Pueblo Culhuacán
Pueblo Culhuacán is an officially designated neighborhood of the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City, which used to be a major pre-Hispanic city. Ancient Culhuacán was founded around 600 CE and the site has been continuously occupied since.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: human settlement in Mexico
- Also known as: “Colhuacán”, “Culhuacan”, “Culiacán”, and “Culuacán”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Culhuacán metro station and Cerro de la Estrella.
Culhuacán metro station
Metro station
Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Culhuacán is a station on Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro. The station is located between Atlalilco and San Andrés Tomatlán. It was opened on 30 October 2012 as a part of the first stretch of Line 12 between Mixcoac and Tláhuac.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colonia de La Candelaria and Churubusco.
Colonia de La Candelaria
Quarter
Photo: Betoqa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Colonia de La Candelaria is a quarter, which is situated 4½ km west of Pueblo Culhuacán.
Churubusco
Quarter
Photo: Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot, Public domain.
Churubusco is a neighbourhood of Mexico City. It is a part of the borough of Coyoacán. It is centred on the former Franciscan monastery at. The name "Churubusco" is the interpretation the Spanish invaders gave to the original Nahuatl name Huitzilopochco – meaning "place of Huitzilopochtli". Churubusco is situated 4½ km west of Pueblo Culhuacán.
Coyoacán
This relatively large area in the southwest of Mexico City has always been a counterculture hotbed. This is where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived, a few blocks away from Leon Trotsky, and the tranquil residential area, with parks, squares, and cobblestone streets, is now a favourite spot for the bohemia set.
Pueblo Culhuacán
- Categories: colonia of Mexico and locality
- Location: Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.33972° or 19° 20′ 23″ northLongitude
-99.10779° or 99° 6′ 28″ westElevation
2,251 metres (7,385 feet)Open location code
76F28VQR+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 11256413814OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Pueblo Culhuacán” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “库尔瓦坎村”
- Chinese: “庫爾瓦坎村”
- Dutch: “Pueblo Culhuacán”
- Polish: “Culhuacán”
- Spanish: “Culhuacán”
- Spanish: “Pueblo Culhuacan”
- Spanish: “Pueblo Culhuacán”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Colonia Valle de Luces and Pueblo Culhuacán.
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Highlights include Ex-Convento de Culhuacán and Fuente.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pueblo Culhuacán”. Photo: Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 3.0.