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Cerro Del Chiquihuite
Cerro del Chiquihuite (Chiquihuite Hill) is a hill located in the north of Mexico City, in the borough of Gustavo A. Madero and bordering the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz in the State of Mexico. The hill has a height of above sea level and forms part of the Sierra de Guadalupe mountain range. It was used as a filming location for the 1993 Mexican film ''Lolo''. In 2021, a landslide occurred in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood located in Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico. Geology The Cerro del Chiquihuite is a volcanic exogenic dome made of andesitic rock deposited in layers of varying thickness that show signs of extreme weathering. In the past, Chiquihuite had springs of water scattered over its surface, but with the passing of years, these springs have diminished in size. Historically the mountain has housed several springs, but most of these have dried up. For instance, in the borough of Lázaro Cárdenas, only the largest of these, known as "El Pocito", still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEIMT-TDT
XEIMT-TDT, known as Canal 22, is a television station located in Mexico City. Broadcasting on channel 22, XEIMT is owned by Televisión Metropolitana, S.A. de C.V., and operated by the Secretariat of Culture. It is one of Mexico's principal public television stations, with a format emphasizing cultural programming. Canal 22 is carried on all Mexican cable systems, on 25 SPR transmitters outside Mexico City, and as an international feed on some cable systems and DirecTV Stream in the United States. History Channel 22, Mexico City's first UHF station, signed on April 15, 1982, as XHTRM-TV, the principal station of Televisión de la República Mexicana (TRM). It was the first new television station in Mexico City since 1968, when channels 8 ( XHTM, operated by Televisión Independiente de México) and 13 (XHDF-TV, which was nationalized in 1972) went on the air. In 1983, TRM was absorbed into a new state broadcaster, the Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión. In 1985, Instituto M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilango (magazine)
''Chilango'' is a monthly entertainment Mexican magazine. It was established by Grupo Expansión in November 2003 in Mexico City. It has won the National Journalism Prize of Mexico twice. About the term ''Chilango'' {{main, Chilango In the early 21st century, ''Chilango'' became by an accepted demonym for people from Mexico City. The self-acceptance of the term lead to the publication of the magazine as a way to subvert prejudices of people from the inner states of Mexico had about ''chilangos'', originally created and intended by them as an offensive name. The magazine Sections of the magazine include: DFnitivo Word play with the Spanish pronuntiation of DF, the Mexican Federal District or ''Distrito Federal''. A ''how-to'' style section intended as a parody of weird things that happen in the city, such as the unfinished (called surreal) Distribuidor Vial freeway over Río Becerra or the bottles filled with water to keep away dogs and other animals from invading gardens. Most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cablebús Tlalpexco
The Sistema de Transporte Público Cablebús, simply branded as Cablebús, is an aerial lift transport system that runs in the Gustavo A. Madero and Iztapalapa areas of Mexico City. It is operated by Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos, the agency responsible for the operation of all trolleybus and light rail services in Mexico City. Line 1 was officially inaugurated on 11 July 2021, going from the Indios Verdes station of the STC Metro to the northern neighborhoods of Gustavo A. Madero. Line 2 runs from the Constitución de 1917 to the Santa Marta STC Metro stations in the southeast of the city. History Line 1's construction started in September 2019 with an investment of 3 billion Mexican pesos. Doppelmayr México and Grupo Indi built Line 1; Leitner Ropeways built Line 2. On 4 March 2021, Line 1's Campos Revolución and Tlalpexco stations were opened for operational trials, and the rest of the line was officially inaugurated on 11 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naucalpan
Naucalpan, officially Naucalpan de Juárez, is one of 125 municipalities located just northwest of Mexico City in the adjoining State of Mexico. The municipal seat is the city of Naucalpan de Juárez, which extends into the neighboring municipality of Huixquilucan. The name Naucalpan comes from Nahuatl and means "place of the four neighborhoods" or "four houses." Juárez was added to the official name in 1874 in honor of Benito Juárez. The history of the area begins with the Tlatilica who settled on the edges of the Hondo River between 1700 and 600 B.C.E., but it was the Mexica who gave it its current name when they dominated it from the 15th century until the Spanish conquest of the Mexica Empire. Naucalpan claims to be the area where Hernán Cortés rested on the " Noche Triste" as they fled Tenochtitlan in 1520, but this is disputed. It is the home of the Virgin of Los Remedios, a small image of the Virgin Mary which is strongly associated with the Conquest and is said to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Radio Centro
Grupo Radio Centro is a Mexico City-based owner and operator of radio stations. It owns 30 radio stations in Mexico and the United States, including 8 radio stations in Mexico City. History Radio Centro's origins date to 1946, when Francisco Aguirre Jiménez formed the Cadena Radio Continental to operate XEQR-AM 1030 and new station XERC-AM 790 in Mexico City. Organización Radio Centro was formed in 1952, and the current company was founded in 1971. In 1965, it founded OIR (Organización Impulsora de la Radio), which syndicates Radio Centro's formats to stations across Mexico. Its non-Mexico City business extended further in the 1980s, when Radio Centro began selling its formats outside the United States (in 1983) and created Cadena Radio Centro (in 1986) to manage this portion of its operations. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, it had expanded to five AM stations and three new FM outlets. Radio Centro was the second media company to place its FM towers on Cerro del Chiquihuite, to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHEXA-FM
XHEXA-FM is a Spanish & English Top 40 (CHR) radio station that serves Mexico City and states surrounding the federal district. Broadcasting on 104.9 MHz, XHEXA-FM is owned by MVS Radio and is the flagship station of the Exa FM format. History XHBST-FM signed on in 1974, owned by the same Stereorey consortium that brought FM to major Mexican cities on stations such as XHV-FM 102.5 Mexico City and XHSRO-FM in Monterrey. It carried the "Stereo Best" format, which was very similar. Not long after, it changed formats completely to "FM Globo", a name it would use with varying formats including romantic music, Spanish pop and contemporary music. The station changed its callsign to XHMRD-FM on October 8, 1991, and on January 1, 2000, changed its name to "Exa FM", with a Top 40 CHR format, its name alluding to the format of airing blocks of six consecutive songs. Its callsign was later changed to XHEXA-FM to reflect its new name. The callsign had been in use for a brief time on an MVS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHMVS-FM
XHMVS-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Broadcasting on 102.5 FM from a tower on Cerro del Chiquihuite, XHMVS-FM is owned by MVS Comunicaciones and is a news-talk station under the name MVS Noticias. History In 1964, a concession was awarded to Ruben Marin y Kall for a new radio station on 102.5 FM in Mexico City, under the callsign XHV-FM. The station took to the air in 1967, and the next year it was sold to Joaquín Vargas Gómez, founder of MVS, who increased its power from 1 to 54 kW. During this time, the station was an English-language music outlet under the name Stereorey, a name still evident in the name of the concessionaire for almost all of MVS's owned-and-operated radio stations in Mexico. The Stereorey format was available nationwide on a network of stations mostly owned by MVS. On October 8, 1991, this station, the flagship of the Stereorey network, was renamed XHMVS-FM and its power increased to 80 kW, but the station's first format change since the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHMM-FM
XHMM-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Broadcasting on 100.1 MHz, XHMM-FM is owned by NRM Comunicaciones and is known as "Stereo Cien". History XHMM signed on in the early 1970s as "Radio Maranatha" after receiving its concession on June 8, 1965. In 1977, the station was acquired by SOMER (Sociedad Mexicana de la Radio), which on July 17 of that year relaunched it as "Stereo Cien" airing contemporary music in English as well as talk programs. Since its inception, the station's logo has featured the image of a dolphin, and a dolphin cry is used as an on-air ID. In 1995, the station was merged into NRM Comunicaciones. XHMM carries adult contemporary music from the 1980s to the present and the "Enfoque" newscasts on weekdays. On June 7, 2021, sister station XEOY-AM XEOY-AM is an AM radio station in Mexico City. It is a Class A clear-channel station broadcasting on 1000 kHz. XEOY carries newscasts and contemporary music in English from the 1980s to the present day. KNWN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHDL-FM
XHDL-FM is a radio station on 98.5 FM in Mexico City. XHDL is owned by ''El Heraldo de México'' and operates as a news/talk station known as El Heraldo Radio. History 98.5 FM began as XELA-FM in 1962, owned by Radio Metropolitana, S.A., the concessionaire of XELA-AM 830. Until 1984, it was an FM simulcast of 830 AM; when it broke away, it became "Stereo Classics", English-language music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In 1989, the format was changed to more contemporary music in English as "Dial FM", and the callsign was changed to XHDL-FM to reference the new format. Radioactivo era On July 20, 1992, XHDL became "Radioactivo 98.5", with a rock and hip hop format. Its first slogan, "Radioactivity's in the air", was quickly eclipsed by its second: "Fuck everyone else". Various international artists, such as Metallica, Rammstein, The Mars Volta, Fabolous, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, visited the station. From 1992 to 2000, MVS Radio, the joint venture between Frecuencia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEDA-FM
XEDA (branded as Imagen Radio) is a Spanish-language talk radio station in Mexico City owned by Grupo Imagen. XEDA is the flagship station of the Imagen Radio network which is available to other Mexican cities through Imagen's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates. XEDA-FM broadcasts in HD.http://hdradio.com/mexico/estaciones HD Radio Guide for Mexico History In 1968, Publicistas, S.A., received the concession to sign on XEDA-FM 90.5 in Mexico City, and was later acquired by Grupo Imagen, who branded the station as "Radio Imagen" airing contemporary music. In 1992, it adopted a Top 40 format as "Pulsar FM". In 2000, it became a talk station, simply known as "Imagen 90.5" and soon forming a national network. It still retains some musical programming in the overnight hours. Affiliates owned by Grupo Imagen * XHKOK-FM 88.9 MHz - Acapulco, Guerrero * XHQOO-FM 90.7 MHz - Cancún, Quintana Roo * XHCHI-FM 97.3 MHz - Chihuahua, Chihuahua * XHPCPG-FM 98.1 MHz - Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHHCU-TDT
XHHCU-TDT is a television station in Mexico City, broadcasting on UHF channel 45. The station received its permit in 2010 and signed on July 16, 2015, as the first over-the-air outlet of the Canal del Congreso. History As early as 1999, when the Canal del Congreso was being launched, Congress looked into the possibility of putting it on broadcast television. Congress did not begin to build out the station until January 2012, when it signed a pact with Canal 22 under which Canal 22 would provide technical infrastructure and services to XHHCU. The arrangement would generate considerable cost savings. XHHCU-TDT's transmitter was located on the XEIMT-TV/TDT tower until 2018. In early 2014, the station was still not on the air, though it began testing in April. The final delay, as of May 2014, was negotiations with the borough of Gustavo A. Madero to install a transmitter on Cerro del Chiquihuite. The Congress eventually planned to sign on additional broadcast transmitters to exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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