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Hoy No Circula (literally in Spanish: "today [your car] does not circulate", known as No-drive days) is the name of an environmental program intended to improve the air quality of Mexico City.
Calle de República de Guatemala is a street located in the historic center of Mexico City. [1] It is named after the country of Guatemala, a name it received in 1921. [2] Museo Archivo de la Fotografía is located in this street. [3] [4]
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.
Monumento a la Revolución, a monument commemorating the Mexican Revolution located in Plaza de la República (Republic Square). Paseo de la Reforma, emblematic avenue of Mexico City. Alameda Central, public urban park in downtown Mexico City and oldest public park in the Americas. Palacio de Bellas Artes, Palace of Fine Arts, cultural center.
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built in early 1980s by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. [2] The line was inaugurated on 19 December 1981 and originally ran from Pantitlán (in Venustiano Carranza) to Consulado station (in the limits of Venustiano Carranza and Gustavo A. Madero), [3] with seven operative stations and a 9.154 kilometers (5.688 mi) long track. [4]
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 Xochimilco Light Rail (locally known as the Tren Ligero and known by the government as Tren ligero de la Ciudad de México) is a light rail line that serves the southern part of Mexico City. It connects to, but is not considered a part of the Mexico City Metro .
Chapultepec station during the first day of operations after the inauguration. The first section of Line 1 was opened on 4 September 1969 as part of Mexico City Metro's first construction stage, it was inaugurated by Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970, and Alfonso Corona del Rosal, Regent of the Federal District Department. [3]