Mexico City

Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides by volcanoes towering at 4,000 to 5,500 metres (13,000 to 18,000 feet) above sea-level.

Districts

The Distrito Federal is divided into 16 boroughs called delegaciones, which are further divided into colonias (neighborhoods).

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The municipality of Mexico City, abolished in 1928, was limited to the current delegaciones of Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Venustiano Carranza, and Benito Juárez. However, these four delegaciones combined are in reality slightly larger that the old municipality of Mexico City because they also include the former municipalities of Tacuba, Tacubaya, Mixcoac, and General Anaya.

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1928 - Cuauhtémoc - Miguel Hidalgo - Venustiano Carranza - Benito Juárez - Tacuba - Tacubaya - Mixcoac - General Anaya

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Colonias

Because of the city?s fragmentation each of the colonias has a very distinct character, some of the neighborhoods are former small towns close to the city, like San Angel and Coyoacan, while other were specifically designed as urban development, for example Condesa and Polanco.

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San Angel - Coyoacan - Condesa

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