Alameda Central

Alameda Central is a public in downtown Mexico City. Established in 1592, Alameda Central is the oldest public park in the Americas. Located in between Juárez Avenue and Hidalgo Avenue, the park is adjacent to the and can be accessed by Metro Bellas Artes.
Wikipedia
Photo: Gobierno CDMX, CC0.
  • Type: Park
  • Description: public park in Mexico City
  • Also known as: “Alameda Central Park” and “Alameda Park”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palacio de Bellas Artes and Memory and Tolerance Museum.

Theater building
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The is a prominent cultural center in . It hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions.

Museum
Photo: Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum in , Mexico, established in 2010. It has exhibits about genocide, including the holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian War, the Guatemalan genocide, the Darfur conflict and the Cambodian genocide.

Museum
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The Museo de la Estampa is a museum in , dedicated to the history, preservation and promotion of Mexican graphic arts. The word “estampa” means works in the various printmaking techniques which have the quality of being reproducible and include seals, woodcuts, lithography and others.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centro and Colonia Juárez.

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The old city center or Histórico of , centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.

Neighborhood
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is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of . 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.

Quarter
Photo: Diego Rivera, Public domain.
was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the . Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century.

Alameda Central

Latitude
19.43575° or 19° 26′ 9″ north
Longitude
-99.144° or 99° 8′ 38″ west
Elevation
2,242 metres (7,356 feet)
Inception
1592
Open location code
76F2CVP4+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4758957
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
11560842
Wiki­data ID
Q3355305
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“Alameda Central” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ալամեդա սենտրալ”
  • Chinese: “阿拉米达中央公园”
  • Chinese: “阿拉米達中央公園”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥城阿拉梅达中央公园”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥城阿拉梅達中央公園”
  • Czech: “Alameda Central”
  • Dutch: “Alameda Central”
  • Esperanto: “Alameda Central”
  • Finnish: “Alameda Central”
  • French: “Alameda Central”
  • German: “Alameda Central”
  • Hungarian: “Alameda Central”
  • Italian: “Alameda Central”
  • Japanese: “アラメダ・セントラル”
  • Macedonian: “Мекскико Сити Аламеда Сентрал”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alameda Central”
  • Norwegian: “Alameda Central”
  • Portuguese: “Alameda Central”
  • Spanish: “Alameda Central”
  • Spanish: “La Alameda”
  • Turkish: “Alameda Central”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Barrio Chino and Colonia Centro.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hemiciclo a Juárez and San Juan de Dios church.

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