Obelisco a los Niños Héroes

The Obelisco a los Niños Héroes is a monument installed in , . The cenotaph was created in 1881 by architect Ramón Rodríguez Arangoity, one of the cadets captured in the Battle of Chapultepec.
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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.

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is principal park, "the green lung of the city". This hill has been important throughout the city's history as the perch of fortresses and palaces, and the manicured forest surrounding it now holds many of Mexico's greatest cultural treasures.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

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The , officially Altar a la Patria, is a monument installed in the park of in , Mexico. It commemorates the Niños Héroes, six mostly teenage military cadets who were killed defending from the during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847. is situated 160 metres northeast of Obelisco a los Niños Héroes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Condesa and San Miguel Chapultepec.

Neighborhood
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or La is an area in the borough of , south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.

Quarter
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is a colonia or neighborhood in Delegación Miguel Hidalgo in . Its borders are: The colonia's streets carry the names of generals and governors of Mexico.

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

Latitude
19.42048° or 19° 25′ 14″ north
Longitude
-99.18035° or 99° 10′ 49″ west
Inception
1881
Open location code
76F2CRC9+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1140247689
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q60003057
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In Other Languages

From Korean to Spanish—“Obelisco a los Niños Héroes” goes by many names.

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