PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Mexico City

Altitude: 2,240 meters.

Population: 20 million inhabitants.

Location: The Federal District and the State of Mexico.  In the Valley of  Anáhuac ("The Navel of the Universe") or Valley of Mexico, between the Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl and Ajusco volcanoes.

 

Teotihuacán

Prehispanic name: The original name is unknown. The nahuas called it Teotihuacan or "Place where the gods are created". 1^st Century B.C- 7^th or 8^th Century A.D.

Location: 50 km. Northeast of Mexico City. In the State of Mexico.

 

Cacaxtla

Prehispanic name: The original name is unknown. 1,700 B.C. - 850 A.D. Inhabited again before the XVI Century.

Altitude: 2,170 meters.

Location: 180 km. Southeast of Mexico City. In the State of Tlaxcala.

 

Cuernavaca

Prehispanic name: Cuauhnáhuac or "On the edge of the forest". Founded by a Chichimec tribe, it was later conquered by the Aztecs. Inhabited for the most part by the Tlahuica or "People of the Earth," a Nahua village descended from the Chichimecs.

Altitude: 1,542 metros.

Population: 1 million inhabitants.

Location: Capital of the State of Morelos. 90 km. South of Mexico City.

 

Taxco

Prehispanic name: Tlaxco or "Ball game". Inhabited by the tlahuica and later by the Aztecs.

Altitude: 1,666 meters.

Population: 100,000 inhabitants.

Location: En el Estado de Guerrero, entre Cuernavaca y Acapulco. Almost 200 km. From Mexico City.

 

Oaxaca

Prehispanic names

Inhabited by Zapotecs, Mixtecs and Aztecs.

Altitude: 1,545 meters.

Population: 800,000 inhabitants.

Location: Capital of the State of Oaxaca. 500 km. Southeast of México City.

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