Obelisco a los Niños Héroes
The Obelisco a los Niños Héroes is a monument installed in Chapultepec, Mexico City. The cenotaph was created in 1881 by architect Ramón Rodríguez Arangoity, one of the cadets captured in the Battle of Chapultepec.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Memorial
- Description: Monument in Chapultepec, Mexico City.
- Also known as: “Niños Héroes Obelisk”, “Obelisco a los Niños Héroes y al Honor Militar”, “Obelisk to Children Heroes”, and “Obelisk to Niños Héroes”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chapultepec and Petrogravures of Cerro de Chapultepec.
Chapultepec
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapultepec is a district of Mexico City. "Chapultepec" means "Grasshopper Hill" in Nahuatl, the language of the "Aztecs". The hill and surrounding district has much significance in Mexican history.
Petrogravures of Cerro de Chapultepec
Archaeological site
Photo: Omar sansi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Petrogravures of Cerro de Chapultepec is an archaeological site.
Monumento a los Niños Héroes
The Monumento a los Niños Héroes, officially Altar a la Patria, is a monument installed in the park of Chapultepec in Mexico City, Mexico. It commemorates the Niños Héroes, six mostly teenage military cadets who were killed defending Mexico City from the United States during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847. Monumento a los Niños Héroes is situated 160 metres northeast of Obelisco a los Niños Héroes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Condesa and San Miguel Chapultepec.
Condesa
Neighborhood
Photo: Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.
San Miguel Chapultepec
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
San Miguel Chapultepec is a colonia or neighborhood in Delegación Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City. Its borders are: The colonia's streets carry the names of generals and governors of Mexico.
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.
Obelisco a los Niños Héroes
- Category: historic site
- Location: Miguel Hidalgo Borough, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.42048° or 19° 25′ 14″ northLongitude
-99.18035° or 99° 10′ 49″ westInception
1881Open location code
76F2CRC9+5VOpenStreetMap ID
way 1140247689OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q60003057
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In Other Languages
From Portuguese to Spanish—“Obelisco a los Niños Héroes” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Obelisco a los Niños Héroes”
- Spanish: “Obelisco a los Niños Héroes”
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Highlights include El Estanque de Moctezuma and Old Guard House.
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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 “Obelisco a los Niños Héroes”. Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY 4.0.