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| Mexico City Ciudad de Mxc3xa9xicoxc2xa0xc2xa0(Spanish)Capital and megacityFrom top and left: Angel of Independence, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, Paseo de la Reforma, Torre Latinoamericana, National Palace, Parque La Mexicana in Santa Fe, Monumento a la Revolucixc3xb3n, Chapultepec Castle, Palacio de Bellas Artes and Paseo de la Reforma Coat of armsGovernment logoNickname(s):xc2xa0CDMXMotto(s):xc2xa0La Ciudad de los Palacios(The City of Palaces)Mexico City within MexicoMexico CityLocation within MexicoShow map of MexicoMexico CityMexico City (North America)Show map of North AmericaCoordinates: 19xc2xb026xe2x80xb2N 99xc2xb08xe2x80xb2Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf19.433xc2xb0N 99.133xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 19.433; -99.133Coordinates: 19xc2xb026xe2x80xb2N 99xc2xb08xe2x80xb2Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf19.433xc2xb0N 99.133xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 19.433; -99.133CountryMexicoFounded 13xc2xa0March 1325; 696 years agoxc2xa0(1325-03-13):Mexico-Tenochtitlan[1] 13xc2xa0August 1521; 499 years agoxc2xa0(1521-08-13):Ciudad de Mxc3xa9xico[2] 18xc2xa0November 1824; 196 years agoxc2xa0(1824-11-18):Distrito Federal[3] 29xc2xa0January 2016; 5 years agoxc2xa0(2016-01-29):Ciudad de Mxc3xa9xico[4] Founded by Tenoch (as Mexico-Tenochtitlan) Hernxc3xa1n Cortxc3xa9s (as Mexico City) Governmentxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Mayor Claudia Sheinbaumxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Senators[5] Martxc3xad Batres Citlalli Hernxc3xa1ndez Emilio xc3x81lvarez Icazaxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Deputies[6] Federal Deputies Armando Bxc3xa1ez Pinal Marco Antonio Garcxc3xada Cuauhtxc3xa9moc Gutixc3xa9rrez Sebastixc3xa1n Lerdo de Tejada Roberto Rebollo Leticia Robles Claudia Ruiz Massieu Agustxc3xadn Castilla Gabriela Cuevas Cxc3xa9sar Gonzxc3xa1lez Paz Gutixc3xa9rrez Valdemar Gutixc3xa9rrez Kenia Lxc3xb3pez Cxc3xa9sar Nava Rosi Orozco Silvia Pxc3xa9rez Ceballos Ezequiel Rxc3xa9tiz Esthela Damixc3xa1n Luis Felipe Eguxc3xada Alejandro Encinas Agustxc3xadn Guerrero Francisco Hernxc3xa1ndez Hxc3xa9ctor Hernxc3xa1ndez Teresa Inchxc3xa1ustegui Ramxc3xb3n Jimxc3xa9nez Vidal Llerenas Avelino Mxc3xa9ndez Eduardo Mendoza Nazario Norberto Leticia Quezada Rigoberto Salgado Arturo Santana Emilio Serrano Mauricio Toledo Enoxc3xa9 Uranga Balfre Vargas Araceli Vxc3xa1zquez Jesxc3xbas ZambranoRosario BrindisPablo EscuderoClara Salinas Sada Jaime Cxc3xa1rdenas Itzel Castillo Mario di Costanzo Gerardo Fernxc3xa1ndez Ifigenia Martxc3xadnez Porfirio Muxc3xb1oz LedoVxc3xadctor Hugo Cxc3xadrigoLaura Pixc3xb1a OlmedoGerardo Del MazoMarxc3xada Quixc3xb1ones Area[7][b]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Total1,485xc2xa0km2 (573xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)xc2xa0Ranked 32ndElevation2,240xc2xa0m (7,350xc2xa0ft)Highestxc2xa0elevation[8] (Ajusco)3,930xc2xa0m (12,890xc2xa0ft)Populationxc2xa0(2020)[9]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Total9,209,944xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Rank2ndxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Density6,200/km2 (16,000/sqxc2xa0mi)xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Densityxc2xa0rank1stxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Metro area21,804,515DemonymsCapitalino (a)Mexiquexc3xb1o (a) (archaic)Chilango (a) (colloquial)Time zoneUTCxe2x88x9206:00 (CST)xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Summer (DST)UTCxe2x88x9205:00 (CDT)Postal code00xe2x80x9316Area code55/56ISO 3166 codeMX-CMXPatron SaintPhilip of Jesus (Spanish: San Felipe de Jesxc3xbas)HDI0.897 Very High[10]GDP (Nominal)$266xc2xa0billion[11]Websitewww.cdmx.gob.mx (in Spanish) UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameHistoric center of Mexico City, Xochimilco and Central University City Campus of the UNAMTypeCulturalCriteriai, ii, iii, iv, vDesignated1987, 2007 (11th, 31st sessions)Referencexc2xa0no.412, 1250State PartyMexicoRegionLatin America and the Caribbean ^ b. | WIKI |
| Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de Mxc3xa9xico, locallyxc2xa0[sjuxcbx88xc3xb0a(xc3xb0) xc3xb0e xcbx88mexiko] (listen);[12] abbreviated as CDMX; Nahuatl languages: xc4x80ltepxc4x93tl Mxc4x93xihco) is the capital and largest city of Mexico and the most populous city in North America. | WIKI |
| The city has 16 subdivisions known as boroughs or demarcaciones territoriales. | WIKI |
| [17] According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the second-largest metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere (behind Sxc3xa3o Paulo, Brazil), the eleventh-largest agglomeration (2017), and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. | WIKI |
| [19] The city was responsible for generating 15.8% of Mexico's GDP, and the metropolitan area accounted for about 22% of the country's GDP. | WIKI |
| The city was originally built on an island of Lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325 as Tenochtitlan, which was almost completely destroyed in the 1521 Siege of Tenochtitlan and subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards. | WIKI |
| [24] The city has several progressive policies, such as abortion on demand, a limited form of euthanasia, no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. | WIKI |
| The city was the place of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. | WIKI |
| The old Mexica city that is now simply referred to as Tenochtitlan was built on an island in the center of the inland lake system of the Valley of Mexico, which it shared with a smaller city-state called Tlatelolco. | WIKI |
| [36] Cortxc3xa9s and his men marched along the causeway leading into the city from Iztapalapa, and the city's ruler, Moctezuma II, greeted the Spaniards; they exchanged gifts, but the camaraderie did not last long. | WIKI |
| For three months, the city suffered from the lack of food and water as well as the spread of smallpox brought by the Europeans. | WIKI |
| [35] Cortxc3xa9s and his allies landed their forces in the south of the island and slowly fought their way through the city. | WIKI |
| By that time, the city had again become a city-state, having power that extended far beyond its borders. | WIKI |
| Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral's (1571xe2x80x931813) 18th century painting. | WIKI |
| The city had been the capital of the Aztec empire and in the colonial era, Mexico City became the capital of New Spain. | WIKI |
| The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, the seat of the Archbishopric of New Spain, was constructed on another side of the Zxc3xb3calo, as was the archbishop's palace, and across from it the building housing the city council or ayuntamiento of the city. | WIKI |
| The rebuilding of the city after the siege of Tenochtitlan was accomplished by the abundant indigenous labor in the surrounding area. | WIKI |
| Franciscan friar Toribio de Benavente Motolinia, one of the Twelve Apostles of Mexico who arrived in New Spain in 1524, described the rebuilding of the city as one of the afflictions or plagues of the early period: | WIKI |
| Preconquest Tenochtitlan was built in the center of the inland lake system, with the city reachable by canoe and by wide causeways to the mainland. | WIKI |
| The city grew as the population did, coming up against the lake's waters. | WIKI |
| Floods were not only an inconvenience but also a health hazard, since during flood periods human waste polluted the city's streets. | WIKI |
| Although the Spanish crown tried to completely regulate all commerce in the city, it had only partial success. | WIKI |
| Most of these families proved their worth by making fortunes in New Spain outside of the city itself, then spending the revenues in the capital, building churches, supporting charities and building extravagant palatial homes. | WIKI |
| [55] The invasion culminated with the storming of Chapultepec Castle in the city itself. | WIKI |
| The Mexican forces fell back from Chapultepec and retreated within the city. | WIKI |
| The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in what is now the far north of the city. | WIKI |
| Events such as the Mexicanxe2x80x93American War, the French Intervention and the Reform War left the city relatively untouched and it continued to grow, especially during the rule of President Porfirio Dxc3xadaz. | WIKI |
| During this time the city developed a modern infrastructure, such as roads, schools, transportation systems and communication systems. | WIKI |
| However the regime concentrated resources and wealth into the city while the rest of the country languished in poverty. | WIKI |
| Dxc3xadaz's goal was to create a city which could rival the great European cities. | WIKI |
| During this era of Porfirian rule, the city underwent an extensive modernization. | WIKI |
| Diaz's plans called for the entire city to eventually be modernized or rebuilt in the Porfirian/French style of the Colonia Roma; but the Mexican Revolution began soon afterward and the plans never came to fruition, with many projects being left half-completed. | WIKI |
| The most significant episode of this period for the city was the February 1913 la Decena Trxc3xa1gica ("The Ten Tragic Days"), when forces counter to the elected government of Francisco I. Madero staged a successful coup. | WIKI |
| The center of the city was subjected to artillery attacks from the army stronghold of the ciudadela or citadel, with significant civilian casualties and the undermining of confidence in the Madero government. | WIKI |
| [58] Huerta's ouster in July 1914 saw the entry of the armies of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, but the city did not experience violence. | WIKI |
| The history of the rest of the 20th century to the present focuses on the phenomenal growth of the city and its environmental and political consequences. | WIKI |
| [59] The city began to grow rapidly westward in the early part of the 20th century[42] and then began to grow upwards in the 1950s, with the Torre Latinoamericana becoming the city's first skyscraper. | WIKI |
| [35] Explosive growth in the population of the city started in the 1960s, with the population overflowing the boundaries of the Federal District into the neighboring State of Mexico, especially to the north, northwest, and northeast. | WIKI |
| Between 1960 and 1980 the city's population more than doubled to nearly 9xc2xa0million. | WIKI |
| Villagers from the countryside who continued to pour into the city to escape poverty only compounded the city's problems. | WIKI |
| With no housing available, they took over lands surrounding the city, creating huge shantytowns that extended for many miles. | WIKI |
| [67] This valley has no natural drainage outlet for the waters that flow from the mountainsides, making the city vulnerable to flooding. | WIKI |
| Although none of the lake waters remain, the city rests on the lake bed's heavily saturated clay. | WIKI |
| Since the beginning of the 20th century the city has sunk as much as nine meters (30 feet) in some areas. | WIKI |
| [67][68][69] The entire lake bed is now paved over and most of the city's remaining forested areas lie in the southern boroughs of Milpa Alta, Tlalpan and Xochimilco. | WIKI |
| Snow falls in the city very rarely, although somewhat more often in nearby mountain tops. | WIKI |
| [74] Since 1908, snow has only fallen three times, snow on 14 February 1920;[75] snow flurries on 14 March 1940;[76] and on 12 January 1967, when 8 centimeters (3xc2xa0in) of snow fell on the city, the most on record. | WIKI |
| By the 1990s Mexico City had become infamous as one of the world's most polluted cities; however, the city has become a model for drastically lowering pollution levels. | WIKI |
| This area was then separated from the State of Mexico, forcing that state's government to move from the Palace of the Inquisition (now Museum of Mexican Medicine) in the city to Texcoco. | WIKI |
| In 1854 president Antonio Lxc3xb3pez de Santa Anna enlarged the area of Mexico City almost eightfold from the original 220 to 1,700xc2xa0km2 (80 to 660xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi), annexing the rural and mountainous areas to secure the strategic mountain passes to the south and southwest to protect the city in event of a foreign invasion. | WIKI |
| The city has a Statute of Government, and as of its ratification on 31 January 2017, a constitution,[92][93] similar to the states of the Union. | WIKI |
| Nonetheless, it is the Congress of the Union that sets the ceiling to internal and external public debt issued by the city government. | WIKI |
| According to the 44th article of the Mexican Constitution, if the powers of the Union move to another city, Mexico City would become a new state, the "State of the Valley of Mexico", with the new limits set by the Congress of the Union. | WIKI |
| [96] In December 2009, the then Federal District became the first city in Latin America and one of very few in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. | WIKI |
| After the political reforms on 2016, the city is divided for administrative purposes into 16 boroughs (demarcaciones territoriales, colloquially alcadias), formerly called delegaciones. | WIKI |
| The Historic Center, in the borough of Cuauhtxc3xa9moc, is the oldest part of the city (along with some other, formerly separate colonial towns such as Coyoacxc3xa1n and San xc3x81ngel), some of the buildings dating back to the 16th century. | WIKI |
| West of the Historic Center (Centro Histxc3xb3rico) along Paseo de la Reforma are many of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods such as Polanco, Lomas de Chapultepec, Bosques de las Lomas, Santa Fe, and (in the State of Mexico) Interlomas, which are also the city's most important areas of class A office space, corporate headquarters, skyscrapers, and shopping malls. | WIKI |
| The south of the city is home to some other high-income neighborhoods such as Colonia del Valle and Jardines del Pedregal and the formerly separate colonial towns of Coyoacxc3xa1n, San xc3x81ngel, and San Jerxc3xb3nimo. | WIKI |
| Some of the policies enacted included the installation of 11,000 security cameras around the city and a very large expansion of the police force. | WIKI |
| He sees punishment "related to the growing politicization of security and crime issues and the resulting criminalization of the people living at the margins of urban society, in particular those who work in the city's informal economy. | WIKI |
| [105] A 2015 city government report found that two of three women over the age of 15 in the capital suffered some form of violence. | WIKI |
| The IMSS and other public health institutions, including the ISSSTE (Public Sector Employees' Social Security Institute) and the National Health Ministry (SSA) maintain large specialty facilities in the city. | WIKI |
| [108] According to a study conducted by PwC, Mexico City had a GDP of $390xc2xa0billion, ranking it as the eighth richest city in the world and the richest in Latin America. | WIKI |
| The top twelve percent of GDP per capita holders in the city had a mean disposable income of US$98,517 in 2007. | WIKI |
| The high spending power of Mexico City inhabitants makes the city attractive for companies offering prestige and luxury goods. | WIKI |
| The economic reforms of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari had a tremendous effect on the city, as a number of businesses, including banks and airlines, were privatized. | WIKI |
| By contrast, corporate office buildings set their base in the city. | WIKI |
| Santa Fe is one of the centers of greatest economic activity in the city. | WIKI |
| According to the 1921 census, 54.78% of the city's population was considered Mestizo (Indigenous mixed with European), 22.79% considered European, and 18.74% considered Indigenous. | WIKI |
| The growth of the city has extended beyond the limits of the city to 59 municipalities of the State of Mexico and 1 in the state of Hidalgo. | WIKI |
| Representing around 18.74% of the city's population, indigenous peoples from different areas of Mexico have migrated to the capital in search of better economic opportunities. | WIKI |
| [124] Historically since the era of New Spain, many Filipinos settled in the city and have become integrated in Mexican society. | WIKI |
| Estimates are as high as 700,000 U.S. Americans living in Mexico City, while in 1999 the U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs estimated over 440,000 Americans lived in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. | WIKI |
| [127] Many other religions and philosophies are also practiced in the city: many different types of Protestant groups, different types of Jewish communities, Buddhist, Islamic and other spiritual and philosophical groups. | WIKI |
| [129] There are two Roman Catholic cathedrals in the city, the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and the Iztapalapa Cathedral, and three former Catholic churches who are now the cathedrals of other rites, the San Josxc3xa9 de Gracia Cathedral (Anglican church), the Porta Coeli Cathedral (Melkite Greek Catholic church) and the Valvanera Cathedral (Maronite church). | WIKI |
| The Turibus runs through many of the most important tourist attractions in the city. | WIKI |
| In addition, according to the Secretariat of Tourism, the city has about 170 museumsxe2x80x94is among the top ten of cities in the world with highest number of museums[131][132]xe2x80x94over 100 art galleries, and some 30 concert halls, all of which maintain a constant cultural activity during the whole year. | WIKI |
| The Art Nouveau/Neoclassical Palacio de Bellas Artes is the prominent cultural center in the city | WIKI |
| Many of the works of muralists Josxc3xa9 Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera are displayed in numerous buildings in the city, most notably at the National Palace and the Palacio de Bellas Artes. | WIKI |
| Jack Kerouac, the noted American author, spent extended periods of time in the city, and wrote his masterpiece volume of poetry Mexico City Blues here. | WIKI |
| Another American author, William S. Burroughs, also lived in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of the city for some time. | WIKI |
| Another major addition to the city's museum scene is the Museum of Remembrance and Tolerance (Museo de la Memoria y Tolerancia), inaugurated in early 2011. | WIKI |
| The City Theatre built in 1918. | WIKI |
| There are also many smaller ensembles that enrich the city's musical scene, including the Carlos Chxc3xa1vez Youth Symphony, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the New World Orchestra (Orquesta del Nuevo Mundo), the National Polytechnical Symphony and the Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra (Orquesta de Cxc3xa1mara de Bellas Artes). | WIKI |
| The city is also a leading center of popular culture and music. | WIKI |
| The Cirque du Soleil has held several seasons at the Carpa Santa Fe, in the Santa Fe district in the western part of the city. | WIKI |
| UNAM's main campus, also in the southern part of the city, is home to the Centro Cultural Universitario (the University Culture Center) (CCU). | WIKI |
| The Josxc3xa9 Vasconcelos Library, a national library, is located on the grounds of the former Buenavista railroad station in the northern part of the city. | WIKI |
| Mexico City offers a variety of cuisines: restaurants specializing in the regional cuisines of Mexico's 31 states are available in the city, and the city also has several branches of internationally recognized restaurants. | WIKI |
| Mexico City Metro | WIKI |
| Main article: Mexico City Metro | WIKI |
| As of 2007[update], the approximately 28,000 peseros carried up to 60 percent of the city's passengers. | WIKI |
| [146][147][148] In August 2016, Mayor Mancera announced that new pesero vehicle and concessions would be eliminated completely unless they were ecologically friendly vehicles,[149] and in October 2011 the city's Secretary of Mobility Hxc3xa9ctor Serrano states that by the end of the current administration (2018) there would no longer by any peseros/microbuses circulating at all, and that new full-sized buses would take over the routes. | WIKI |
| In 2014, the city launched so-called "Bus Rapid Service", with mid-sized Mercedes-Benz Boxer buses carrying 75xe2x80x9385 passengers[151][152] painted purple-on-white, replacing 'peseros' on certain groups of routes. | WIKI |
| City agency Red de Transporte de Pasajeros (RTP), formerly M1,[157] operates various networks of large buses including regular, Ecobxc3xbas, Circuito Bicentenario, Atenea, Express, school and night routes. | WIKI |
| In 2016, the SVBUS express bus service was launched, with limited stops and utilizing the city's toll roads on the second-level of the Perifxc3xa9rico ring road and Supervxc3xada Poniente and connecting Toreo/Cuatro Caminos with Santa Fe, San Jerxc3xb3nimo Lxc3xaddice and Tepepan near Xochimilco in the southeast. | WIKI |
| Suburban buses also leave from the city's main intercity bus stations. | WIKI |
| The city's first bus rapid transit line, the Metrobxc3xbas, began operation in June 2005, along Avenida Insurgentes. | WIKI |
| More and more lines opened and as of mid-2017 there are 6 routes with a 7th planned along Paseo de la Reforma to connect Santa Fe with the city center and points north. | WIKI |
| [164] The Viaducto Miguel Alemxc3xa1n crosses the city eastxe2x80x93west from Observatorio to the airport. | WIKI |
| The local government continuously strives for a reduction of massive traffic congestion, and has increased incentives for making a bicycle-friendly city. | WIKI |
| [171][172] The city's initiative is inspired by forward thinking examples, such as Denmark's Copenhagenization. | WIKI |
| The city has four major bus stations (North, South, Observatorio, TAPO), which comprise one of the world's largest transportation agglomerations, with bus service to many cities across the country and international connections. | WIKI |
| There are some intercity buses that leave directly from the Mexico City International Airport. | WIKI |
| Mexico City is served by Mexico City International Airport (IATA Airport Code: MEX). | WIKI |
| Since 2007 the University City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| Other major higher-education institutions in the city include the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), the Instituto Tecnolxc3xb3gico Autxc3xb3nomo de Mxc3xa9xico (ITAM), the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (3 campuses), the Universidad Panamericana (UP), the Universidad La Salle, the Universidad del Valle de Mxc3xa9xico (UVM), the Universidad Anxc3xa1huac, Simxc3xb3n Bolxc3xadvar University (USB), the Alliant International University, the Universidad Iberoamericana, El Colegio de Mxc3xa9xico (Colmex), Escuela Libre de Derecho and the Centro de Investigacixc3xb3n y Docencia Econxc3xb3mica, (CIDE). | WIKI |
| In addition, the prestigious University of California maintains a campus known as "Casa de California" in the city. | WIKI |
| The whole funding is allocated by the government of Mexico City (in some specific cases, such as El Colegio de Mxc3xa9xico, funding comes from both the city's government and other public and private national and international entities). | WIKI |
| [citation needed] The city's public high school system is the Instituto de Educacixc3xb3n Media Superior de la Ciudad de Mxc3xa9xico (IEMS-DF). | WIKI |
| Among its many public and private schools (Kxe2x80x9313), the city offers multi-cultural, multi-lingual and international schools attended by Mexican and foreign students. | WIKI |
| The city's main source of fresh produce is the Central de Abasto. | WIKI |
| This in itself is a self-contained mini-city in Iztapalapa borough covering an area equivalent to several dozen city blocks. | WIKI |
| The wholesale market supplies most of the city's "mercados", supermarkets and restaurants, as well as people who come to buy the produce for themselves. | WIKI |
| A staple for consumers in the city is the omnipresent "mercado". | WIKI |
| Every major neighborhood in the city has its own borough-regulated market, often more than one. | WIKI |
| stationery) are housed; originally these were organized to accommodate vendors formerly selling on the street; or simply from improvised stalls on a city sidewalk. | WIKI |
| [178] In the center of the city informal street vendors are increasingly targeted by laws and prosecution. | WIKI |
| Large, modern chain supermarkets, hypermarkets and warehouse clubs including Soriana, Comercial Mexicana, Chedraui, Bodega Aurrerxc3xa1, Walmart and Costco, are located across the city. | WIKI |
| Thousands of C-stores or corner stores, such as Oxxo, 7-Eleven and Extra are located throughout the city. | WIKI |
| The Chapultepec was an important park during the Aztecs whose access had been limited to its nobility, was declared open to the public by a decree of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1530,[181][182] it is one of the world's largest city parks. | WIKI |
| Chapultepec, the city's most iconic public park, has history back to the Aztec emperors who used the area as a retreat. | WIKI |
| It is south of Polanco district, and houses the Chapultepec Zoo the main city's zoo, several ponds and seven museums, including the National Museum of Anthropology. | WIKI |
| Other iconic city parks include the Alameda Central historic center, a city park since colonial times and renovated in 2013; Parque Mxc3xa9xico and Parque Espaxc3xb1a in the hip Condesa district; Parque Hundido and Parque de los Venados in Colonia del Valle, and Parque Lincoln in Polanco. | WIKI |
| [185] There are many smaller parks throughout the city. | WIKI |
| Northwest of the city is a large ecological reserve, the Bosque de Aragxc3xb3n. | WIKI |
| There are numerous seasonal fairs present in the city. | WIKI |
| Mexico City is the first Latin American city to host the Olympic Games, having held the Summer Olympics in 1968, winning bids against Buenos Aires, Lyon and Detroit. | WIKI |
| The city hosted the 1955 and 1975 Pan American Games, the last after Santiago and Sxc3xa3o Paulo withdrew. | WIKI |
| The main venues in the city are Arena Mxc3xa9xico and Arena Coliseo. | WIKI |
| Baseball is another sport played professionally in the city. | WIKI |
| In 2005, Mexico City became the first city to host an NFL regular season game outside of the United States, at the Azteca Stadium. | WIKI |
| [193] The city has also hosted several NBA pre-season games and has hosted international basketball's FIBA Americas Championship, along with north-of-the-border Major League Baseball exhibition games at Foro Sol. | WIKI |
| Courses throughout the city are available as private as well as public venues. | WIKI |
| Most international ad firms have offices in the city, including Grey, JWT, Leo Burnett, Euro RSCG, BBDO, Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, and McCann Erickson. | WIKI |
| There are 60 radio stations operating in the city and many local community radio transmission networks. | WIKI |
| Mexico City was traditionally known as La Ciudad de los Palacios ("the City of the Palaces"), a nickname attributed to Baron Alexander von Humboldt when visiting the city in the 19th century, who, sending a letter back to Europe, said Mexico City could rival any major city in Europe. | WIKI |
| During all the colony the city's motto was "Muy Noble e Insigne, Muy Leal e Imperial" (Very Noble and Distinguished, Very Loyal and Imperial). | WIKI |
| This motto was quickly adopted as a city nickname but has faded since the new motto, Capital en Movimiento ("Capital in Movement"), was adopted by the administration headed by Marcelo Ebrard, though the latter is not treated as often as a nickname in media. | WIKI |
| Since 2013, to refer to the City particularly in relation to government campaigns, the abbreviation CDMX has been used (from Ciudad de Mxc3xa9xico), prior to this but recently, the abbreviation was "the DF" (from Distrito Federal de Mxc3xa9xico). | WIKI |
| The city is colloquially known as Chilangolandia after the locals' nickname chilangos. | WIKI |
| They are formally called capitalinos (in reference to the city being the capital of the country), but "[p]erhaps because capitalino is the more polite, specific, and correct word, it is almost never utilized". | WIKI |
| Testimonies from the time of the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, account for the existence of the great lake dotted with a multitude of canoes and the island city, full of oratories like towers and fortresses and all gleaming white. | UNESCO |
| They built the capital of New Spain, Mexico City, the xe2x80x9ccity of palacesxe2x80x9d, on the ruins of the prehispanic city, following a European model which was slightly changed by the intervention of indigenous artisans and workers, and influenced by the canals and rivers that had structured the Pre-Hispanic city. | UNESCO |
| The monuments, groups of buildings or sites located at the heart of the contemporary urban agglomeration amply illustrate the origins and growth of this city that has dominated the region for many centuries. | UNESCO |
| The lacustrine landscape of Xochimilco, located 28 km south of the city, constitutes the only reminder of traditional Pre-Hispanic land-use in the lagoons of the Mexico City basin. | UNESCO |
| The latest archaeological finds at the Templo Mayor (the Aztec Main Temple) in the Historic Centre of Mexico City contribute further to the understanding of the pre-Hispanic city. | UNESCO |
| For the Historic Centre of Mexico City the responsibility on the federal level falls to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), a responsibility shared with the city and district governments. | UNESCO |
| In the case of Xochimilco, the city government of Mexico City published a decree on 11 December 2012, in which xe2x80x9cThe Authority in the zone of Natural and Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Xochimilco, Tlahuac and Milpa Altaxe2x80x9d was created. | UNESCO |