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Mexico City boroughs Map of Mexico with Mexico City highlighted. Mexico City is divided into 16 boroughs, officially designated as demarcaciones territoriales or colloquially known as alcaldías [citation needed] in Spanish.
The Mexico City megalopolis, also known as the Megalopolis of Central Mexico (Spanish: Corona regional del centro de México), is a megalopolis containing Greater Mexico City and surrounding metropolitan areas. [3]
San Ángel. In Mexico, the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas are known as colonias.One theory suggests that the name, which literally means colony, arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when one of the first urban developments outside Mexico City's core was built by a French immigrant colony.
Also here is the parish called Pronto Socorro. Further east along the Calzada Tacuba-Mexico, there is the Colegio Militar, next to the Metro stop of the same name. This school was founded in 1823 and operated until 1976. Today it is the site of the Universidad del Ejército y Fuerza Aérea which still trains part of Mexico's military. [2]
Church in Colonia Chimalistac Vasco de Quiroga Av. in Álvaro Obregón, with the former icon of the delegación. The municipality of Álvaro Obregón is located in the west of Mexico City, and has a land surface of 96.17 km 2, with an elongated shape from northeast to southwest.
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.
Azcapotzalco (Classical Nahuatl: Āzcapōtzalco Nahuatl pronunciation: [aːskapoːˈt͡saɬko] ⓘ, Spanish pronunciation: [askapoˈtsalko] ⓘ, from āzcapōtzalli “anthill” + -co “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. [3]
Venustiano Carranza is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City, Mexico.Venustiano Carranza extends from the far eastern portion of the historic center of Mexico City eastward to the Peñón de los Baños and the border dividing the then Federal District from the State of Mexico.