Everything about Ciudad Nezahualc Yotl totally explained
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (aka Ciudad Neza) is a city and seat of the
municipality of
Mexico State adjacent to the northeast corner of
Mexico's
Federal District: it's thus part of the
Mexico City Metropolitan Area. It was named after
Nezahualcoyotl, the
Acolhua poet and king of nearby
Texcoco, and was built on the drained bed of
Lake Texcoco. The name
Nezahualcóyotl comes from
Nahuatl and it means "
fasting coyote" Ciudad Neza is nearly co-extensive with the municipality making the names interchangeable.
The city
Ciudad Neza has a population of 1,136,300, which is 99.6% of the municipal population of 1,140,528, according to the
INEGI 2005 census. It is the second most
populous municipality in the state of México, just below
Ecatepec, and the eighth largest in the country. It lies at 2,220 meters above sea level.
The city is built on the lakebed of what was
Lake Texcoco. Although operations to drain this lake, among a number of others, was begun shortly after the Conquest by the Spanish (to protect Mexico City from floods), it wasn't achieved until almost 300 years later when finally on March 17,
1900 it was proclaimed a success by President
Porfirio Díaz.In
1945 the Xochiaca dam and the Tequixquiac tunnel were built, allowing for the first communities to be built in the area. Between
1956 and
1961, the number and size of communities had grown, including the community called "Nezahualcóyotl". In
1963, Nezahualcóyotl became the governing head of its own municipality.
The municipality
As municipal seat, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: 17 de Junio, Colonia Gustavo Baz Prada, Escuela Laura Riojas de Colosio and Polígonos. The only significant community in the municipality is Colonia Gustavo Baz Prada, with a population of 3,819 people.
The municipality has an area of 63.44 km² (24.49 sq mi), 81% of which is Ciudad Neza. It borders
Ecatepec de Morelos, the Federal Reserve of Lake Texcoco,
Gustavo A. Madero, D.F.,
Venustiano Carranza, D.F. La Paz,
Chimalhuacán,
Atenco,
Iztapalapa and
Iztacalco of Mexico City.
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