Mexico City is the third largest city in the world after Tokyo and Seoul with nearly 20 million inhabitants with an area of over 60km in diameter. Mexico City, capital of Mexico, was originally built on an island in Lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325 and was known as Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan was completely destroyed in 1521 by the Spanish army and then redesigned and rebuilt by the Spanish wanted, without taking into account that the city was on a lake that had dried the Aztecs. In 1524 the name of the city changed and it was in 1585 when the city was renamed Mexico City.

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The story of the creation of Tenochitlan comes from the god of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli, who predicted that the Aztecs had to be nomadic and find where to establish their city until they saw the divine sign (más…)