Central Mexico
Mexico City
Alvaro Obregon Borough

Álvaro Obregón

Álvaro Obregón is a borough in . It contains a large portion of the south-west part of Mexico City. It had a 2020 census population of 759,137 inhabitants and lies at an elevation of 2,319 m. above sea level.
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  • Type: Borough with 759,000 residents
  • Description: territorial demarcation of Mexico City
  • Also known as: “Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City”, “Obergen Villa”, “Obrogen Villa”, and “Villa Obregón”
  • Historically known as: “San Angel”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chapultepec and National Museum of Anthropology.

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is a district of . "Chapultepec" means "Grasshopper Hill" in Nahuatl, the language of the "Aztecs". The hill and surrounding district has much significance in Mexican history.

Museum
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The is a national museum of . It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in , the museum contains…

Museum
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, also known as Casa Luis Barragán, is the former residence of architect Luis Barragán in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Condesa and Roma and Polanco.

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The district of is a residential and restaurant area on both sides of Insurgentes avenue between Viaducto Miguel Alemán in the south and Avenida Chapultepec in the north.

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refers to an area of north of Park. This district is delimited by Paseo de la Reforma to the south, Boulevard Manuel Avila Camacho to the west, Avenida Ejercito Nacional to the north and Avenida Mariano Escobedo to the east.

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Avenida Insurgentes runs south of the central downtown areas cutting through two large, mostly residential neighborhoods: Colonia and Narvarte.

Álvaro Obregón

Latitude
19.3907° or 19° 23′ 26″ north
Longitude
-99.1952° or 99° 11′ 43″ west
Population
759,000
Elevation
2,338 metres (7,671 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX AOB
Open location code
76F29RR3+7W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2294184302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­borough
Geo­Names ID
3514663
Wiki­data ID
Q14906254
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“Álvaro Obregón” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Álvaro Obregón (Mexiko Hiria)”
  • Basque: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Catalan: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Cebuano: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Chinese: “阿尔瓦罗·奥夫雷贡区”
  • Dutch: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • French: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Georgian: “ალვარო-ობრეგონი”
  • German: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Hungarian: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Irish: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Italian: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Italian: “Delegazione Álvaro Obregón”
  • Japanese: “アルバロ・オブレゴン”
  • Ladino: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Latin: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Norwegian: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Polish: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Portuguese: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Russian: “Альваро-Обрегон”
  • Scots: “Álvaro Obregón, Mexico Ceety”
  • Scots: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Serbian: “Алваро Обрегон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Álvaro Obregón, Distrito Federal”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Álvaro Obregón”
  • Spanish: “Alvaro Obregon”
  • Spanish: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Swedish: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • Turkish: “Álvaro Obregón, Meksiko”
  • Vietnamese: “Álvaro Obregón, Thành phố México”
  • Vietnamese: “Álvaro Obregón”
  • “Álvaro Obregón”

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