It is bordered by Calcahualco, the state of Puebla, Ixhuatlán del Café and Federal Highway 180.
The oldest church in Huatusco is dedicated to San Antonio de Padua with a height of approximately 20 meters.
A nearby hill, called "Cerro de Guadalupe" has a church on top of it, where every year on December 11 and 12 Catholic people hold religious festivities.
Economic activities in Huatusco include growing coffee, sugar cane and several fruits.
The suffix of Huatusco, "de Chicuellar" allegedly comes from a story where a man wanted to buy the town to industrialize it, but a poor farmer named Chicuellar paid a large amount of money to prevent that from happening.