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Morelos
Morelos is a small state of central Mexico south of Mexico City, with Cuernavaca as its capital. Its warm valleys were settled by Nahua peoples and contain the hilltop city of Xochicalco, and in colonial times it became a sugar-growing region. Created in 1869 and named after the independence leader José María Morelos, it was the heartland of Emiliano Zapata's revolution from 1911.
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