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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.
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.
Ciudad de Guatemala: 220 995 363 4 524.37 5 Fraijanes: 96 63 721 667.38 6 Mixco: 132 517 505 3 920.49 7 Palencia: 196 74 839 381.83 8 San José del Golfo: 84 8 456 100.67 9 San José Pinula: 220 89 636 407.45 10 San Juan Sacatepéquez: 293 284 798 972 11 San Miguel Petapa: 20 150 513 5 017.1 12 San Pedro Ayampuc: 73 67 946 930.77 13 San Pedro ...
Comparative map of the original extent of the system of lakes and the current extent of today's urban area See also: Water management in Greater Mexico City Greater Mexico City spreads over the valley of Mexico , also called the valley of Anáhuac, a 9,560 km 2 (3,691 sq mi) valley that lies at an average of 2,240 m (7,349 ft) above sea level.
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.
The historic center of Mexico City (Spanish: Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central. [2]
Paisaje de San Cristóbal Romita, Luis Coto, 1857.In the distance on the left can be seen the Castillo de Chapultepec.. The area was a very shallow part of Lake Texcoco, dotted with tiny islands and one small island village of Aztacalco during the pre-Hispanic period.
The borough is located in the northwest of the Mexico City, just west of the historic center.The borough is divided into eighty one neighborhoods called colonias.The largest of these is Bosques de las Lomas at 3.2km2, and the smallest is Popo Ampliación with only .33km2.