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Colonia Buenos Aires is a colonia of the Cuauhtémoc borough located south of the historic center of Mexico City.This colonia is primarily known for its abundance of dealers selling used car parts, and an incident when six youths were executed by police.
The borough is located in the center-east of Mexico City. It borders Gustavo A. Madero, Cuauhtémoc and Iztacalco with the State of Mexico to the east. The territory measures 33.42 km 2 (13 sq mi) which is 2.24% of the total of Mexico City. The borough has 2,290 blocks and eighty officially designated neighborhoods.
It was named Distrito Federal (Federal District) until February 5, 2016, when it was officially renamed the Ciudad de México. [2] 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).
Mexico City [c] is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and is also North America's most populous city. [14] [15] It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world. [16] Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of 2,240 meters
Marchers at the 2009 Gay Pride Parade Amberes street in Mexico City's Zona Rosa is lined with gay bars. Another prominent area is Amberes Street, home to Mexico City's gay community. [6] This community was established in the 1990s due to the area's overall tolerance and the fact that police here did not extort members of the gay community. [19]
The World Trade Center Mexico City, commonly known by its former name, Hotel de México, is a building complex located in the wealthy neighborhood of Colonia Nápoles in central Mexico City. Its most famous and recognizable feature is the 50-story, 172 metres (564 ft) high Torre WTC , the biggest building in the local area.
Paseo de la Reforma skyline. Paseo de la Reforma (literally "Promenade of the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City.It was designed at the behest of Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig during the era of the Second Mexican Empire and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, [1] such as the Ringstraße in Vienna and the Champs-Élysées in ...
Verónica Anzures has, mainly, residential buildings of art deco and colonial revival styles. The colonia also houses several commercial buildings, Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, headquarters of state-owned Pemex, one of the largest petroleum companies in the world and shopping center Plaza de las Estrellas, being the two most important.