Colonia San Juan is a neighborhood in

Benito Juárez Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican liberal politician and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. As a Zapotec, he was the first indigenous pre ...

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Location

Colonia San Juan is located in the

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, in southern

. The neighborhood is bordered by: * Eje 6 Sur Holbein on the north, across which is Santa María Nonoalco and Ciudad de los Deportes *Av. Revolución on the west, across which is Santa María Nonoalco *Empresa street on the south, across which is Colonia Insurgentes Mixcoac *Augusto Rodin street on the east, across which is Colonia Noche Buena and Colonia Extremadura Insurgentes

Description

The neighborhood is mainly a residential zone, with some small shops and businesses such as convenience stores, tailor shops, restaurants and tortillerías. The colonia has one public plaza, the Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías, that dates back to the 17th century. The former house of

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Valentín Gómez Farías, where he was even buried some years after his death in 1858, is located on one of the sides of the plaza. The building now houses Instituto Mora, a public research school. Colonia San Juan has one church, the Parroquia San Juan Evangelista y Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Church of Saint John the Evangelist and Our Lady of Guadalupe) a

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building, dating back to the 17th century. The church has pieces of great artistic value, such as an oil painting of the

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and a sculpture of

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. The church is located in front of Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías. Besides Valentín Gómez Farías, other notable historical residents include Mexican intellectual Ireneo Paz, grandfather of Mexican writer and Nobel laureate

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, who lived in a 19th century house that is still in the neighborhood but is now used as a house of Dominican preachers.

Education

Colonia San Juan is home to the Instituto de Investigaciones Doctor José María Luis Mora or simply Instituto Mora, a public research institution focusing on History, Sociology and Regional Studies. The institute is located in the building that was the house of

Valentín Gómez Farías Valentín Gómez Farías (; 14 February 1781 – 5 July 1858) was a Mexican physician and liberal politician who became president of Mexico twice, first in 1833, during the period of the First Mexican Republic, and again in 1846, during the ...

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for five short periods in the 1830s and 1840s.

Transportation

Public transportation

The area is served by

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and EcoBici bikeshare. ;Metro stations *

Mixcoac Mixcoac is an area of southern Mexico City which used to be a separate town and municipality within the Mexican Federal District until it was made part of Mexico City proper (the '' Departamento Central'' at the time) in 1928. Mixcoac consists o ...

References

{{Mexico City neighborhoods Benito Juárez, Mexico City