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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.
Colonia Florida is located in the Álvaro Obregón borough, in southern Mexico City. The neighborhood is bordered by: [1] Barranca del Muerto to the north, across which is Colonia Crédito Constructor in the Benito Juárez borough. Avenida de los Insurgentes Sur to the west, across which is Guadalupe Inn
Church in Colonia Chimalistac Vasco de Quiroga Av. in Álvaro Obregón, with the former icon of the delegación. The municipality of Álvaro Obregón is located in the west of Mexico City, and has a land surface of 96.17 km 2, with an elongated shape from northeast to southwest.
Colonia Santa María la Ribera is a colonia located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just west of the historic center.It was created in the late 19th century for the affluent who wanted homes outside of the city limits.
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.
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]
Benito Juárez (pronounced [beˈnito ˈxwaɾes] ⓘ), is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City.It is a largely residential area, located to the south of historic center of Mexico City, although there are pressures for areas to convert to commercial use.