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Colonia Juarez - includes the Zona Rosa area, a gay friendly shopping area; Coyoacán - Town founded by Cortés swallowed by the city in the 1950s, countercultural neighborhood in downtown. Del Valle - Upscale residential neighborhood and cradle of José López Portillo and many other important people in Mexican history.
Polanco is a neighborhood in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City.Polanco is an affluent colonia, noted for its luxury shopping along Presidente Masaryk Avenue, the most expensive street in Mexico, [1] as well as for the numerous prominent cultural institutions located within the neighborhood.
Greater Mexico City is the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico (Spanish: Zona metropolitana del Valle de México). [2] It encompasses Mexico City itself and 60 adjacent municipalities of the State of Mexico and Hidalgo .
In 1933, the neighborhood association, Asociación de Vecinos de la Colonia Cuauhtémoc, contracted with the city to make the area a “special zone for controlled development” in order to keep the area's primarily residential nature. Most commercial construction is limited to the areas facing Paseo de la Reforma. [5] [6]
According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the second most populated entity with 9,209,944 inhabitants and the smallest by land area, spanning 1,494.3 square kilometres (577.0 sq mi). [3] [4] Map of Mexico with Mexico City highlighted. Despite containing the word "city", it is not governed as a city but as a unit consisting of multiple ...
Cuauhtémoc (Spanish pronunciation: [kwawˈtemok] ⓘ), named after the 16th-century Aztec ruler Cuauhtémoc, is a borough (demarcación territorial) of Mexico City. It contains the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire urban core of Mexico City in the 1920s.
One of the first studies on a methodology to define and quantify the metropolitan areas in Mexico was published by El Colegio de México in 1978. In Luis Unikel's book "Urban Development in Mexico: Diagnosis and Future Implications", a metropolitan area was designated as "the territorial area that includes the political and administrative units from a central city, and any contiguous, urban ...
Santa Fe is a business district and edge city in the west of Mexico City. It is part of the alcaldías (boroughs) of Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón. Santa Fe consists mainly of luxury highrise buildings surrounding Centro Santa Fe, which is the largest mall in Latin America. The district includes a residential area and three university campuses.