodating of the students come from the whole world to learn the Spanish .

Following the Earthquake of September 19th 1985 whose epicentre was in the Michoacán and who struck Mexico City so hard, of many inhabitants of DF who had a second home with Cuernavaca established there definitively. It is one of the reasons of very the demographic strong growth which Cuernavaca knew.

Education

Cuernavaca is a city characterized by the presence of several research centres scientist. The Center in Sciences Génomiques (UNAM), the Institute Main road of Public health INSP, the Institute of Biotechnology (UNAM), the Research center in Ingenérie and Science Applied (UAEM), are some examples.

Cuernavaca is also known by the teaching of Spanish the abroads. It takes into account several schools of languages and housing for the students.

Famous personalities

Ivan Illich founds there the CIDOC (Center for Intercultural Documentation) in 1960.
the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig died there in 1990.
Erich Fromm lived there in the Années 1950.
the Israeli scuptor and industrial designer Maurice Ascalon (1913 - 2003) there spent the last years of its life.
Maximilien Ier of Mexico.
the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, lived there during its exile.
Charlie Mingus (1922 - 1979) died in Cuernavaca.
Gil Evans (1912 - 1988) died in Cuernavaca of a Péritonite.
Malcolm Lowry described Cuernavaca under the name of Quauhnahuac in Below the volcano.
Warren Zevon (1947 - 2003) made allusions on Cuernavaca in the song Veracruz in its album Excitable Boy of 1978.
Gloria Lasso (1922 - 2005), singer Spanish, but so French-speaking, died in Cuernavaca.
Adrián Will rivet Pérez

Quotations

In Men in Black, when the agent of the INS asks << From which do you come? >> the driver of a transporting truck of the clandestine immigrants, this one answers <>.

Évêché

Diocese of Cuernavaca
Cathedral of Cuernavaca

See too

Chronologie of Mexico
Histoire of Mexico
Listes of articles on Mexico
Située at 1500m it is an old colonial city the Mexicans carry a great love for this city in charge of history
Cuernavaca Photographie
tourist Cuernavaca
Página del Gobierno municipal of Cuernavaca
Universidad Internacional in Cuernavaca
Portal para Promoción Integral of Ciudad de Cuernavaca
Guia-Cuernavaca
Musée Brady
Paroles of Veracruz
INEGI
Enciclopedia of los Municipios of Mexico City

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