Jonacatepec

18°41′N 98°48′W / 18.683°N 98.800°W / 18.683; -98.800 Jonacatepec de Leondro Valle is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The municipality reported 15,690 inhabitants in the year 2015 census.[1]

The name Jonacatepec comes from Nahuatl language and was written Xonakatepek . Its etymological roots come from Xonaka-tl (onion), Tepe-tl (hill), k apócope from the adverb ko (place) and means "on the hill where there are onions".[2] Leondro Valle is in reference to a supporter of the Plan de Ayutla of 1857 which opposed the dictatorship of Antonio López de Santa Anna. Leondro Valle was from the town of Jonacatepec.[3]

Jonacatepec has 98 km2 (38 sq. miles), which represents 1.97% of the total area of the state. It is 1,290 meters (3,967 feet) above sea level.

  1. ^ "Número de habitantes. Morelos". Inegi (in Spanish). Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  2. ^ "Jonacatepec" [Jonacatepec] (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de Morelos 2018=2024. Retrieved Dec 30, 2018.
  3. ^ "Jonacatepec, Morelos" [Jonacatepec, Morelos] (in Spanish). Enciclopedia de los Municipios y los Delegaciones de Mexico. Retrieved Dec 30, 2018.