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Coyoacán
Coyoacán is a borough in Mexico City. The former village became the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl "Coyōhuahcān," composed of "coyōhuah" and "-cān" (place), and therefore means "place of those who own coyotes", which the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dominated by the Tepanec people. Against Aztec domination, these people allied with the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523.
Good to know
- Population: 614,447.
- Founded: 1928.
- Area: 54.4 sq km.
- Timezone: America/Mexico_City.