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Boroughs (Spanish: demarcaciones territoriales) are the subdivisions of Mexico City, the capital city and a federative entity of Mexico.Currently there are 16 boroughs in Mexico City and keep the same territory and name as the former [when?] delegaciones while expanding their local government powers. [1]
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.
The 16 boroughs of the Federal District. Mexico City is not organized into municipalities. Despite containing the word "City", it is not governed as a city but as a unit consisting of multiple subdivisions.
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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.
During the Spanish colonial era (late 15th century – early 19th century) and the first century of independent Mexico (early 19th century – early 20th century), the then town of Santa Fe had an open landscape of sand mining activity, which was divided between the towns of Santa Fe, Santa Lucia, San Mateo and San Pedro in Cuajimalpa.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. Capital and most populous city of Mexico This article is about the capital of Mexico. For other uses, see Mexico City (disambiguation). Capital and megacity in Mexico Mexico City Ciudad de México (Spanish) Co-official names [a] Capital and megacity Skyline of Mexico City with the Torre ...