Cuernavaca

[ kwer-nuh-vah-kuh; Spanish kwer-nah-vah-kah ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Morelos, in central Mexico.

Cuernavaca

/ kwɛrnaˈβaka /

noun

1. a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

“This place is an invention, a fantasy,” Estrada says of modern Olvera Street, especially compared with her Mexican hometown of Cuernavaca.

From Los Angeles Times

Born in Mexico, she migrated to California with her parents when she was 5 and then returned to Mexico at age 10, spending much of her adolescence living with her grandparents and many aunts in Cuernavaca, a city about a four-hour drive west of San Salvador Huixcolotla.

From New York Times

Those listed in the database include the assassinations of a Honduran activist who protested an open-pit mine in 2020, a Honduran activist who was fighting a new dam on the Ulua River in 2021, and an activist in Cuernavaca, Mexico, who had led protests over inadequate water service.

From Los Angeles Times

And in May the carving returned home in style, escorted by military vehicles from the airport in Cuernavaca, Mexico, to a nearby regional museum.

From New York Times

Scores of Mexico City police accompanied by Mexican marines brandishing assault rifles swooped down Friday on the home of Uriel Carmona, the Morelos attorney general, as Carmona, in telephone interviews with journalists from his residence in the state capital of Cuernavaca, professed his innocence and said he was a victim of politics.

From Los Angeles Times