Cuernavaca
[key], city, 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.
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