The Church announced a groundbreaking date for the Cuernavaca Mexico Temple and selected a site for the Otavalo Ecuador Temple, according to LDS Daily. The Cuernavaca groundbreaking joins multiple temple construction projects underway in Latin America.

The Otavalo site selection marks progress toward the temple announced in an earlier General Conference. Temple site announcements typically precede architectural planning and groundbreaking by one to two years.

The updates are part of the Church's ongoing temple construction program in Mexico and Ecuador, where membership growth has driven demand for additional temples in recent decades.