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In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established, known as México Tenochtitlán, [22] and as of 1585, it was officially known as Ciudad de México (Mexico City). [22] Mexico City played a major role in the Spanish colonial empire as a political, administrative, and financial center. [23] Following independence from Spain, the federal ...
Geography of Mexico. / 23.000°N 102.000°W / 23.000; -102.000. The geography of Mexico describes the geographic features of Mexico, a country in the Americas. Mexico is located at about 23° N and 102° W [1] in the southern portion of North America. [2] [3] From its farthest land points, Mexico is a little over 3,200 km (2,000 mi) in ...
Tenochtitlan, [a] also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, [b] was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city. [2]
Coordinates: 19°40′N 98°52′W. The Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519. View of the Valley of Mexico from the neighborhood of San Bernabé Ocotepec, 2022. The Valley of Mexico ( Spanish: Valle de México; Nahuatl languages: Anahuac, lit. 'Land Between the Waters' [1] ), sometimes also called Basin of Mexico, is a ...
Mosaic coevolution. Mosaic coevolution is a theory in which geographic location and community ecology shape differing coevolution between strongly interacting species in multiple populations. These populations may be separated by space and/or time. Depending on the ecological conditions, the interspecific interactions may be mutualistic or ...
History of Mexico City. Coordinates: 19°25′59.11″N 99°7′43.84″W. The symbol of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the central image on the Mexican flag since Mexican independence from Spain in 1821. The history of Mexico City stretches back to its founding ca. 1325 CE as the Mexica city-state of Tenochtitlan, which evolved into the ...
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. [1] Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that studies the ...
1987 (11th Session) Area. 3,381.71 ha. Teotihuacan ( / teɪˌoʊtiːwəˈkɑːn /; [1] Spanish: Teotihuacán, Spanish pronunciation: [teotiwa'kan] ⓘ; modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers (25 mi) northeast of ...