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Supervía Poniente
The Supervía Poniente (literally "Western Super-Way") is a tollway linking the business district of Santa Fe, Mexico City with the Anillo Periférico beltway in southwestern Mexico City. The final portion opened on June 15, 2013. From Paseo de la Reforma and Mexican Federal Highway 15D just east of the Centro Santa Fe Centro Santa Fe (English: Santa Fe Center or Santa Fe Mall), often incorrectly named "Centro Comercial Santa Fe", is a large enclosed shopping mall in the Santa Fe area of Cuajimalpa, Mexico City. Centro Santa Fe is the largest shopping cente ... shopping mall, Avenida Carlos Laza begins, which turns into the tollway. The road then crosses Las Águilas, Desierto de los Leones and Avenida Las Torres roads, continuing to Avenida de Los Poetas until Avenida Luis Cabrera and its junction with the Periférico. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Supervia Poniente Highways in Greater Mexico City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe, Mexico City
Santa Fe is one of Mexico City's major business districts, located in the west part of the city in the ''alcaldías'' (boroughs) of Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón. The Paseo de la Reforma avenue and Constituyentes avenue are the primary means of access to the district from the central part of Mexico City. Santa Fe consists mainly of highrise buildings surrounding a large shopping mall, Centro Santa Fe, which is currently the largest mall in Latin America. The district also includes a residential area and three university campuses, among other facilities.The Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail, due to open in 2023, will also improve mobility and development in the district. History The current area of Santa Fe took its name from Santa Fé de México, the 16th century ''Pueblo Hospital of Santa Fe'', founded by Vasco de Quiroga in 1532. The ruins of the hospital still exist in the area. Colonial period and independence During the Spanish colonial era (late 15th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anillo Periférico
The Anillo Periférico (Spanish for ''peripheral ring'') is the outer beltway A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city, or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist i ... of Mexico City. The ''Periferico'' was originally planned by architect Carlos Contreras as early as 1925, together with other major roads such as the Viaducto Miguel Alemán. Some parts of the beltway were built to follow the bed of a river; the flow of the river was modified to flow through a pipe. The beltway gained major media attention when the then Mexico City mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, started a project to turn a southern section of the ring into a two-story highway. The second level was finished in 2006 in the Federal District and in the State of Mexico in 2009. From Cuautitlán in the north (State of Mexico) to Naucalpan at the Fe ... [...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] |
Paseo De La Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma (translated as "Promenade of the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City. It was designed at the behest of Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig during the era of the Second Mexican Empire and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as the Ringstraße in Vienna and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The planned grand avenue was to link the National Palace with the imperial residence, Chapultepec Castle, which was then on the southwestern edge of town. The project was originally named Paseo de la Emperatriz ("Promenade of the Empress") in honor of Maximilian's consort Empress Carlota. After the fall of the Empire and Maximilian's subsequent execution, the Restored Republic renamed the Paseo in honor of the La Reforma. It is now home to many of Mexico's tallest buildings such as the Torre Mayor and others in the Zona Rosa. More modern extensions continue the avenue at an angle to the old Paseo. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Federal Highway 15
Federal Highway 15 ( es, Carretera Federal 15, Fed. 15 ) is Mexico 15 International Highway or Mexico- Nogales Highway, is a primary north-south highway, and is a free part of the federal highways corridors ( es, los corredores carreteros federales) of Mexico. The highway begins in the north at the Mexico–United States border at the Nogales Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora, and terminates to the south in Mexico City. Fed. 15 from Nogales to Mazatlán runs parallel to Fed. 15D, a tolled (cuota) part of the federal highways corridors (los corredores carreteros federales); the portion of this northern stretch from the town of Eldorado southward within the Sinaloa is a limited-access highway."Rand McNally Road Atlas", Rand McNally & Company, 1998, p. 120 North of the U.S.-Mexico border, the highway continues to the north from the Port of Entry, as I-19 Business. The highway is the southern terminus of the CANAMEX Corridor, a trade corridor that stretches from Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centro Santa Fe
Centro Santa Fe (English: Santa Fe Center or Santa Fe Mall), often incorrectly named "Centro Comercial Santa Fe", is a large enclosed shopping mall in the Santa Fe area of Cuajimalpa, Mexico City. Centro Santa Fe is the largest shopping center in Mexico. The original mall, , cost 270 billion old Mexican pesos (270 million current pesos) in 1993. It was further expanded in 2012. Within the Centro Santa Fe, two floors above the Sears wing are separately branded as Vía Santa Fe, containing mid-luxury clothing retailers (e.g. Salvatore Ferragamo, La Martina, Dolce & Gabbana), a Cinemex "Platinum" luxury multi-cinema, Casa Palacio (home store run by El Palacio de Hierro), and Mexico's first Apple Store. Anchors in the main mall are El Palacio de Hierro, Liverpool, Sanborns, Sears, and Saks Fifth Avenue department stores, and a Chedraui Chedraui is a publicly traded Mexican grocery store and department store chain which also operates stores in the U.S. in the states of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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