Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco is an area now within the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Its archeological history extends to remains from the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as more recent colonial structures.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: area in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City
- Also known as: “Tlatelolco, Mexico City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tlatelolco metro station and Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco.
Tlatelolco metro station
Metro station
Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tlatelolco is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, to the north of the downtown area.
Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco
Residential area
Photo: Susleriel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco is the largest apartment complex in Mexico, and second largest in North America, after New York's Co-op City. The complex is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.
Tlatelolco
Museum
Photo: TlatelolcoTV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tlatelolco is an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City, Mexico, where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of the same name have been found.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tlatelolco and Colonia Santa María Insurgentes.
Tlatelolco
Quarter
Photo: Diego Rivera, Public domain.
Tlatelolco was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the Valley of Mexico. 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.
Colonia Santa María Insurgentes
Neighborhood
Colonia Santa María Insurgentes is a colonia in the Cuauhtémoc borough north east of the Mexico City's historic center. The colonia's borders are formed by the following roads: Calzada de San Simon to the south, Jacarandas to the north, Avenida de los Insurgentes Norte to the east and Jacarandas to the west.
Santa María la Redonda
Neighborhood
Photo: Dge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa María la Redonda is a traditional neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of Mexico City now part of colonia Guerrero close to Tepito and La Lagunilla.
Tlatelolco
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Tlatelolco” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Тлателолко (Мексико сити)”
- Bulgarian: “Тлателолко”
- Catalan: “Tlatelolco”
- Chinese: “特拉特洛尔科”
- Dutch: “Tlatelolco”
- French: “Tlatelolco”
- German: “Tlatelolco”
- Hungarian: “Tlatelolco”
- Italian: “Tlatelolco (Città del Messico)”
- Italian: “Tlatelolco”
- Japanese: “トラテロルコ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tlatelolco”
- Norwegian: “Tlatelolco”
- Piemontese: “Tlatelolco”
- Portuguese: “Tlatelolco”
- Scots: “Tlatelolco (Mexico Ceety)”
- Scots: “Tlatelolco, Mexico Ceety”
- Scots: “Tlatelolco”
- Spanish: “Nonoalco Tlatelolco”
- Spanish: “Tlatelolco (ciudad de México)”
- Spanish: “Tlatelolco”
- Swedish: “Tlatelolco”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Tlatelolco”. Photo: JEDIKNIGHT1970, CC BY 2.5.