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Colonia Tránsito
Colonia Tránsito is a colonia or neighborhood in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just south of the city's historic center. It is a residential area although there has been recent redevelopment for more commercial uses. It contains two colonial era churches (one in ruins), a number of buildings containing public offices and it is the home of soft drink maker Pascual Boing Pascual Boing is a Mexican soft drink maker mostly known for its fruit flavored beverages marketed under the Pascual, Boing! and Lulú brands. The enterprise was begun in 1940 and successfully held against the entrance of foreign competitors in t .... Description and landmarks The borders of the colonia are marked by the following streets: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier to the north, Avenida del Taller to the south, Clavijero Street and Calzada de la Viga to the east and Calzada de San Antonio Abad to the west. The area is home to a number of government offices such as the city department of health on X ...
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Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ...
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Boroughs Of Mexico City
Boroughs () are the subdivisions of Mexico City, the capital city and a federative entity of Mexico. As of , there are 16 boroughs in Mexico City. Each borough is headed by a borough mayor (), which makes it colloquially known as . The traditional center of Mexico City comprises four boroughs: Benito Juárez, Mexico City, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City , Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City , Miguel Hidalgo, and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City , Venustiano Carranza. Mexico City is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico, with the others being the 31 states of Mexico, states. It was named (Federal District) until February 5, 2016, when it was officially renamed the . According to the 2020 Censo General de Población y Vivienda, Mexican census, it is the States of Mexico, second most populated entity with inhabitants and the States of Mexico, smallest by land area, spanning . Despite containing the word "city", it is not governed as a city but as a unit consist ...
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Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
Cuauhtémoc (), named after the 16th-century Aztec ruler Cuauhtémoc, is a Boroughs of Mexico City, borough () of Mexico City. It contains the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire urban core of Mexico City in the 1920s. Cuauhtémoc is the historic and cultural center of the capital, although it is not the geographical center. While it ranks only sixth in population, it generates about a third of the entire city's GDP, mostly through commerce and services. It is home to the Mexican Stock Exchange, the important tourist attractions of the historic center of Mexico City, historic center and Zona Rosa, Mexico City, Zona Rosa, and various skyscrapers, such as the Torre Mayor and the Mexican headquarters of HSBC. It also contains numerous museums, libraries, government offices, Traditional fixed markets in Mexico, markets, and other commercial centers, which can bring in as many as 5 million people each day to work, shop, or visit cultural sites. This area has ...
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Colonia (Mexico)
In List of cities in Mexico , Mexican urban geography, colonias () are neighborhoods. The name of 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 community, gated communities are also defined as ''colonias'' and share the postal code of adjacent neighborhoods. Colonias do not have jurisdictional autonomy or representation. See also * Barrio * Barrios Mágicos * Colonias of Mexico City References

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Historic Center Of Mexico City
The historic center of Mexico City (), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central. The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people. This section of the capital lies in the municipal borough of Cuauhtémoc, has just over nine km2 and occupies 668 blocks. It contains 9,000 buildings, 1,550 of which have been declared of historical importance. Most of these historic buildings were constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries. It is divided into two zones for preservation purposes. Zone A encompasses the pre-Hispanic city and its expansion from the Viceroy period until Independence. Zone B covers the areas all other constructions to the end of the 19th century that are considered indispensable to the preservation of the area's archi ...
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Pascual Boing
Pascual Boing is a Mexican soft drink maker mostly known for its fruit flavored beverages marketed under the Pascual, Boing! and Lulú brands. The enterprise was begun in 1940 and successfully held against the entrance of foreign competitors in the Mexican market. However, continued labor disputes led to a strike in 1982, which ended in 1985 with the workers obtaining the right to take over the company, running it as a cooperative. Since then, it has remained a profitable business although it has lost market share in Mexico, due to competition from Coca-Cola and Pepsi. This has prompted the company to protest unfair practices which exclude it from retail venues as well as look abroad to new markets, especially in the United States. it is also one of the sponsors for many Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide's shows History The company was originally a private enterprise, started in 1940 by Rafael Victor Jiménez Zamudo. In the 1960s, Jíménez began using ...
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Neighborhoods In Mexico City
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition, but the following may serve as a starting point: "Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur—the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control." Preindustrial cities In the words of the urban scholar Lewis Mumford, "Neighborhoods, in some annoying, inchoate fashion exist wherever human beings congregate, in permanent family dwellings; and ma ...
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