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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.
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.
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.
Colonia Cuauhtémoc is a colonia (official neighborhood) in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of central Mexico City.It is located just north of Paseo de la Reforma, west of the historic center of Mexico City.
Hydrology map of the borough. The borough extends over 23.1 km2 or 2,317.4 hectares, all of which is urbanized. It accounts for 1.75% of the total territory of Mexico City, and it is the smallest of the 16 boroughs. [6] [4] The land is flat and located on the lakebed of Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico at an altitude of 2,235 meters above ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. Capital and largest 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 ...
The Condesa as a whole, consisting of the three colonias, is bordered by: . Av. Veracruz, Av. Álvaro Obregón and Av. Yucatán on the north/northeast, across which is Colonia Roma Norte
Colonia San Rafael is a colonia of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just west of the historic city center.It was established in the late 19th century as one of the first formal neighborhoods outside of the city center and initially catered to the wealthy of the Porfirio Díaz era.