Anenecuilco
Anenecuilco is a town in the municipality of Ayala, Morelos, Mexico. It has a population of 10,773 people.[1] Mexican revolutionary hero, Emiliano Zapata was born here in 1879, and today the town is the home of a museum in the house of his birth. It is located at 18°46′41″N 98°59′10″W / 18.77806°N 98.98611°W, at a mean height of 1,239 metres above sea level. The placenames means "Place where the water twists and turns" in the Nahuatl language.
In the 1850s many of the towns communal lands were usurped by haciendas, as the growing of Sugar Cane extended through Morelos. Particularly the neighboring hacienda "El Hospital", cut off the towns' access to pastures and water sources, and finally expropriated part of the towns communal landholdings. Around the turn of the century Governor of Morelos, Manuel Alarcón, tried to mediate between the townspeople and the hacendado, but was unsuccessful. The dissatisfaction with the situation led the peasants of Anenecuilco to rise up against the hacienda owners supported by Díaz. Originally an indigenous Nahua community, the town gradually turned mestizo during the second half of the 19th century as the indigenous population crashed due to the unfavorable conditions and mestizos moved in establishing themselves and intermarrying with the locals. [2][3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (2010). "Principales resultados por localidad 2010 (ITER)".
- ↑ Alicia Hernández Chávez. Anenecuilco : memoria y vida de un pueblo. México : El Colegio de México, 1991.ISBN 9681204905
- ↑ Frank McLynn. 2002. Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution Basic Books. p. 51
- ↑ Paul Hart.2006. Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910. UNM Press. pp. 27-30
- ↑ Jesús Sotelo Inclán. 1979. La escuela de Anenecuilco
