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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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: ... Neighborhoods in Mexico City—Mexico, D. F. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 ...
Pages in category "Streets in Mexico City" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Neighborhoods in Mexico City (3 C, 78 P) ... Shopping districts and streets in Mexico (10 P) T. Neighborhoods in Tijuana (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Neighborhoods ...
Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square. It is immediately west of Colonia Roma , together with which it is designated as a "Barrio Mágico Turístico" ("Touristic Magic Neighborhood").
Street map of Villa Coyoacán. To distinguish it from the rest of Coyoacán borough, the former independent community is referred to as Villa Coyoacán or the historic center of the borough. Consisting now of 29 blocks, it is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mexico City, located 10 km south of the Zocalo (main square) of Mexico City.
The streets in the neighborhood have names of flowers and fruits such as Hortensia, Olivo and Mango, Moras; Mexican mountains such as Iztaccihuátl and Ajusco.There are, nevertheless, streets whose names do not match this criterion, such as Minerva street, Patricio Sainz street and Francia street.
[5] [6] Many of the names of the rivers, streets and neighborhoods have their origin in the pre Hispanic period. [6] It has a territory of 26.63 km 2 (2,661.5 hectares), which is 1.8% of Mexico City, with an average altitude of 2,242 metres. It consists of 56 neighborhoods called "colonias" and three major apartment complexes (unidades ...