Mixcoac is an area of southern Mexico City which used to be a separate town and municipality within the Mexican Federal District until it was made part of Mexico City proper (the Departamento Central at the time) in 1928.
12-512: Mixcoac consists of the colonias (official neighborhoods) of Nonoalco, San Juan, Extremadura Insurgentes, Mixcoac, and Insurgentes Mixcoac and is part of the borough of Benito Juárez . It is bounded by Avenida de los Insurgentes to the east and the Periférico freeway to the west, south of Colonia Nápoles and San Pedro de los Pinos . It is a designated Barrio Mágico ("magical neighborhood") of Mexico City. The name "Mixcoac" comes from
24-569: Is a list of the Top 100 cities in Mexico by fixed population, according to the 2020 Mexican National Census . According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a locality is "any place settled with one or more dwellings, which may or may not be inhabited, and which is known by a name given by law or tradition". Urban localities are those with more than 2,500 residents, which can be designated as cities, villages or towns according to
36-475: Is in Mixcoac, as is its affiliated private primary and secondary school, Colegio Simón Bolívar . Colegio La Salle Simón Bolívar , another private school, has two campuses in Mixcoac. The Mixcoac Campus of Colegio Williams is also in Mixcoac. Notable residents of Mixcoac have included poets Octavio Paz and Hart Crane , chemist Luis E. Miramontes co-inventor of the progestin norethisterone used in one of
48-619: The Mixcoac archeological site . After the Conquest, ranchos and haciendas were established in the area, as well as a textile factory which is today forms part of the Mexico City campus of the Universidad Panamericana . In the late 19th century, wealthy people from Mexico City began establishing summer residences here and in nearby towns such as Tacubaya , San Ángel and Coyoacán . In 1910
60-618: The Nahuatl language mixtli (cloud), coatl (serpent), co (in), and means "Place of the Cloud Serpent", alluding to the Milky Way and the god Mixcóatl . Before the Spanish conquest there was a small settlement on the edge of Lake Texcoco , the lake that surrounded the island city of Tenochtitlan , today Mexico City. The ruins of the settlement, occupied between about 900 AD and 1521 AD, can be seen at
72-597: The colonia must be specified when writing a postal address in Mexican cities. Usually colonias are assigned a specific postal code ; nonetheless, in recent urban developments, gated communities are also defined as colonias and share the postal code of adjacent neighborhoods. Colonias do not have jurisdictional autonomy or representation. This Mexico location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of cities in Mexico This
84-413: The Top 100. Mexico City contains all of the federal entity's area, including rural areas with relatively small populations. All of the map links are of the same scale. ‡ These cities extend beyond the borders of a single municipality. For the Top 100 cities, the following distributions hold as of the 2020 Census. The total population is 57,930,969, 45.97% of Mexico's total. The mean city population
96-642: The Virgin of the Ray), first founded in 1595. The Manacar tower and shopping center is in colonia Insurgentes Mixcoac at the corner of Avenida Insurgentes and the Circuito Interior freeway. Mixcoac is served by the Mixcoac station of the Mexico City metro , lines 7 and 12. The Universidad Panamericana main campus is located in historic buildings in the historic heart of Insurgentes Mixcoac. Simón Bolívar University
108-650: The first three oral contraceptives , Mexican president Valentín Gómez Farías , director José Solé, and authors José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi , whose house is used for classrooms of the Universidad Panamericana and Katherine Anne Porter , the American story writer and novelist, who later translated one of Lizardi's works. 19°22′34″N 99°11′16″W / 19.3761°N 99.1877°W / 19.3761; -99.1877 Colonia (Mexico) In Mexican urban geography, colonias ( Spanish pronunciation: [koˈlonjas] ) are neighborhoods. The name of
120-537: The large La Castañeda psychiatric hospital opened, functioning until 1967. In 1928 the Municipality of Mixcoac was absorbed into Mexico City proper, becoming part of a new Departamento Central within the Mexican Federal District . In 1910 the municipality had 21,812 residents with about 1900 dwellings. In the following decades the ranchos and haciendas were subdivided and the area became contiguous with
132-804: The laws of each state. The National Urban System, compiled by the National Population Council (CONAPO) in 2018, identifies 401 urban localities in Mexico with more than 15,000 residents as "cities". Mexican localities are contained within the higher-level administrative division of municipalities . This list does not consider the entire population of metropolitan areas and is limited by political boundaries within each municipality or state. Popular notions of city population are not based on official city boundaries, but on metropolitan areas. For population data reflecting common usage, see Metropolitan areas of Mexico . Only one state ( Tlaxcala ) has no cities in
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#1732855217050144-452: The rest of the Mexico City urban area. Nonetheless the historic center of Mixcoac around the main square is largely intact. Historic buildings and sites that still exist include: Churches include the Parroquia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán (a.k.a. Ex Convento y Parroquia de Santo Domingo de Guzmán y Capilla de la Virgen del Rayo , Ex-Convent and Parish of Santo Domingo de Guzmán and Chapel of
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