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San Pedro de los Pinos is a neighborhood located in center-west of
San Pedro de los Pinos is a mixed neighborhood with both residential and commercial buildings. Most of the residential buildings date back to the first half of the 20th century, though new apartment buildings are being built in the zone.
The neighborhood has a wide variety of entertainment and commercial buildings, including hotels, restaurants, banks, cafés and gymnasiums.
The colonia has two public parks: Parque Pombo and Parque Miraflores.
In the southern part of San Pedro de los Pinos there is an archaeological site dating to the Mesoamerican postclassic period, known simply as Mixcoac archaeological zone. In this same area, there is a cultural center named "La Pirámide" (the pyramid), where several artistic and sports activities take place.
Metropoli Patriotismo is a large shopping center and mixed-use complex in the neighborhood of .
Avenida Revolución and Patriotismo are landmarks, wide, one-way boulevards through San Pedro de los Pinos that form part of the Circuito Interior, most of which is a controlled-access freeway, but in this section consists of the two surface streets.
Mexico City
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. Before being urbanized during the first half of the 20th century, the colonia was part of a vast farming area belonging to several ranch
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es and hacienda
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s.
Location
San Pedro de los Pinos is located in theBenito Juárez
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borough
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History
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of Mexico City
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.
The neighborhood is bordered by:
*11 de abril street on the north, across which is Tacubaya
Tacubaya is a Poverty in Mexico, working-class area of Mexico City in the borough of Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., Miguel Hidalgo. The ''colonia (Mexico), colonia'' Tacubaya and adjacent areas in other colonias are collectively referred to as Tacubaya. ...
, in the Miguel Hidalgo borough
*Calle 2 street on the northwest, across which is Colonia 8 de agosto
*Anillo Periférico
The Anillo Periférico known by locals as ''el periférico'' (Spanish for ''peripheral ring'') is the outer beltway of Mexico City.
The ''Periferico'' was originally planned by architect Carlos Contreras as early as 1925, together with othe ...
on the west, across which is the Álvaro Obregón borough
*Río Becerra on the south and east, across which is Santa María Nonoalco on the south, and Colonia Nápoles
Colonia Nápoles is a '' colonia'' in Benito Juárez, Mexico City in the North central area of the metropolis. Along with Colonia Del Valle, it's among the most representative of Mid-Century neighborhoods of Mexico City.
Location
It is border ...
and Colonia Ampliación Nápoles on the east
Description
San Pedro de los Pinos is a mixed neighborhood with both residential and commercial buildings. Most of the residential buildings date back to the first half of the 20th century, though new apartment buildings are being built in the zone.
The neighborhood has a wide variety of entertainment and commercial buildings, including hotels, restaurants, banks, cafés and gymnasiums.
The colonia has two public parks: Parque Pombo and Parque Miraflores.
In the southern part of San Pedro de los Pinos there is an archaeological site dating to the Mesoamerican postclassic period, known simply as Mixcoac archaeological zone. In this same area, there is a cultural center named "La Pirámide" (the pyramid), where several artistic and sports activities take place.
Metropoli Patriotismo is a large shopping center and mixed-use complex in the neighborhood of .
Avenida Revolución and Patriotismo are landmarks, wide, one-way boulevards through San Pedro de los Pinos that form part of the Circuito Interior, most of which is a controlled-access freeway, but in this section consists of the two surface streets.
History
The area was already populated sincepre-Columbian era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European col ...
as shown by the Mixcoac archaeological site.
During 17th and 18th century, several ranches and haciendas were established here, as well as a bartizan
A bartizan (an alteration of ''bratticing''), also called a guerite, ''garita'', or ''échauguette'', or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging turret projecting from the walls of late-medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th c ...
, the bartizan of San Pedro, which was in the middle of the route going from the center of Mexico City
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towards Mixcoac or San Ángel
San Ángel is a ''Colonia (Mexico), colonia'' (neighborhood) located in the southwest of Mexico City in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Álvaro Obregón borough. Historically it was a rural community called Tenanitla in the pre-Hispanic period. It ...
in the south. The soil here was very fertile, thus, having plenty of groves, mainly pines. Hence the name San Pedro de los Pinos.
Transportation
Public transportation
The area is served by theMexico City Metro
The Mexico City Metro () is a rapid transit system that serves Greater Mexico City, the metropolitan area of Mexico City, including some municipalities in the State of Mexico. Operated by the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC), it is the Lis ...
and EcoBici bikeshare. Although not in the neighborhood proper, San Antonio
San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...
metro station is within walking distance.
Metro stations
* San Pedro de los Pinos.
References
Further reading
* {{Mexico City neighborhoods Benito Juárez, Mexico City