Municipio Chalco
Chalco | ||
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Country | Mexico | |
State | México | |
Seat | Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias | |
surface | 219.6 km² | |
Residents | 310,130 (2010) | |
density | 1,412.1 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | January 31, 1824 | |
Website | municipiodechalco.gob.mx | |
INEGI no. | 15025 | |
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Presidente municipal | Francisco Osorno Soberón | |
Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias |
Coordinates: 19 ° 16 ′ N , 98 ° 54 ′ W
Chalco is a municipality ( municipio ) in the Mexican state of México . The administrative center and largest town of the municipio is Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias ; the next larger towns are San Martín Cuautlalpan , San Mateo Huitzilzingo and San Gregorio Cuautzingo . The approximately 220 km² large community had 310,130 inhabitants in 2010, of which a little more than half are based in the main town.
The name Chalco comes from Nahuatl ( challi "edge, bank") and means "on the lake shore". Chalco is in close proximity to Mexico City and borders on the municipios Ixtapaluca , Valle de Chalco Solidaridad , Temamatla , Cocotitlán , Tenango del Aire , Juchitepec and Tlalmanalco .
history
Tradition has it that the original Nahua inhabitants of Chalco, the Chalcas , came from the mythical region of Chicomóztoc , which some equate with Tollan , today's Tula . Probably immigrated in the 13th or 14th century, they fought armed conflicts with the aspiring Aztecs for a long time, which culminated in the flower wars and the conquest by the Aztecs under Montezuma I in 1465.
The Spanish conquerors Pedro de Alvarado and Bernardino Vázquez de Tapia were envoys on their way to Tenochtitlán in the autumn of 1519 . Chalco lay on their way there. They were the first Europeans to visit the city. When the Spaniards later waged a war against the Aztecs , the Chalcas (residents of the city) formed an alliance with the conquistadors . As loyal allies of the Spaniards, they played no small part in the fall of the Aztec Empire. After the victory of the Spaniards, Hernán Cortés claimed Chalco as an encomienda for himself.
In 1824 the municipality was established, but its borders have shifted several times since then.
Sons and daughters
- Vicente Mendiola Quezada (1900–1986), architect and painter
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernal Díaz del Castillo: History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1988, p. 206
- ^ Bernal Díaz del Castillo: History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1988, p. 400
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Chalco (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Chalco (Spanish; PDF)