Mexico City

According to Aztec records, what would become Mexico City was founded in 1325 when a band of nomads from the north settled on an island in Lake Texcoco. The city they founded was called Tenochtitlan, and eventually it expanded to a population of more than 250,000. By the 16th century, the city had become the seat of the Aztec Empire. The Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes first saw the city in 1519, and two years later his forces occupied and systematically leveled the great Aztec metropolis, building their own capital on the ruins. Lake Texcoco was filled in as the city expanded, and the city was rebuilt in the Spanish architectural mode at the same time. From this new city structure, Spanish explorers traveled outward to explore new territory and to subdue the Native American inhabitants as far north as the present United States and south into Central America. Mexico City was made the capital of all

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on inhabitants living in a 400 mile square area. By 1996, it had 17 million people living in an 870 square mile area. Though population growth rates in the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone have diminished significantly over the past 10 years, so they stand now at about two percent a year, and the population of the Districto Federal (or the D.F.) is growing at a rate of 0.5 percent a year, there is still concern over immigration to the city from the countryside. It is estimated that about 150 new people reach the D.F. everyday. Combining this with the birthrate expected over the years raises the population to approximately 30 million by the year 2020. Such immigration is not new, and Mexico City has received a massive inflow of population from the other parts of the country throughout its history. Key Mexican states which have contributed significant population sectors to the capital include Michoacan, Puebla, Jalisco, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon, Hidalgo, and Guanajuato. Mexico City today holds approximately 900,000 Indios (Indians) from more than ten indigenous cultures. Between 1980 and 1990, 20 percent of those immigrating to Mexico City came from other countries, especially Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, China, Cuba, Spain, Fra
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