Chapultepec Park with Polanco at the right, as seen from Torre Mayor observation deck.

Chapultepec (Chapoltepēc "at the grasshopper hill" in the Nahuatl language) is a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City and has been a special place for Mexicans (see History of Mexico) ever since the Aztecs made a temporary home on its central hill after arriving from northern Mexico in the 1200s. In modern Mexico City Chapultepec Park, consisting of the hill and surrounding land of 1,600 acres has many attractions, including Chapultepec Castle, where Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota of Mexico lived. The castle's interior is as sumptuous as any palace in Europe and houses the National History Museum. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 796 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Chapultepec Metadata This... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 796 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Chapultepec Metadata This... Polanco is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. ... The Torre Mayor dominates this view of Mexico City along Paseo de la Reforma The Torre Mayor is a skyscraper in Mexico City, Mexico. ... Nahuatl ( [1] is a term applied to a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan [2] branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. ... Nickname: Ciudad de los Palacios Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... Mexico is a country of North America and the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. ... Aerial view of the Chapultepec Castle and the Monument of the Heroic Cadets. ...

History

One of the Chapultepec lakes with Casa del Lago at the left and Polanco hotels, residential and offices buildings above it.

Chapultepec Castle and the Monument to the Heroic Cadets

Ritual and domestic objects including funerary urns in the Teotihuacan style from about the 4th century have been discovered by archeologists on Chapultepec. Image File history File links Mexico. ... Image File history File links Mexico. ... Polanco is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. ... Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. ... Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. ... Maya funerary urn For the computing term, see URN. An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered and without handles that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. ... Teotihuacan was the largest Pre-Columbian known city in the Americas, and the name Teotihuacan is used to refer to the civilization this city dominated, which at its greatest extent included most of Mesoamerica. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...

 Mr bills Calss sucks balls The last Emperor of the Toltecs, Huemac was said to have spent his last days in a cave at Chapultepec after the fall of Tula. In the 13th century, it was settled by the Mexica, until a Tepanec alliance including Culhuacan, Xochimilco, and Azcapotzalco drove them out. 

In the days when Tenochtitlán was the island capital of the Aztecs, the city was linked to Chapultepec by a causeway. Aztec chiefs turned the hill and the surrounding forest into a royal retreat. The poet-king Nezahualcóyotl built a palace there in the 1400s, along with an aqueduct to carry spring water to the Aztec capital. A sculpture of Moctezuma I can still be seen (in unfortunately damaged condition) carved into the rock of Chapultepec, not far from Huemac's cave. The Atlantes – columns in the form of Toltec warriors in Tula The word Toltec in Mesoamerican studies has been used in different ways by different scholars to refer to actual populations and polities of precolumbian central Mexico or to the mythical ancestors mentioned in the mythical/historical narratives of the... Huemac (11th century?) was the last king of the Toltec before the fall of Tula/Tollan. ... Tula is a town of about 10,000 in Hidalgo State, central Mexico, some 57 miles to the north north-west of Mexico City. ... The word Aztec is usually used as a historical term, although some contemporary Nahuatl speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. ... The Tepanec are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries. ... Culhuacan or Colhuacan was one of the Nahuatl-speaking pre-Columbian city-states of the Valley of Mexico. ... Xochimilco IPA: (Nahuatl xóchitl = flower; milli = cultivated field) is one of the sixteen delegaciones within Mexican Federal District. ... Azcapotzalco (Place of the ants in Nahuatl) is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ... Plan of Tenochtitlan (Dr Atl) Mexico City statue commemorating the foundation of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan (pronounced ) or, alternatively, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was the capital of the Aztec empire, which was built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now central Mexico. ... The Aztecs is a collective term used for all of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples under the control of the Mexica, founders of Tenochtitlan, and their two principal allies, who built an extensive empire in the late Postclassic period in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Central Mexico. ... Moctezuma Ilhuicamina, or Moctezuma I (also known as Montezuma I) (the surname meaning solitary one who shoots an arrow into the sky) was born to Huitzilihuitl, the second Aztec Emperor. ...

Spanish King Carlos V declared the zone a nature reserve in 1537. During the Spanish colonial era, the Viceroys of New Spain had their palace atop Chapultepec, demolishing Pre-Columbian structures in the process. A larger Viceregal castle was constructed on the spot in 1784. Events January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. ... A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

After Mexico won its independence, the old viceregal palace was turned into a military academy in 1833. During the Mexican-American War in 1847, six military cadets, ages 14-20, fought to their deaths against the invading United States Marine Corps; One of them, Juan Escutia, wrapped himself in the Mexican flag and jumped to his death rather than be captured. They are today remembered as Mexico's Niños Héroes – the "Child Heroes" or "Heroic Cadets" (see: Battle of Chapultepec) and are honored with a white marble monument at the entrance to the park. 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants United States Mexico Commanders Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Stephen W. Kearney Antonio López de Santa Anna Mariano Arista Pedro de Ampudia Strength 7,000 - 43,000 18,000 - 40,000 Casualties KIA: 1,733 Total dead: 13,283 Wounded: 4,152 25,000 killed or wounded (Mexican government... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Combatants United States Mexico Commanders Winfield Scott Nicolás Bravo # Strength 13,000 876 cadets, 4000 regulars Casualties 130 killed 703 wounded 29 missing 862 total 1,800 killed and wounded 823 captured 2,623 Total Gen. ...

When Napoleon III launched the French intervention in Mexico and imposed a monarchy in the 1860s, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico set up their residence in the existing Castillo de Chapultepec atop Chapultepec Hill, expanding the Indonesian colonial structure. Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais; both monarchs of the French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland. ... Combatants Second Mexican Empire Second French Empire United Kingdom Spain Austria-Hungary Belgium Republic of Mexico Strength 38,493 French soldiers, 7000 Austro-Hungarian volunteers, 2000 Belgian volunteers ~80,000 Casualties 6,654 French killed and wounded 12,000 Mexican killed and wounded Emperor Maximilian Napoleon III of France Ju... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, (July 6, 1832 - June 19, 1867) was a member of Austrias Imperial Habsburg family. ... Carlota of Mexico (also spelled Carlotta; sometimes rendered as Charlotte) (June 7, 1840 – January 19, 1927) was the wife of regime largely dependent on French troops under the orders of Napoleon III. The only daughter of Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790–1865) by his second wife... Aerial view of the Chapultepec Castle and the Monument of the Heroic Cadets. ...

Chapultepec Park Today

Looking along Reforma from Chapultepec Castle

The hill of Chapultepec and surrounding land are now Chapultepec Park, a popular spot both for locals and tourists. Chapultepec is at one end of Paseo de la Reforma. Download high resolution version (480x640, 55 KB)View along Paseo de la Reforma from Chapultepec Castle. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 55 KB)View along Paseo de la Reforma from Chapultepec Castle. ... Paseo de la Reforma (Reform Avenue) is a 12 km long grand avenue in Mexico City. ...

The park covers 1,600 acres (6 km²) of land, centuries old forest, several small lakes, and landscaped areas with out-door cafes. Chapultepec Zoo is located here, as well as an amusement park, La Feria. Chapultepec Zoo is a Mexican zoo located in Chapultepec; it is one of four zoos near Mexico City. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Chapultepec Castle atop the hill is the National Museum of History. The park also includes the National Auditorium, lots of other museums, including the Modern Art Museum, the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Papalote Children's Museum and the large National Museum of Anthropology and History with perhaps the world's finest collection of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and artifacts. Mr bills Class sucks Balls ada** The Museo de Arte Moderno or National Museum of Modern Art is located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. ... Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum viewed from the back. ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now often viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines of integrative organismal biology. ... Front entrance to the museum. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The cultural areas of Mesoamerica Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Spanish: Mesoamérica) was a geographical culture area extending from central Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica on the south, and, in Mexico, from the Soto la Marina River in Tamaulipas and the Rio Fuerte in Sinaloa on the north. ... The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). ... I archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. ...

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See also

• Chapultepec Peace Accords

The Chapultepec Peace Accords was a treaty which brought peace to El Salvador in 1992 after more than a decade of wrenching civil war. ...

External links

• (Spanish) Page with several articles from the Arqueología Mexicana journal about Chapultepec.
• Satellite picture by Google Maps