Ayapango is a small town and municipality located in the southeast portion of the State of Mexico, southeast of Mexico City. Despite the fact that this municipality is distinctly rural, it falls within the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. The town is known for its "French style" (Spanish afrancesado) houses built early in the last century which have names which reflect something of their characteristics.
Population: 6,361
Latitude: 19° 07' 36.91" N
Longitude: -98° 47' 59.57" W
Popocatépetl (Spanish: [popoka'tepetl̩] ; Nahuatl: Popōcatepētl /popoːkaˈtepeːt͡ɬ/) is an active volcano, located in the states of Puebla, Mexico, and Morelos, in Central Mexico, and lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt.
…Iztaccíhuatl (alternative spellings include Ixtaccíhuatl, or either variant spelled without the accent) ( istakˈsiwatɬ or, as spelled with the x, /iʃtakˈsiwatɬ/), is a 5,230 m (17,160 ft) dormant volcanic mountain in Mexico located on the border be…
Amecameca (formally Amecameca de Juárez) is a town and municipality located in the eastern panhandle of Mexico State between Mexico City and the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanos of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It is located on federal hig…
Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico and was important for human development in central Mexico.
Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias is a city that is municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Chalco.
Milpa Alta is one of the 16 boroughs into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It lies in the southeast corner of the Distrito Federal, bordering the State of Mexico and Morelos. It is the second largest and most rural of all the boroughs wit…
The Paso de Cortés is the mountain pass or saddle between the Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl volcanoes in central México. It thus forms part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, and is a place where the normally southeast-tending continental divide he…
The Faculty of Engineering (Spanish: Facultad de Ingeniería) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is one of the most prestigious engineering schools in Mexico, one of the first of the whole Latin America and one of the most importa…
Chālco [ˈt͡ʃaːɬko] was a complex pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl or confederacy in central Mexico. It was divided into the four sub-altepetl of Tlalmanalco/Tlacochcalco, Amaquemecan, Tenanco Texopalco Tepopolla and Chimalhuacan-Chalco, which were thems…
Tlapacoya is an important archaeological site in Mexico, located at the foot of the Tlapacoya volcano, southeast of Mexico City, on the former shore of Lake Chalco.
Izta-Popo, Zoquiapan and Anexas National Park is a national park on the border of the Mexican states of México, Puebla, and Morelos.
Atlatlahucan /ˌætləˈtlaʊkæn/ (from the Nahuatl word /at͡ɬaˈt͡ɬaʍkan/) is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos.
Totolapan is a municipality in the Mexican state of Morelos.
Acozac (Ixtapaluca) is an archaeological site located in the Municipality of Ixtapaluca, State of Mexico, Mexico.