Plateau mexicainThe Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano (Altiplanicie mexicana), is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico. Averaging above sea level, it extends from the United States border in the north to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in the south, and is bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental to the west and east, respectively. A low east-west mountain range in the state of Zacatecas divides the plateau into northern and southern sections.
CuicuilcoCuicuilco est un important site archéologique mésoaméricain de la période préclassique moyenne et tardive (env. 700 - 150 ) situé sur la rive sud du lac Texcoco dans la vallée de Mexico au sud de la réserve écologique du Pedregal. Ce fut la première cité à s'installer sur les rives du lac Texcoco et fut aussi, pendant le , la plus importante ville de la vallée de Mexico. Aujourd'hui, il s'agit d'un site archéologique important qui a été occupé au cours de la période formative.
XitleXitle (ʃitɬe Nahuatl, "navel") is a monogenetic volcano in the Ajusco range in Cumbres del Ajusco National Park. It is located in the Tlalpan borough in the southwestern part of Mexico City. It is an ash cone volcano with a conical form, round base, altitude of approximately 300m, and a slope between 30° and 40°. Xitle erupted during the period AD 245-315, according to the results of radiocarbon dating. Among the consequences of this eruption were the formation of the Pedregal de San Ángel lava fields, to the south of the Mexican Federal District.
TolucaToluca ou Toluca de Lerdo est la capitale de l'État de Mexico. C'est le centre d'une zone urbaine, et la cinquième ville du Mexique. Elle est située à 63 km au sud-ouest de Mexico. Selon le recensement de 2005, la population de la ville de Toluca s'élève à habitants, la population totale de la municipalité s'élevant à habitants. La zone métropolitaine de la vallée de Toluca est composée de 12 municipalités et possède une population estimée en 2008 à habitants.
Azcapotzalco (altepetl)Azcapotzalco was a pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (state), capital of the Tepanec empire, in the Valley of Mexico, on the western shore of Lake Texcoco. The name Azcapotzalco means "at the anthill" in Nahuatl. Its inhabitants were called Azcapotzalca. According to the 17th century annalist Chimalpahin, Azcapotzalco was founded by Chichimecs in the year 995 AD. The most famous ruler (tlatoani) of Azcapotzalco was Tezozomoctli. According to chronicler Fernando Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, the Tepanecs were a Chichimec group that settled in 1012 in the region west of Lake Texcoco.
NezahualcoyotlNezahualcoyotl (« coyote famélique », « affamé » ou « qui jeûne », en nahuatl) Acolmiztli, surnommé Yoyontzin (« vénérable qui va l'amble »), naquit et mourut à Texcoco ( – ), ville située dans la vallée de Mexico au Mexique. Il fut le dirigeant (tlatoani) de cette ville et du peuple acolhua de 1431 à 1472. Également poète, architecte et philosophe reconnu, il fut une des personnalités les plus importantes de la Mésoamérique postclassique.
ChapultepecChapultepec est une colline et un grand parc, située à quelques kilomètres au sud-ouest du centre de Mexico dans la division territoriale Miguel Hidalgo. Chapultepec fut toujours un lieu spécial pour les Mexicains depuis que les Aztèques y construisirent une implantation temporaire lorsqu'ils arrivèrent du nord du Mexique dans les années 1200. alt=|vignette|287x287px|Le château de Chapultepec.
Tlatelolco (altepetl)Tlatelolco (Mēxihco-Tlatelōlco, ) (also called Mexico Tlatelolco) was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the Valley of Mexico. Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century. The Mexica settled on an island in Lake Texcoco and founded the altepetl of Mexico-Tenochtitlan on the southern portion of the island. In 1337, a group of dissident Mexica broke away from the Tenochca leadership in Tenochtitlan and founded Mexico-Tlatelolco on the northern portion of the island.
CulhuacanCulhuacan (Cōlhuàcān) was one of the Nahuatl-speaking pre-Columbian city-states of the Valley of Mexico. According to tradition, Culhuacan was founded by the Toltecs under Mixcoatl and was the first Toltec city. The Nahuatl speakers agreed that Culhuacán was the first city to give its rulers the title of "speaker" (tlatoani). In the sixteenth century following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Culhuacan was incorporated into colonial New Spain and called a pueblo, but in local-level documentation in Nahuatl, residents continued to use the designation altepetl for their settlement.
