San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico
San Andrés Míxquic
San Andrés Mixquic is a town of 13,310 people in Mexico City, Mexico.
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About San Andrés Mixquic
San Andres Míxquic is a community located in the southeast of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City) in the borough of Tláhuac. The community was founded by the 11th century on what was a small island in Lake Chalco. “Míxquic” means “in mesquite” but the community's culture for most of its history was based on chinampas, gardens floating on the lake's waters and tied to the island. Drainage of Lake Chalco in the 19th and 20th century eventually destroyed the chinampas but the community is still agricultural in nature, despite being officially in the territory of Mexico City.
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History
The community of Mixquic was most likely founded around the 11th century by people who migrated here from Xochimilco. In the pre-Hispanic period, Mixquic was a small island in Lake Chalco, around which the inhabitants built chinampas or floating gardens. Originally the community was an independent dominion whose rulers claimed Toltec descent and patronized the god Quetzalcoatl, but because of its location in prime chinampa territory, it was subsequently subdued by Xochimilco, Chalco, Azcapotzalco and finally Tenochtitlan in 1432. Bernal Diaz del Castillo describes Mixquic in his True History of the Conquest of New Spain as full of white towers and temples and was initially named by the Spaniards “Venezuela” for its similarity to Venice. Hernán Cortés subdued this area on 20 May 1521, after which soldiers from Mixquic helped subdue Tenochtitlan, with which they had had bad relations.
During the colonial era, this area was initially under direct control of the Spanish Crown. Later it became an encomienda, and remained so until the 17th century. Between 1536 and 1563, the monastery of San Andres Apostol was constructed here by friars Jorge de Avila and Geronimo de San Esteban. The community of Mixquic became the ecclesiastical seat for the surrounding area.
From the History section of San Andrés Mixquic on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Mexico City International Airport (MEX) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 26 km away.
- Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias 8 km northeast, about 8 min by car
- Ixtapaluca 13 km northeast, about 13 min by car
- Xochimilco 15 km west, about 15 min by car
- Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl 20 km north, about 20 min by car
- Tlalpan 22 km west, about 22 min by car
- Iztacalco 24 km northwest, about 24 min by car
- Benito Juarez 28 km northwest, about 28 min by car
- Mexico City 28 km northwest, about 28 min by car
- Cuauhtémoc 31 km northwest, about 31 min by car
- Miguel Hidalgo 34 km northwest, about 34 min by car
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- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Alumbrada9Mixquic, Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Parroquia San Andrés Apostol Mixquic, D.F. - panoramio, Carlos Perez Chavez, CC BY-SA 3.0
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