Mixcoac
Mixcoac is a residential district (Spanish: colonia ) in Mexico City and part of the municipality ( Delegación ) Benito Juárez .
The district is further divided into the neighborhoods Nonoalco, San Juan, Extremadura Insurgentes, Mixcoac and Insurgentes Mixcoac. In the north, Mixcoac is bounded by the streets San Antonio, Holbein and Porfirio Díaz; to the east by the Avenida de los Insurgentes; to the south by the Avenidas Río Mixcoac and Molinos; to the west through the Anillo Periférico: Boulevard Adolfo López Mateos.
The name Mixcoac also refers to a river, the Río Mixcoac .
In the neighborhood there is a metro station of the Mexico City subway called Mixcoac .
history
Mixcoac comes from the Nahuatl ( mixtli (cloud), coatl (snake), co (im)) and roughly means cloud snake or place of the cloud snake and indicates the Milky Way. In pre-Columbian times, Mixcoac was a settlement on the edge of Lake Texcoco , which filled a large part of the valley of Mexico .
After the Conquista, Mixcoac initially remained an isolated settlement, like the neighboring settlements of Tacubaya, San Ángel and Coyoacán embedded in agricultural areas ( ranchos ). With the expansion of Mexico City in the 20th century, the old settlement centers were finally incorporated into Mexico City.
Personalities
Well known former residents of Mixcoac include:
- The writer and Nobel laureate in literature Octavio Paz
- The chemist and inventor of the birth control pill Luis E. Miramontes
Coordinates: 19 ° 22 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 99 ° 11 ′ 15.5 ″ W.