Cuernavaca
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- Names
Cuernavaca
Cuauhnáhuac
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Was capital of Tlahuica Indians; captured by Cortés 1521; served as seat of marquessate of valley of Oaxaca during colonial era; has many pre-Colombian ruins; industries include bottling plants, flour mills, cement factories & textile mills.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Died
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