Colonia del Sol
District of
Estado de México - Mexico

Texcoco (altepetl)

Texcoco was a major Acolhua city-state in the central Mexican plateau region of Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology. It was situated on the eastern bank of Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico, to the northeast of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. The site of pre-Columbian Texcoco is now subsumed by the modern Mexican municipio of Texcoco and its major settlement, the city formally known as Texcoco de Mora.

Located at 19.5294, -98.8967 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.797 miles away.
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Texcoco (altepetl), Altepetl, Aztec sites, Nahuatl words and phrases, Former populated places in Mexico, Populated places established in the 12th century, Texcoco, State of Mexico

Ecatepec de Morelos

Ecatepec, once officially San Cristóbal Ecatepec de Morelos, is a city in the State of Mexico and the seat of Ecatepec de Morelos Municipality; however, both the city and the municipality are often known simply as "Ecatepec". The name "Ecatepec" is derived from Nahuatl, and means "windy hill" or "hill devoted to Ehecatl". It was also an alternative name or invocation to Quetzalcoatl. "Morelos" is the last name of José María Morelos, a hero of the Mexican War of Independence.

Located at 19.6, -99.05 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.807 miles away.
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Mexico City metropolitan area, Populated places in the State of Mexico, Ecatepec de Morelos

San Salvador Atenco

San Salvador Atenco is the municipal seat of Atenco, in the Mexican state of Mexico. The name "Atenco" comes from a Nahuatl phrase meaning "place on the edge of water".

Located at 19.5167, -98.9167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.798 miles away.
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Populated places in the State of Mexico, Municipalities of the State of Mexico

Tlalnepantla de Baz

Tlalnepantla de Baz (better known as Tlanepantla) is a city and a municipality of the State of Mexico, north of Mexico City (Ciudad de Mexico). Tlalnepantla comes from the Náhuatl words tlalli (land) and nepantla (middle) to mean the middle land. The city was known in prior times as Tlalnepantla de Galeana and Tlalnepantla de Comonfort, to honor Hermenegildo Galeana and Ignacio Comonfort, respectively.

Located at 19.5519, -99.0981 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.810 miles away.
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Populated places in the State of Mexico, Municipalities of the State of Mexico, Tlalnepantla de Baz

Tepexpan, State of Mexico

Tepexpan is the largest town in the Acolman municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico. The population was 48,103 as of the 2005 Mexican census. One of the most interesting aspects of this town is the discovery of an early Mesoamerican skeleton commonly referred to as "Tepexpan man". Recent research tries to show that the skeleton was not that of a man but that of a woman. The woman was apparently trampled by a raging mastodon around 11,000 BCE.

Located at 19.6192, -98.9353 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.799 miles away.
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Coacalco de Berriozábal

Coacalco de Berriozábal (also known as Coacalco) is a city and municipality located in the State of Mexico, Mexico. Its name comes from the Nahuatl, Coa-coatl (snake), cal-calli (home) and -co (at), meaning "at the house of the snake", and was first recorded in 1320. The municipality lies in the Greater Mexico City conurbation, and it is located next to the northern tip of the Mexico City.

Located at 19.6333, -99.0931 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.810 miles away.
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Chiconcuac de Juárez

Chiconcuac de Juárez, typically referred to simply as Chiconcuac, is a town and municipio in the state of Mexico, approximately 10 kilometers north of Texcoco de Mora. The name Chiconcuac derives from the Aztec word Chicome Coatl, “Seven snakes”, which was a date on the Aztec calendar.

Located at 19.55, -98.9 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.797 miles away.
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Metro Río de los Remedios

Río de los Remedios is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located on the Anillo Periférico and Boulevard Río de los Remedios in the Colonia Valle de Aragón 2a. Sección neighborhood of the Nezahualcóyotl municipio in Mexico State. The station was opened on 30 November 2000.

Located at 19.4909, -99.0466 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.807 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000

Metro Nezahualcóyotl

Nezahualcóyotl is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City. The logo for the station is the head of a coyote since Nezahualcóyotl is Nahuatl for "hungry coyote", it is similar to the seal of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl. The station was opened on 30 November 2000.

Located at 19.4731, -99.0545 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.808 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000, Nahuatl words and phrases

Metro Impulsora

Impulsora is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. The logo for the station is a cart with an old hacienda in the background. The station was opened on 30 November 2000.

Located at 19.4859, -99.0489 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.807 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000

Metro Múzquiz

Múzquiz is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. The station was opened on 30 November 2000. It is named after Melchor Múzquiz who served as President of Mexico during the second half of 1832.

Located at 19.5016, -99.042 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.807 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000

Metro Ecatepec

Ecatepec is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. It is in the Ecatepec de Morelos city in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City. The station opened on November 30, 2000, under its original name, Metro Tecnológico. The station's icon was the emblem of the Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Ecatepec, whose facilities are located nearby.

Located at 19.5153, -99.036 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.806 miles away.
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Metro Olímpica

Olímpica is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. The station is located at Avenida Central and Avenida Valle de Santiago in the Colonia Jardines de Aragón neighborhood and Avenida Grecia in the Colonia La Olimpica II neighborhood in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City. The logo of the station features the five interlaced Olympic rings of the Olympic Games logo. The station was opened on 30 November 2000.

Located at 19.5213, -99.0334 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.806 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000

Metro Plaza Aragón

Plaza Aragón is a surface station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. The station was opened on 30 November 2000. It is located in the median of Avenida Carlos Hank González in the Colonia Rinconada de Aragón neighborhood in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City. The station logo depicts pots for sale at a tianguis style open air market.

Located at 19.5284, -99.0301 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.806 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000

Metro Ciudad Azteca

Ciudad Azteca (English: Aztec City) is a surface terminal station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the median of Avenida Carlos Hank González in the Colonia Ciudad Azteca neighborhood of Ecatepec de Morelos in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City. It offers connections to the Terminal Multimodal Azteca Bicentenario bus station. The logo represents a hieroglyph typical of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The station was opened on 30 November 2000.

Located at 19.5346, -99.0275 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.806 miles away.
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Mexico City metro stations, Railway stations opened in 2000

San Pablo de las Salinas

San Pablo de las Salinas is the second-largest town in Tultitlán Municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico. The town is part of the Mexico City metropolitan area and had a 2010 census population of 189,453 inhabitants, or 36.15% of the municipal population. The town lies near the northern tip of the Federal District (Distrito Federal).

Located at 19.6656, -99.0917 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.809 miles away.
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Populated places in the State of Mexico

Fuentes del Valle, State of Mexico

Fuentes del Valle is the third-largest town in Tultitlán Municipality in Mexico State, Mexico. The town is part of the Mexico City metropolitan area and had a 2010 census population of 74,087 inhabitants. The town lies near the northern tip of the Federal District (Distrito Federal), and between the larger Buenavista and San Pablo de las Salinas.

Located at 19.6325, -99.1386 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.812 miles away.
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Ojo de Agua, State of Mexico

Ojo de Agua is the largest town in the municipality of Tecámac in Mexico State, Mexico. It is located in the northeastern part of the state, northeast of the Federal District (Distrito Federal) and within the Greater Mexico City urban area. It had a 2010 census population of 242,272 inhabitants, or 66.45 percent of its municipality's total of 364,579. Ojo de Agua is the largest locality in Mexico that is not a municipal seat.

Located at 19.6803, -99.01 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.804 miles away.
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Santiago Teyahualco

Santiago Teyahualco is the second-largest town in the municipality of Tultepec in the state of México in Mexico. At the Mexican census of 2005 the town reported a population of 47,547 inhabitants.

Located at 19.6667, -99.1333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.812 miles away.
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San Juanico disaster

The San Juanico disaster was an industrial disaster caused by a massive series of explosions at a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in San Juanico, Mexico on 19 November 1984. The explosions consumed 11,000 cu. meters of gas, representing one third of Mexico City's entire liquid petroleum gas supply. The explosions destroyed the facility and devastated the local town of San Juan Ixhuatepec, with 500–600 people killed, and 5000–7000 others suffering severe burns.

Located at 19.5189, -99.1056 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.811 miles away.
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Industrial accidents and incidents, 1984 disasters, Disasters in Mexico, Industrial fires and explosions, Gas explosions, 1984 in Mexico, Tlalnepantla de Baz

Paleontological Museum in Tocuila

The Paleontological Museum in Tocuila (Museo Paleontológico en Tocuila) displays part of one of the richest deposits of Late Pleistocene fauna in America. International groups of archeologists discovered a large quantity of bones, mainly mammoth remains, estimated to be 11,000 to 12,000 years old, in an ancient river mouth that used to flow into the Lake Texcoco.

Located at 19.5203, -98.9078 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.798 miles away.
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Natural history museums in Mexico, Museums in the State of Mexico, Pleistocene animals

El Caracol, Ecatepec

The Deposito de Evaporación Solar "El Caracol" (also known as El Caracol de Texcoco or "El Caracol de la Ciudad de México) is a spiral-shaped land formation located to the northeast of Mexico City, in the municipio of Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico. This Giant Spiral is located next to Central Avenue, near from the "Las Americas" Shopping Mall & Residential zone. It was formed by the sediment of the Lago de Texcoco.

Located at 19.57, -99.0018 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.804 miles away.
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Santa Isabel Ixtapan

Santa Isabel Ixtapan is a community which is part of the municipality of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It has 4,125 inhabitants and lies 2,240 meters above sea level. The area is known for having one of the largest and best-studied mammoth kill sites in the Valley of Mexico.

Located at 19.5833, -98.9333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.799 miles away.
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Ecatepec de Morelos (municipality)

Ecatepec de Morelos Municipality borders with Tecámac, Nezahualcóyotl, Acolman, San Salvador Atenco, Tlalnepantla and Distrito Federal. The area of this municipality is 155 km² (59.85 sq mi). Most inhabitants commute to Mexico City for work, and recently the Mexico City metro subway system was extended into Ecatepec.

Located at 19.6097, -99.06 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.807 miles away.
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Municipalities of the State of Mexico, Ecatepec de Morelos

National Pyrotechnic Festival

The National Pyrotechnic Festival, which takes place in Mexico, is an annual event to promote the country's tradition of production and use of fireworks. It began as celebration in honor of John of God, the patron saint of fireworks makers, in the municipality of Tultepec, State of Mexico, which produces about half of all Mexico’s fireworks. The main event, a parade of "toritos" or bull-shaped frames with fireworks on them, began in the mid 19th century.

Located at 19.6851, -99.1287 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6.812 miles away.
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Fireworks competitions, State of Mexico