Sierra de Tepoztlan or Tepozteco Mountain is located near the village of

Tepoztlán Tepoztlán () is a town in the central Mexican state of Morelos. It is located at in the heart of the Tepoztlán Valley. The town serves as the seat of government for the municipality of the same name. The town had a population of 14,130 inhabit ...

, a '' Pueblo Mágico'', in

Morelos Morelos, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos, is a landlocked state located in south-central Mexico. It is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Mun ...

, Mexico. The mountain range, "vulnerable to landslides, erosions, and flooding", contains only small areas of land which are appropriate for cultivation. It contains the ruins of a small,

pre-Hispanic In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European c ...

Ometochtli In Aztec mythology, Ometochtli () is the collective or generic name of various individual deities and supernatural figures associated with pulque ('), an alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented sap of the '' maguey'' plant. By the Late Postc ...

temple, known as El Tepozteco. It is believed that there were a number of settlements at one time at the mountain base. The Sierra is in

El Tepozteco National Park El Tepozteco National Park is a national park in Morelos state of central Mexico. It protects 232.58 km2 in the mountains of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. The park includes El Tepozteco, an archeological site featuring an Aztec temple. ...

, which was established in 1937.Urbina Torres, Fernando, Aquiles Argote Cortés, and César D. Jiménez Piedragil (1997). "Protected Areas of Morelos". in Aid, Charles S., Michael F. Carter, and A. Townsend Peterson. ''Protected Areas of Western Mexico: Status, Management, and Needs''. Colorado Bird Observatory, September 1, 1997. Accessed 14 November 2021

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