The
capital of Mexico is located in a valley of Mexico City. The city was
founded by Aztec tribe of Nahua on March, the 18th in 1325. And soon
it became the powerful and violent capital of a developing empire.
It has found the reflection in the museums.
In 1519 Spanish conquistadors under the head of Ernan Cortes entered these
places. They invaded local natives’ settlement on August, the 13th
in 1521, and already in 1524 the city was restored as the capital of vice-king
of New Spain. It was the political and cultural centre of Mexico where
control points of Guatemala, Yucatan, Cuba, Florida and Philippines were
settled on. National Cathedral and basil of Sacred Maiden Guadalupe had
been constructed during this period. The Spanish domination proceeded up
to 1808 when Napoleon invaded continental Spain. In 1810 revolt under the
head of a catholic priest father Miguel Hidalgo-I-Castillo begun. War for
independence from the Spanish sovereignty ended up with Mexico City became
a residence of the first governor of the Mexican Empire, Augustine de Iturbide.
In 1824 owing to adoption of new constitution, the new government was elected
and the Federal District of Mexico City was organized in 1848. Museums give the detail information of the events.
By the end of XX century the capital had gone through rapid growth of the
population. In fact in 1950 the city housed altogether about 3 million
residents. And now it is twenty. Today in the capital the reconstructed
Worldwide Shopping centre of Mexico City and a skyscraper representing
the highest building of Latin America are settled down. The capital takes
the eighth place in a rating of ten greatest cities of Northern America.
It is one of the major cultural and economic centre, which according to
the international assessments, takes the fourth place on economic potential
and on efficiency of capital investments.
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