Coyoacán
Coyoacán (DF) is a delegación (district, administrative division) of Mexico City. It is located at the south of the city: latitude 19° 21 ' north, longitude western 99°10.
Coyoacán is an old village prehispanic, old capital of the Tépanèques, which was then added at the city during its expansion. Its center town is a tourist district which keeps a certain charm. There is a market of craft industry Saturday morning.
History
August 1st
Toponymy
Coyoacán can result in " the place of the Coyote S " or " where there are coyotes ".
Places and monuments
Like buildings to be visited in Coyoacán:- the house of Frida Kahlo
- the house of Trotski where he lived the last years of his life.
- the church of the holy design: Iglesia of Santa Concepción
- Los viveros : large seedbeds of Mexico City.
- Put it of Alvarado: the archeologist Zelia Nuttall lived there and Octavio Paz died there; it is since 2006 the seat of the national record library.
University
In the south of the district one finds Ciudad Universitaria, site principal of UNAM.
External bonds
- Official site
- Baxtion
- total Coyoacán
- MexicoCity in Spanish
- MexicoCity in English
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