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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 Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, officially called Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco (PELT), [1] is a national park in the State of Mexico, and a federal government project. It is part of the larger metropolitan area in the Valley of Mexico , around Mexico City .
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]
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
The Tepexpan Man is a Pre-Columbian-era skeleton, discovered by archaeologist Helmut de Terra in February 1947, on the shores of the former Lake Texcoco in central Mexico. [1] The skeleton was found near mammoth remains and thought to be at least 10,000 years old. [ 2 ]