Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco is an area now within the Cuauhtémoc borough of , centered on the . Its archeological history extends to remains from the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as more recent colonial structures.
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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.

Metro station
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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 , to the north of the downtown area.

Residential area
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The is the largest apartment complex in Mexico, and second largest in North America, after New York's . The complex is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of .

Library
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, also known as the Megabiblioteca by the press, is a library in the Buenavista neighborhood of . It is dedicated to José Vasconcelos, the philosopher and former president of the National Library of Mexico.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tlatelolco and Colonia Santa María Insurgentes.

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.

Neighborhood
is a colonia in the Cuauhtémoc borough north east of the . 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.

Photo: Uwebart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Tlatelolco

Latitude
19.45315° or 19° 27′ 11″ north
Longitude
-99.14235° or 99° 8′ 33″ west
Elevation
2,245 metres (7,365 feet)
Open location code
76F2FV35+73
Geo­Names ID
11561314
Wiki­data ID
Q14623011
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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”
  • Hindi: “त्लातेलोल्को”
  • 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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