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Central Mexico, home to Mexico City, features rich culinary traditions like mole and tacos al pastor, and is the birthplace of Mariachi music. Southern Mexico, including states like Oaxaca and Chiapas, has a strong indigenous influence, with tropical cuisine featuring cochinita pibil and mole de olla, and lush landscapes.
Mexico City view, c. 1890. The history of Mexico City starts with Tenochtitlan, a Mexica settlement built around 1325 A.D in the Valley of Mexico. Developed as a series of artificial islands on a lake, the village was connected by a system of channels, surrounding the Chapultepec aqueduct that served as the main resource of fresh water and therefore as the foundation for the evolution of the ...
Mexico City [c] is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and is also North America's most populous city. [14] [15] It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world. [16] Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of 2,240 meters
The Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC; National Museum of Cultures) is a national museum in Mexico City dedicated to education about the world's cultures, both past and present. It is housed in a colonial-era building that used to be the mint for making coins.
The Zócalo, or main plaza of Mexico City today, was developed to the southwest of Templo Mayor, which is located in the block between Seminario and Justo Sierra streets. [5] The site is part of the Historic Center of Mexico City, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987. It received 801,942 visitors in 2017. [6]
Mexico City has a long tradition of making objects from a hard kind of paper mache called cartonería, generally for the various festival and celebrations of the year. [8] It is a major industry, with various families and individuals noted for this work, [ 1 ] including the Linares family and Susana Buyo, nicknamed “Señora de los Monstruos ...
The legacy of Mesoamerica: history and culture of a Native American civilization. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-337445-9. Carrasco, David, ed. (2001). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Culture (3 vols. ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510815-9. Wauchope, Robert, ed. (1964–76). Handbook of Middle American Indians (16 vols. ed ...
Museo Nacional de las Culturas Populares (National Museum of Popular Cultures) is a museum in Mexico City dedicated to Mexico's ethnic and cultural diversity. This diversity not only includes that of its indigenous peoples, but also those of its regions and socioeconomic strata.