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Boy's Town, (or "La Zona" (en: the Zone) as it is known in Spanish), is a commercial district in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving primarily as a "zone of tolerance" in the city for legal prostitution, and also a variety of other nocturnal entertainment. It is a walled compound containing three short east-west streets ...
Municipality of Mapimí. The Mapimí Silent Zone ( Spanish: La Zona del Silencio) is the popular name for a desert patch near the Bolsón de Mapimí in Durango, Mexico, overlapping the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve. It is the subject of an urban legend that claims it is an area where radio signals and any type of communications cannot be received.
13,243. • Town density. 3,600/km 2 (9,400/sq mi) Time zone. UTC-6 ( Central Standard Time) • Summer ( DST) UTC-5 ( Central Daylight Time) Tecalitlán is a town and municipality in the central Pacific coastal state of Jalisco, Mexico. Located just south of Ciudad Guzmán, the population of the municipality was 16,705 as of 2020.
Ciudad Acuña, also known simply as Acuña, (originally Garza Galán, later Villa Acuña) is a city located in the Mexican state of Coahuila, at 29°19′27″N 100°55′54″W and a mean height above sea level of 271 m (889 ft). It stands on the Rio Grande (locally known as the Río Bravo), which marks the U.S.-Mexico border, and offers two ...
The island is about 48 km (30 mi) long and 16 km (9.9 mi) wide, with a total area of 477.961 km 2 (184.542 sq mi). It is Mexico's largest Caribbean island, largest permanently inhabited island, and Mexico's third-largest island, following Tiburón Island and Isla Ángel de la Guarda. Cozumel southeast coast. The population of Cozumel is 88,626 ...
Tlatelolco (archaeological site) Coordinates: 19°27′3.9″N 99°08′15″W. Aerial view of Tlatelolco archeological area. Ruins of the main temple. Tlatelolco is an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City, Mexico, where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of the same name have been found. It is centered on the Plaza de las Tres ...
A map showing the location of the metropolitan areas in Mexico in 2004. Metropolitan areas of Mexico have been traditionally defined as the group of municipalities that heavily interact with each other, usually around a core city, in Mexico. The phenomenon of metropolization in Mexico is relatively recent, starting in the 1940s. [1]
The metropolitan area, Greater Mexico City ('Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México' or 'ZMVM' in Spanish) consists of Mexico City itself plus 60 municipalities in the State of Mexico and one in Hidalgo state. With a population of 21,804,515 (2020 census), Greater Mexico City is both the biggest and the densest metropolitan area in the country.