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Nature Attractions In Mexico City

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Mexico City, or the City of Mexico , is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the Americas. It is located in the Valley of Mexico , a large valley in the high plateaus in the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 meters . The city has 16 boroughs. The 2009 population for the city proper was approximately 8.84 million people, with a land area of 1,485 square kilometers . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21.3 million, which makes it the largest metropo...
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  • 1. Acuario Inbursa Mexico City
    The Acuario Inbursa is an aquarium in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City. It is the largest in Mexico with 3500 square meters of exhibition space and 1.6 million liters of ocean water. The project of billionaire Carlos Slim, it cost 250 million Mexican pesos, or 19 million US dollars, to build. It opened in June 2014 with 3000 animals of 230 different species, with plans by the end of the year to have 10,000 animals of over 300 species. The building has 5 stories of which 4 are underground. Some Mexican press articles claim the aquarium as the largest in Latin America, however the Dominican Republic's National Aquarium is much larger at 34,500m².
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  • 2. Bosque de Chapultepec Mexico City
    Chapultepec, more commonly called the Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City, is one of the largest city parks in the Western Hemisphere, measuring in total just over 686 hectares . Centered on a rock formation called Chapultepec Hill, one of the park's main functions is to be an ecological space in Greater Mexico City. It is considered the first and most important of Mexico City's lungs, with trees that replenish oxygen to the Valley of Mexico. The park area has been inhabited and considered a landmark since the Pre-Columbian era, when it became a retreat for Aztec rulers. In the colonial period, Chapultepec Castle was built here, eventually becoming the official residence of Mexican heads of state. It would remain so until 1940, when it was moved to another part of the park called Los Pino...
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  • 4. Floating Gardens of Xochimilco Mexico City
    Chinampa is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico. Although different technology existed during the Post-classic and Colonial periods in the basin, chinampas have raised many questions on agricultural production and political development. After the Aztec Triple Alliance formed, the conquest of southern basin city-states, such as Xochimilco, was one of the first strategies of imperial expansion. Prior to this time, farmers maintained small-scale chinampas adjacent to their households and communities in the freshwater lakes of Xochimilco and Chalco. The Aztecs did not invent chinampas but rather were the first to develop it to a large scale cultivation. Sometimes referred to...
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  • 6. Parque Tezozomoc Mexico City
    Parque Tezozómoc is a large park in Mexico City. It is located in the Azcapotzalco borough, in the northwestern section of Mexico City , Mexico. It is 28 hectares in size. The park was designed by Mario Schjetnan, and opened in 1982. It is near the El Rosario residential neighborhood, and was built on the land of the former Hacienda del Rosario. It an important public open space, sports and recreational area, and a point of reference landmark for northwestern Mexico City.
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  • 7. Cumbres Del Ajusco National Park Mexico City
    Cumbres del Ajusco National Park is one of many national parks near Mexico City, DF. The Ajusco is known for its high elevations reaching 3,900 meters above sea level and is visible from any part of Mexico city. The park is characterized by pine-oak forests and high mountain grassland. Cumbres del Ajusco means watered grove peaks, an appropriate name for this mountainous region covered with lush green forest with many flowers due to a fair amount of precipitation. The Balsas and Lerma rivers begin in the heart of the Cumbres del Ajusco. This range accounts for approximately half of the area of the Mexican Federal District, the rest of which is occupied by Mexico City. The area is key to the conservation of the ecosystem, and is important to endemic species. Urbanization of Mexico city has ...
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  • 12. Atlantis Marine Park Mexico City
    Location hypotheses of Atlantis are various proposed real-world settings for the fictional island of Atlantis, described as a lost civilization mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 B.C. In these dialogues, a character named Critias claims that an island called Atlantis was swallowed by the sea about 9,200 years previously. According to the dialogues, this story was passed down to him through his grandfather, also named Critias, who in turn got it from his father, Dropides, who had got it from Solon, the famous Athenian lawmaker, who had got the story from an Egyptian sanctuary. Plato's dialogues locate the island in the Atlantic Pelagos Atlantic Sea, in front of the Pillars of Hercules and facing a district called modern Gades or Gadira , a location that so...
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  • 13. Los Dinamos Mexico City
    The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia.The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe, and remain the only Summer Olympics held there, as well as the first Olympic Games to be held in a Slavic language-speaking country. They were also the first Olympic Games to be held in a socialist country, and the only Summer Games to be held in such a country until 2008 in Beijing, China. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games – the smallest number since 1956. Led by the United States at the insistence of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, ...
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