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The Valley of Mexico is a basin with an average elevation of 2,236 m (7,336 ft) above mean sea level located in the southern highlands of Mexico's central altiplano.Lake Texcoco formerly extended over a large portion of the southern half of the basin, where it was the largest of an interconnected chain of five major and several smaller lakes (the other main lakes being Lakes Xaltocan, Zumpango ...
The western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan is the southern part of the main island. The northern part is Tlatelolco. Tenochtitlan covered an estimated 8 to 13.5 km 2 (3.1 to 5.2 sq mi), [6] situated on the western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco. At the time of Spanish conquests, Mexico City comprised both Tenochtitlan and ...
The lake system within the Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest in around 1519. An 1847 map of Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco. Before the 20th century, the Mexico City portion of the valley contained a series of lakes, with saline lakes to the north near the town of Texcoco and freshwater ones to the south. [8]
Map of the archaeological site. Cuicuilco is an important archaeological site located on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco in the southeastern Valley of Mexico, in what is today the borough of Tlalpan in Mexico City. Construction of the Cuicuilco pyramid began a few centuries BCE, during the Late Preclassic period of Mesoamerican history.
Tetzcoco was founded in the 12th century, on the eastern shore of Lake Texcoco, probably by the Chichimecs.In or about 1337, the Acolhua, with Tepanec help, expelled Chichimecs from Tetzcoco and Tetzcoco became the Acolhua capital city, taking over that role from Coatlinchan.
Oztoticpac Lands Map. The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco is a pictorial Aztec codex on native paper (amatl) from Texcoco ca. 1540. [1] It is held by the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, measuring 76 cm × 84 cm (29 + 29 ⁄ 32 by 33 + 1 ⁄ 16 inches) and now on display in the Library of Congress as part of its permanent exhibition "Exploring the Early Americas". [2]
Texcoco de Mora (modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ, Otomi: Antamäwädehe) is a city located in the State of Mexico, 25 km northeast of Mexico City. [3] Texcoco de Mora is the municipal seat of the municipality of Texcoco. In the pre-Hispanic era, this was a major Aztec city on the shores of Lake Texcoco.
Azcapotzalco was a pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (state), capital of the Tepanec empire, in the Valley of Mexico, on the western shore of Lake Texcoco. The name Azcapotzalco means "at the anthill" in Nahuatl. Its inhabitants were called Azcapotzalca.