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Tepito

Tepito is a barrio located in Colonia Morelos in , a borough of bordered by Avenida del Trabajo, Paseo de la Reforma, Eje 1 and Eje 2.
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: human settlement in Mexico City
  • Postal code: 06200

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Church
Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the , is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico.

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.

Ruins
Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now . Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tlatelolco and Santa María la Redonda.

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
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is a traditional neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of now part of colonia Guerrero close to Tepito and La Lagunilla.

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The old city center or Histórico of , around the Plaza de la Constitución, is an area clearly different from the rest of the city. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.

Tepito

Latitude
19.44555° or 19° 26′ 44″ north
Longitude
-99.12736° or 99° 7′ 39″ west
Open location code
76F2CVWF+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9041879402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q932570
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Tepito” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “特皮托”
  • Danish: “Tepito”
  • Dutch: “Tepito”
  • French: “Tepito”
  • German: “Tepito”
  • Japanese: “テピート”
  • Japanese: “テピート地区”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tepito”
  • Norwegian: “Tepito”
  • Spanish: “Tepito”
  • Swedish: “Tepito”
  • Turkish: “Tepito”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Parroquia de San Francisco de Asís and Mercado 14 Tepito.

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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 “Tepito”. Photo: A01168527, CC BY-SA 4.0.