Lake Texcoco

Lake Texcoco was a natural saline lake within the Anahuac or . Lake Texcoco is best known for an island situated on the western side of the lake where the Mexica built the city of Mēxihco Tenōchtitlan, which would later become the capital of the Aztec Empire.
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  • Type: Intermittent lake
  • Description: former natural lake formation within the Valley of Mexico
  • Also known as: “Teskoko”, “Texcocosee”, “Tezcoco”, “Tezcoco-See”, “Tezcuco”, and “Токскоко”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ciudad Azteca metro station and Plaza Aragón metro station.

Railway stop
Photo: Tbhotch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a station of the Mexico… is situated 3½ km west of Lake Texcoco.

Metro station
Photo: Tbhotch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a station of the Mexico… is situated 3½ km west of Lake Texcoco.

Metro station
Photo: GAED, CC0.
is a station of the Mexico City… is situated 4 km west of Lake Texcoco.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lake Texcoco Ecological Park and San Salvador Atenco.

Locality
The , officially called… is situated 6 km southeast of Lake Texcoco.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the municipal seat of Atenco, in the state of . is situated 9 km east of Lake Texcoco.

Photo: PetrohsW, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb of , lying just across the state line in .

Lake Texcoco

Latitude
19.52545° or 19° 31′ 32″ north
Longitude
-98.99661° or 98° 59′ 48″ west
Elevation
2,228 metres (7,310 feet)
Open location code
76F3G2G3+59
Geo­Names ID
3515717
Wiki­data ID
Q13700
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lake Texcoco” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة تشكوكو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Teskoko gölü”
  • Basque: “Texcoco aintzira”
  • Belarusian: “Тэшкока”
  • Catalan: “llac de Texcoco”
  • Catalan: “Llac de Texcoco”
  • Chinese: “特斯科科湖”
  • Croatian: “Texcoco (jezero)”
  • Croatian: “Texcoco”
  • Czech: “Jezero Texcoco”
  • Czech: “Texcoco”
  • Danish: “Texcoco-søen”
  • Dutch: “Texcocomeer”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Tekskoko”
  • Estonian: “Texcoco järv”
  • Finnish: “Texcocojärvi”
  • French: “lac Texcoco”
  • French: “Lac Texcoco”
  • Georgian: “ტესკოკო”
  • Georgian: “ტესკოკოს ტბა”
  • German: “Texcoco-See”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Τεξκόκο”
  • Hebrew: “אגם טשקוקו”
  • Icelandic: “Texcocovatn”
  • Ido: “Lago Texcoco”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Texcoco”
  • Italian: “lago di Texcoco”
  • Italian: “Lago di Texcoco”
  • Japanese: “テスココ湖”
  • Korean: “텍스코코호”
  • Limburgan: “Texcocomaer”
  • Lithuanian: “Teskoko ežeras”
  • Macedonian: “Текскоко”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Texcocosjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Texcocosjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Texcoco”
  • Persian: “دریاچه تشکوکو”
  • Piemontese: “Lagh Texcoco”
  • Polish: “Texcoco”
  • Portuguese: “Lago de Texcoco”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Texcoco”
  • Russian: “Тескоко”
  • Slovenian: “jezero Texcoco”
  • Slovenian: “Texcoco”
  • Spanish: “Lago de Texcoco”
  • Spanish: “Vaso del Lago de Texcoco”
  • Swedish: “Texcocosjön”
  • Turkish: “Texcoco Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Тескоко”
  • Venetian: “lago de Texcoco”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Texcoco”
  • Wu Chinese: “特斯科科湖”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Polígono Uno and Novela Mexicana Uno.

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