Iztacalco

Infobox Settlement
name = Iztacalco
settlement_type = Delegación


image_caption = Borough's main office

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mapsize = 200px
map_caption = Iztacalco within the Federal District
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Mexico
subdivision_type1 = Federal entity
subdivision_name1 = D.F.
seat = Río Churubusco y Avenida Té. Col. Ramos Millán
leader_party = PRD
leader_title = Jefe delegacional
leader_name = Erasto Ensástiga Santiago
established_title = Established
established_date = 1928
named_for = Pre-Columbian city
area_magnitude = 1 E+7
area_total_km2 = 23.17
area_urban_km2 =
area_footnotes = Cite web|title=Delegación Iztacalco|url=http://www.siege.df.gob.mx/estadistico/pdf/monografias/izc.pdf|publisher= [http://www.siege.df.gob.mx/ Sistema de Información Económica, Geográfica y Estadística] |type=pdf|language=Spanish|accessdate=2008-09-18]
population_total = 395025
population_density_km2 = auto
population_footnotes =
elevation_footnotes =
elevation_m = 2235
elevation_max_m =
elevation_min_m =
latd = 19
latm = 23
lats = 43
latNS = N
longd = 99
longm = 05
longs = 52
longEW = W
timezone = Central Standard Time
utc_offset = -6
timezone_DST = Central Daylight Time
utc_offset_DST = -5
postal_code_type = Postal codes
postal_code = 08000 – 08930
area_code = 55
website = http://www.iztacalco.df.gob.mx

Iztacalco is one of the 16 "delegaciones" (boroughs) into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It is located in the east central part of the district, bounded to the north by Venustiano Carranza, to the west by Benito Juárez, to the south by Iztapalapa, and to the east by the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl in the State of México. It is the smallest borough of the sixteen which comprise the district with a land area of only 23.3 square kilometers (9.0 square miles). The borough has a population of approximately 400,000.

It contains the Benito Juárez International Airport airport, the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (or in English "Rodríguez Brothers Racetrack") and numerous popular neighborhoods including the Rodeo, the Agrícola Oriental, Campamento Dos de octubre, Pantitlán and Unidad Santiago.

History

Iztacalco was occupied relatively late, due to its position in the middle of historic Lake Texcoco. Its first inhabitants came to extract salt from the lake. During the Mesoamerican Post-Classical Period, fell under the power of the Lord of Texcoco, a member of the Aztec Triple Alliance. After the fall of Tenochtitlan to the Spanish, Iztacalco was occupied by Franciscan missionaries, who founded a monastery dedicated to Saint Matthew in the middle of the lake.

References

External links

*es icon [http://www.Iztacalco.df.gob.mx Delegación Iztacalco] Official site