Colonia Juárez
Colonia Juárez is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thelmadatter, Public domain.
- Type: Neighborhood with 10,200 residents
- Description: colonia of Mexico City
- Also known as: “Colonia Americana”, “Colonia Juarez”, and “Colonia Juárez, Mexico City”
- Postal code: 06600
Places of Interest
Highlights include Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin and Monument to Cuauhtémoc.
Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin
Library
Photo: Andycyca, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin is the Official Information Center of the United States Embassy in Mexico. The library provides the usual services expected of libraries such as lending material, providing reference and research assistance, storytimes, and conversation clubs.
Monument to Cuauhtémoc
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Monument to Cuauhtémoc is an 1887 monument dedicated to the last Mexica ruler of Tenochtitlan Cuauhtémoc, located at the intersection of Avenida de los Insurgentes and Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City.
Angel of Independence
Photo: Cvmontuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Angel of Independence, most commonly known by the shortened name El Ángel and officially known as Monumento a la Independencia, is a victory column on a roundabout on the major thoroughfare of Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zona Rosa and Little Seoul.
Zona Rosa
Photo: Virtual Raider, CC BY 2.0.
Zona Rosa is a business and entertainment district located in a portion of Colonia Juárez, near the center of Mexico City. It is one of the city's most touristy areas, filled with hotels, dance clubs, restaurants, bars and live bands.
Little Seoul
Neighborhood
Pequeño Seúl is a Koreatown in Mexico City. Most of the city's Korean population lives in and around the Zona Rosa. According to the newspaper Reforma, there are at least 5,000 Koreans living in Zona Rosa and about 6,000 total in Colonia Juárez, the larger officially recognized neighborhood of which the Zona Rosa is a part of.
Centro Urbano Benito Juárez
Neighborhood
Photo: Gobierno CDMX, CC0.
The Centro Urbano Benito Juárez, more commonly called the Multifamiliar Juárez, was a large apartment complex built on the southeast section of Colonia Roma, Mexico City in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Colonia Juárez
- Categories: Mexico City colonia and locality
- Location: Cuauhtémoc Borough, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.42795° or 19° 25′ 41″ northLongitude
-99.15883° or 99° 9′ 32″ westPopulation
10,200Elevation
2,242 metres (7,356 feet)Inception
1898Open location code
76F2CRHR+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 9041880400OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
“Colonia Juárez” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Colonia Juárez”
- Spanish: “Juárez”
- Spanish: “La Juárez”
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