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Boroughs (Spanish: demarcaciones territoriales) are the subdivisions of Mexico City, the capital city and a federative entity of Mexico.Currently there are 16 boroughs in Mexico City and keep the same territory and name as the former [when?] delegaciones while expanding their local government powers. [1]
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.
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.
The Mexico City megalopolis, also known as the Megalopolis of Central Mexico (Spanish: Corona regional del centro de México), is a megalopolis containing Greater Mexico City and surrounding metropolitan areas.
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]
The borough is named after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who began the Mexican War of Independence. [3] The borough was created by fusing various former municipalities such as Tacuba, Tacubaya and the Chapultepec Park area along with the neighborhoods such as Polanco, Lomas de Chapultepec, Bosques de las Lomas, Popotla, Las Pensil, La Argentina ...
Colonia Cuauhtémoc is a colonia (official neighborhood) in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of central Mexico City.It is located just north of Paseo de la Reforma, west of the historic center of Mexico City.
In Mexico, some municipalities and Mexico City are divided into “boroughs” for administrative purposes. Boroughs are known as delegaciones, or in the case of Mexico City, demarcaciones territoriales.