Mexico City is the capital of Mexico; it has the status of Federal District because it is the residence of the Federal goverment. |
Mexico City is the capital of Mexico; it geographically spans both the Federal District (a special administrative unit along the lines of the District of Columbia in the USA), and the state of Mexico, to the north of the Federal District. One of the largest urban areas in the world, larger Mexico City forms a rough ellipse 40 kilometers east to west and 60 kilometers north to south. |
After the fall of Tenochtitlan, it was renamed Mexico City and became the center of political, religious, economical and cultural power of the new Spanish colony, [New Spain]?. On top of the ruins of the Aztec empire, and very often using the materials of the destroyed Aztec buildings, the Spanish built a new city from where all of New Spain and later the Phillipines? would be governed. |
After the fall of Tenochtitlan, it was renamed Mexico City and became the center of political, religious, economical and cultural power of the new Spanish colony, [New Spain]?. On top of the ruins of the Aztec empire, and very often using the materials of the destroyed Aztec buildings, the Spanish built a new city from where all of New Spain and later the Philippines would be governed. |
The first democraticaly elected chief of goverment was [Cuahutemoc Cardenas]?, a former Presidential candidate (and according to many, winner of the very disputed 1988 presidential election. |
The first democraticaly elected chief of goverment was [Cuauhtemoc Cardenas]?, a former Presidential candidate (and according to many, winner of the very disputed 1988 presidential election. |