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Calle De República De Argentina
Calle de República de Argentina is a street located in the historic center of Mexico City. It is named after the country of Argentina, a name it received in 1921. It runs from south to north from the archaeological zone of Templo Mayor, Plaza Manuel Gamio and Calle de República de Guatemala to Eje 1 Norte, where it takes the name of Jesús Carranza to the north. Its origin dates back to the first trace of Mexico City made by Alonso García Bravo in 1522 from the path of Calzada de Tepeyacac and had the name of Calle del Relox or Del Reloj for several centuries, due to a mechanical clock installed in the Real Audiencia building in the 16th century. References {{Historic buildings of Mexico City Centro Historic center of Mexico City Streets in Mexico City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagunilla Metro Station
Lagunilla is a station along Line B of the Mexico City Metro located north of the center of Mexico City, near the famous market with the same name (next to and used interchangeably with Tepito). The logo for the station is a wild duck. The station was opened on 15 December 1999. Image:MercadoLagunillaBldgDF.JPG, A small portion of the La Lagunilla market for which the station is named Ridership References Lagunilla Lagunilla is a municipality in the Province of Salamanca, Spain. It is from the provincial capital of Salamanca. It is bordered by Aldeacipreste, Colmenar de Montemayor, Valdelageve, Sotoserrano and Zarza de Granadilla. In 2005 it counted ... Railway stations opened in 1999 1999 establishments in Mexico Mexico City Metro stations in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City {{Mexico-metro-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . 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 sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Center Of Mexico City
The historic center of Mexico City ( es, 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 Zócalo or main plaza and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central. The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people. This section of the capital lies in the municipal borough of Cuauhtémoc, has just over nine square km and occupies 668 blocks. It contains 9,000 buildings, 1,550 of which have been declared of historical importance. Most of these historic buildings were constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries. It is divided into two zones for preservation purposes. Zone A encompasses the pre-Hispanic city and its expansion from the Viceroy period until Independence. Zone B covers the areas all other constructions to the end of the 19th century that are considered indispens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Templo Mayor
The (Spanish: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. The temple was called ' in the Nahuatl language. It was dedicated simultaneously to Huitzilopochtli, god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture, each of which had a shrine at the top of the pyramid with separate staircases. The central spire was devoted to Quetzalcoatl in his form as the wind god, Ehecatl. The Great Temple devoted to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, measuring approximately at its base, dominated the Sacred Precinct. Construction of the first temple began sometime after 1325, and it was rebuilt six times. The temple was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521, and the Mexico City cathedral was built in its place. The Zócalo, or main plaza of Mexico City today, was developed to the southwest of Templo Mayor, which is located in the block between Semi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaza Manuel Gamio
The Plaza Manuel Gamio is a plaza located in historic center of Mexico City, Mexico. It is located between the archaeological zone of the Templo Mayor and the tabernacle of the Metropolitan Cathedral. It was named in honor of Manuel Gamio, the archaeologist of the excavations of the ceremonial precinct of the Mexica, and includes the space between the streets of Moneda (to the south) and a fragment of the República de Guatemala to the north. Due to its proximity to the Templo Mayor, it is a frequent site of important finds from ancient Tenochtitlan and due to its proximity to the site where the first urban layout of the current Mexican capital was made in 1522, it is close to places where the first headquarters of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico was established, the first headquarters of the Mexican Mint, the archbishop's house and the aforementioned cathedral and the first Ethnographic Museum of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calle De República De Guatemala
Calle de República de Guatemala is a street located in the historic center of Mexico City. It is named after the country of Guatemala, a name it received in 1921. Museo Archivo de la Fotografía The Museo Archivo de la Fotografía (MAF; Museum of the Photographic Archive) is a museum in the Historic center of Mexico City located in "La Casa de las Ajaracas", built at the end of the 16th century, at Guatemala street #34. The museum is ded ... is located in this street. References {{Historic buildings of Mexico City Centro Historic center of Mexico City Streets in Mexico City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonso García Bravo
Alonso is a Spanish name of Germanic origin that is a Castilian variant of ''Adalfuns''. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 36.6% of all known bearers of the surname ''Alonso'' were residents of Spain (frequency 1:222), 26.1% of Mexico (1:832), 8.3% of Cuba (1:242), 7.0% of Argentina (1:1,061), 4.8% of Brazil (1:7,502), 4.5% of the United States (1:14,083), 2.5% of Colombia (1:3,318), 1.7% of Paraguay (1:736), 1.3% of France (1:9,082) and 1.1% of Uruguay (1:549). In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:222) in the following regions: * 1. Asturias (1:69) * 2. Castile and León (1:73) * 3. Cantabria (1:96) * 4. Galicia (1:125) * 5. Basque Country (1:145) * 6. La Rioja (1:149) * 7. Canary Islands (1:159) * 8. Community of Madrid (1:171) First name * Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Spanish explorer of the 16th century * Alonso Fernández Álvarez (born 1982), Costa Rican male model * Alonso López (other), several people * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calzada De Los Misterios
Calzada or La Calzada may refer to: Places Spain * La Calzada de Béjar, a municipality in the province of Salamanca *Calzada de Calatrava, a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real * Calzada de Don Diego, a municipality in the province of Salamanca * Calzada de Oropesa, a municipality in the province of Toledo * Calzada de Valdunciel, a municipality in the province of Salamanca * Calzada de los Molinos, a municipality in the province of Palencia *Calzada del Coto, a municipality in the province of León *Cabezabellosa de la Calzada, a municipality in the province of Salamanca * Puebla de la Calzada, a municipality in the province of Badajoz *Rabé de las Calzadas, a municipality in the province of Burgos * Santo Domingo de la Calzada, a municipality in La Rioja * Torrejón de la Calzada, a municipality in the Community of Madrid *Valdelacalzada, a municipality in the province of Badajoz Latin America * Calzada (mountain), a mountain in the Bolivian Andes *Calzada, Maunabo, Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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