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Geocultura
La Ciudad de Mexico
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Mexico: Background
1325 a.d.: Aztecs built capital city on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco and called it Tenochtitlan
When Hernán Cortés invaded in the 1500s, he cut off the water supply from Chapultapec, leaving the Aztec capital without water.
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Old capital to new capital
Mexico city was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital.
The city now sits on an ancient dry lake bed.
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La ciudad de mexico
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Originally called Tenochtitlan, is one of the largest cities in the world.
It is one of the most ancient inhabited cities in the occidental hemisphere
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Mexico City
One of the largest metropolitan areas in the world with over 20 million residents.
Nearly one out of four Mexicans call Mexico City home.
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Pico de Orizaba
The tallest peak in Mexico One of Mexico’s active volcanoes
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Rio Bravo
Called the Rio Grande in the U.S.
It forms more than ½ of the 1900 mile long border between Mexico and the U.S.
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¿Sabías que…?
Due to its location, it floods often and parts of it are sinking by a foot a year.
La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico city represent the 3 groups that have ruled the capital. 1. Aztec ruins, 2. a Spanish colonial church,
and a 3. modern housing project can be found.
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La Plaza de las Tres Culturas
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El Paseo de la Reforma
It was inspired by Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Elysées
Is one of the most important and beautiful avenues of the city
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Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Elysées
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Chapultapec Park Bosque de
Chapultapec Near El Paseo
de la Reforma Historical
significance
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Chapultapec Park
Chapultepec means “ Grasshopper hill” in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs
Hernán Cortés – no water A castle was built in the park,
that has been converted into a museum.
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El Zocalo: city center
a.k.a. La Plaza de la Constitución - heart of the city
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El Zocalo: city center
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Catedral Metropolitana
Initiated in 1572, it dominates el Zócalo
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El Palacio NacionalPreviously it was the residence of Hernán Cortés, today it is the governor’s seat of Mexico.
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Diego Rivera
He was the renowned painter who has several famous murals in El Palacio Nacional
Married Kahlo in 1929
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"Market At Tenochtitlán", 1945
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"Disembarkation Of TheSpanish At Veracruz"
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Totonac Civilization, 1950, El Tajin
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El Museo Nacional de Antropología
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El Museo Nacional de Antropología
Exhibits archaeological collections from all over Mexico
One of the finest artifacts is the mask of Teotihuacán
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National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City one of Mexico's most famous symbols.
The stone was carved in the late 1400s; it was discovered buried beneath the Zócalo in 1790. It was originally thought to be a calendar, and for a brief time, a sacrificial altar.
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Teotihuacán
Teotihuacan, 200,000 people lived here, the city is more than 2000 years old !
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La Basilica de Guadalupe It was constructed in honor of the
Virgin of Guadalupe. Many people visit the Basilica each
day
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La Basilica de Guadalupe
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La fiesta de quinceañera
It is celebrated in honor of a young woman when she turns 15.
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Repaso
¿Cuándo fue fundada la Ciudad de México? ¿Dónde está la Plaza del a Constitución? ¿Cómo se llama el parque enorme que está en
la Ciudad de México? ¿Cuál es la población? ¿Cómo se llama la avendia que fue inspirada
por los Campos Eliseos de París?
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El Arte:El caballero aguila
It is a figure that represents an aztec eagle warrior
It is located in the museum of el Templo Mayor.
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El Arte: “La Gran Tenochtitlan”
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El Arte: “La Gran Tenochtitlan”
The previous painting, by Diego Rivera, is located on a wall in El Palacio Nacional
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El Arte: Frida Kahlo
1907-1954 One of the most
famous Mexican painters
Many are self-portraits
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Las Celebraciones: La Fiesta Guadalupana
Millions of people celebrate this on Dec. 12
Many believe that the miracle of the Virgin of Guadalupe united the Mexican society
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Las Celebraciones: La Feria de las Flores
It is celebrated annually in the floating gardens (chinampas) of Xochimilco.
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Feria de las Flores: In Spanish, it
signifies the place of the flowers
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Las Celebraciones: La Independencia
The celebrations on the eve of the day of independence (16 de Septiembre) of Mexico attracts thousands of people to the city center called “El Zócalo”
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La Historia: El angel
The monument of Independence was built in 1970 to celebrate 100 years of independence from Spain (since Dolores’ shout)
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La Historia: Moctezuma II
Moctezuma II came to power in 1502 and was the Aztec emperor when Hernán Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlan in 1519. Cortés conquered in 1521.
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La arqueología: El centro de la ciudad Is built over Moctezuma’s pyramids and
palaces. The Spanish destroyed Aztec temples
and used the stones to build their homes and buildings
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La arqueología: Tláloc
Was the god of water and rain, basic elements of the agricultural cycle and very important to the Aztecs (180)
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Repaso
¿Cuál es el otro nombre del Zócalo? ¿Dónde está el mural “La gran
Tenochtitlan”? ¿Quién es el pintor? ¿Puedes nombrar algunas fiestas
mexicanas? ¿Cómo se llama el dios azteca del agua
y de la lluvia? ¿Quién fue el conquistador de los
aztecas?
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