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The name "Chapultepec" means "at the grasshopper hill" in Nahuatl and refers to a large rock formation that is the center of the park's first section. Originally, this area was a forest outside of Tenochtitlan , once considered sacred in pre-Columbian times , but today it is entirely within the city (mostly in the borough of Miguel Hidalgo ...
Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a height of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft) above sea level. [1]
A fried chapulín Fried egg with Oaxacan chorizo and chapulines. In 2007, several American media reported concerns over lead contamination in products imported from Zimatlán, a municipality in Oaxaca, including chapulines.
Chapultepec is a station on the Mexico City Metro. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in the center of Mexico City . [ 2 ] In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 57,873 passengers per day, making it the 14th busiest station in the network. [ 4 ]
The Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace informally known as the Chapultepec Conference, was held in Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City on February 21 to March 8, 1945, between the United States and 19 Latin American countries. [1]
Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words that represent (i) animals, (ii) plants, fruit and vegetables, (iii) foods and beverages, and (iv) domestic appliances.
Image based on the medal given to the cadets Monument to the Niños Héroes in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.. The Niños Héroes (Boy Heroes, or Heroic Cadets) were six Mexican military cadets who were killed in the defence of Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847.
The Obelisco a los Niños Héroes is a monument installed in Chapultepec, Mexico City. The cenotaph was created in 1881 by architect Ramón Rodríguez Arangoity, one of the cadets captured in the Battle of Chapultepec. [1] [2] The marble cenotaph was a typical nineteenth-century monument.