Gustavo A. Madero (Mexico City)

The GAM (Gustavo A. Madero) is one of the sixteen territorial demarcations of Mexico City. Its territory covers 94.07 km², which corresponds to 6.1% of the territory of the country's capital, and is located in the northern part of it. It is the second most populous municipality in the city, only after Iztapalapa.

Around the 15th century, the Mexicas built the causeway that leads to Tepeyac hill, where they worshiped the goddess Tonantzin. In the New Spanish era, the Virgin of Guadalupe began to be venerated, turning the place into the Villa de Guadalupe and, ultimately, one of the most important religious centers in the world to which millions of parishioners come, especially every December 12. Since 1853, the demarcation was the municipality of Guadalupe Hidalgo until 1931, when it was renamed Villa Gustavo A. Madero.

It has numerous sports centers, such as Deportivo 18 de Marzo, Deportivo Oceanía and Deportivo Hermanos Galeana; one of the main headquarters of the National Polytechnic Institute and campuses of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and recreational spaces, such as the San Juan de Aragón Forest.

Toponymy

Its current name was given in honor of Gustavo Adolfo Madero, a politician who participated in the Mexican Revolution, brother of Francisco I. Madero. Previously the area was known as Tepeyac (on the nose of the hill) and Guadalupe Hidalgo, due to the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe and in honor of Miguel Hidalgo.

Geography

Location

The territorial demarcation is located in the extreme northeast of Mexico City. It has a land area of 95 km². It borders to the north with the municipalities of Tlalnepantla de Baz, Ecatepec de Morelos, Coacalco de Berriozábal and Tultitlán, in the State of Mexico; to the southeast with the Venustiano Carranza mayor's office and to the south with the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office; to the east with the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, also in the State of Mexico; and to the west with the Azcapotzalco mayor's office.

Its limits are marked by important arteries such as: the Anillo Periférico Norte to the north, the Circuito Interior or Río Consulado to the south, Calzada Vallejo to the west, and Valle Alto and 608 avenues, among other minor roads, to the east.

Orography

The territory is located in the Transversal Volcanic Axis, in the sub-province of Lagos y Volcanes del Anahuac. In general, almost all of its terrain is flat with an average of 2240 m s. no. m., with the exception of the northern portion, which houses part of the Sierra de Guadalupe, which it shares with the State of Mexico; its elevations oscillate around 2900 meters. Among its main elevations are: Cerro del Chiquihuite, Cerro del Sombrero or Pico Tres Padres, Cerro del Guerrero, Cerro Santa Isabel and Cerro del Tepeyac.

Hydrography

The territorial demarcation has several channels that are currently almost entirely piped, whose space is currently occupied to pass through various roads. Some of the old rivers now intubated are the following: the Remedios River, the Consulado River, the Guadalupe River and the Santa Coleta River.

Climate

The climate is semi-dry temperate with rains in summer, with an average temperature of 16 °C. The average annual precipitation is 600 ml, starting the rainy season in June and ending in September.

Average climatic parameters of Gustavo A. Madero (1951-2010)
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Temp. max. abs. (°C)	24.6	26.8	29.5	30.2	29.6	29.5	27.7	26.8	26.3	26.3	24.0	23.2	24.0
Average temperature (°C)	21.0	23.0	25.7	26.5	27.3	25.6	24.2	24.4	23.7	23.1	22.2	21.2	24.0
Average temperature (°C)	13.1	14.7	17.2	18.5	19.4	18.6	17.7	17.7	17.3	16.4	14.7	13.5	18.6
Temp. medium (°C)	5.1	6.5	8.8	10.4	11.6	11.6	11.3	11.0	10.9	9.7	7.2	5.9	9.2
Temp. min. abs. (°C)	-2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	7.0	5.5	7.5	8.0	3.5	4.0	-1.0	-4.0	-4.0
Total precipitation (mm)	47.4	45.2	52.9	58.0	175.7	289.0	256.0	251.9	169.3	106.0	36.8	34.1	621.2
Precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	0.6	0.9	1.1	3.9	6.7	11.5	14.9	12.9	8.9	4.7	1.1	0.8	68.0
Source: National Meteorological Service (Mexico)

Demographics

Population dynamics

Its population in 1995, according to the INEGI, was 1,256,913 inhabitants, which ranked it as the second most populous, after Iztapalapa. Of this total, 571,233 were assumed to be men and 571,233 as women. The population density on urban land of the Gustavo A. Madero mayor's office for the year 1995, amounts to 14,447 inhabitants/km², ranking fifth in Mexico City.

The distribution of the population according to the place of birth for the year 1995 indicated that 77.1% of the population was born in the demarcation, while 21.8% were born in another mayor's office, another federal entity or in another country; the remaining 1.1% corresponds to the population that did not specify their place of origin. In 1995, the population in Gustavo A. Madero was 1,256,913 inhabitants (48.1% men and 51.9% women). Compared to 1995, the population in Gustavo A. Madero decreased.

Cuautepec de Madero, one of the city's popular colonies.

View of the Lindavista colony, one of the mid- and middle-high-class colonies of the city hall.

Watch House in Lindavista

Industrial

Street signs in the Industrial Colony

Ramón Corona Market

Guadalupe Park

Places

Neighborhoods and towns

• Ticomán. Located northwest of the city, on the foothills of the Guadalupe mountain range, it is divided into six demarcations: Candelaria, Guadalupe, La Purísima, La Laguna, San Juan and Guadalupe and San Rafael. In this place archaeological remains of the Mesoamerican preclassic period were found, probably belonging to the otomi culture. Near this place is the famous Cerro del Chiquihuite. Ticomán Avenue, the most important road in the area, divides the neighborhoods of the Lindavista colony, and leads to the whereabouts of the Indios Verdes subway station.
• Guadalupe aqueduct. The name of this middle-class colony is due to the fact that the remains of what was the Guadalupe aqueduct, which was built in the Novo-Hispanic period to transport drinking water from the Tlalnepantla River to the village of Guadalupe. Today the aqueduct no longer works, and it lasts only as a historical and artistic monument, and is a reference point of the area and its homonymous colony.
• Wooden cuautepec. It is located between the Sierra de Guadalupe and the Cerro del Chiquihuite, at the north end of the Gustavo A. Madero Delegation, bordered to the north with the municipality of Ecatepec and the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, of the State of Mexico. Area divided into 2 parts: Lower Barrio and El Barrio Alto.

History

The territory now occupied by the Gustavo A. Madero mayor's office was populated early, according to evidence from the year 1000 BC. C. in El Arbolillo, a site that was very close to the lake; remains of a small farming community and red-stained bone burials were found; this characteristic lasted in the culture of Zacatenco, a primitive town that settled in the same area between the years 100 a. C. and 100 of our era; Painted human remains were found there, often accompanied by offerings: ceramics, statuettes and small clay heads, stone tools, obsidian objects and metals of Olmec origin. The town of Ticomán had a peak around the 5th century, on a peninsula formed by the entrance of the hill into the water; It was a town with a greater cultural advance, which came to develop excellent agricultural techniques, as evidenced by the lands to sow on the hill, tilled by them; In this place, instruments for tanning skins, artistic ceramics, marine objects, and pieces of jade and serpentine were found.

In the 15th century, the Mexicas had already taken over the territory of Tepeyac; They were the ones who built the causeway -now known as Tepeyac- with dam functions, to retain the fresh waters of large rivers that flowed into the western part of Lake Texcoco.

Temple of the Pocite in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Due to the location on the banks of the extinct Lake Texcoco, in the current demarcation the first human settlements are recorded around 1500 BC. C. in Zacatenco and later in the Ticomán area, with some Chichimeca settlements, these being in the Early Preclassic and in the areas occupied by Homo sapiens sapiens in the Basin of Mexico. In the 15th century, the Mexicas built the Mexico-Tepeyacac road (today the Mysteries Road), which connected Mexico-Tenochtitlan with the sanctuary of the goddess Tonantzin on the Tepeyacac hill. This was a sacred site since pre-Hispanic times, in this delegation is the Mecca of Catholicism in America: La Villa, to which the ancient Mexicans went since then to venerate Tonantzin. According to the Pilgrimage Strip, at this point the Mexica ritually lit the fourth New Fire.

In the New Spain period, the sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe was an important religious settlement with a mainly Spanish cult and to which indigenous people came because they found sculpted vestiges of the goddess Tonantzin (which remained until the 19th century). The Mexico-Veracruz route had the Villa de Guadalupe as the entry and exit point and obligatory passage, where houses and summer residences had already been established since the New Spanish period. Travelers and merchants who entered and left the capital of New Spain had the sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe as an obligatory stopping point.

In 1828 the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (traditional name of the town) was given the title of city. In 1848, in what is now Gustavo A. Madero, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed. In 1931 it became a delegation of the Federal District with the name of Villa de Gustavo A. Madero, which in 1941 changed to the Gustavo A. Madero Delegation, and since October 1, 2018, after the Political Reform of the Federal District, it is called Gustavo A. Madero Mayor's Office.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Mexico City was modernizing its urban services (electrification and local transport of small buses); however, the trade related to visits to ceremonial centers persisted. At the beginning of the sixties of the 20th century, the Aragón-Peñón de los Baños urban project began, from which the San Juan de Aragón Housing Unit derives; and in subsequent decades, due to the demographic explosion, it began its expansion to the north and east, currently having dozens of popular colonies that share the municipalities of Ecatepec and Nezahualcóyotl.

In the forties of the 20th century, the Lindavista subdivision was built on land in Quinta Pirineos. In the post-revolutionary era, when Plutarco Elías Calles was president, the town was once again granted the title of town, along with the name of Gustavo A. Madero. Starting in the forties, large factories began to be installed on the grounds of the delegation. Industrial development brought with it the growth of popular neighborhoods, including Bondojito, Defensores de la República, Gertrudis Sánchez, La Joya, Nueva Tenochtitlán, Mártires de Río Blanco, Industrial, Martín Carrera and San Juan de Aragón, and residential areas such as Colonia Estrella. (1930s) and Lindavista (1940s).

Following the appearance of Tonantzin in the Cerrito de Tepeaquilla, the first Hermitage of the Virgin of Guadalupe was built. By the 17th century there were 5,000 inhabitants of the place and at that time it was known as "the miracle colony". In this same century the Calzada de los Misterios was built.

During the 18th century, the indigenous people of Santiago Tlatelolco rented their lands from San Juan to Mr. de Aragón, from which it derives its name. In this same century, the Guadalupe Aqueduct was built, and on June 24, 1751, it acquired the name of Villa de Guadalupe; For this project and creation of the new town, the engineer Felipe Fermang and the architects Marino Álvarez and Eduardo de Herrera intervened, who determined to demolish several houses that obstructed the view of the Church, informing that the Villa could be extended to the south.

In the 19th century it was declared a City (1822). As of 1853 it became a municipality again, which was called Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The installation of the Mexico-Veracruz railway, which was laid in the center of the Hunt for Mysteries, affected a part of the 15 monuments it had. In this same area, the first railway station was erected at the beginning of the 20th century, in Mexico City, where it is expected to be used for recreation or a museum, since it was recently restored and rescued as a heritage of built architectural heritage.

The New Basilica of Guadalupe, built by the architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, was completed in 1976. It should be noted that an average of 20,000 people arrive at this Basilica daily.

Politics

It is a mayor's office that from 1998 to 2018 was governed by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). In the 2015 local elections, this party had a dispute with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party that will govern until 2024.

Chronology of delegates, delegation heads and mayors

Delegate (delegational chief)	Government period	Political party
Jesus Flowers Palafox	1997-1998
Jesus Zambrano Grijalva	1998-1999
Victor Quintana Silveyra	1999-2000
Joel Ortega Cuevas	2000-2003
Octavio Flores Millán	2003-2004
Patricia Ruiz Anchondo	2004-2006
Francisco Chíguil Figueroa	2006-2008
Luis Meneses Murillo	2008-2009
Victor Hugo Lobo Román	2009-2012
Nora del Carmen Barbara Arias Contreras	2012-2015
Victor Hugo Lobo Román	2015-2018
Francisco Chíguil Figueroa	2018-2024

Source: State and local governments, State Electoral Councils and institutes. INAFED. Encyclopedia of Municipalities and Delegations of Mexico.

Public Safety

This mayor's office suffers a high incidence of crimes of robberies against passers-by and vehicles. According to the INEGI website, the statistics from 2013 to 2014, robberies at banking institutions increased by 100%, robberies at businesses increased by 30% and vehicles 3%

Festivities

The most important festivity is the one that is celebrated every December 12, in honor of the Marian apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The demarcation receives millions of visitors from all over the country, who arrive on pilgrimages two or three days before.

Another great festivity is the one held every year by the inhabitants of the San Juan de Aragón Town, where they recreate the famous battle in which General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French army on May 5, 1862.

Infrastructure

Educational

UNAM

• National Preparatory School 9 "Pedro de Alba" of UNAM
• National Preparatory School 3 «Justo Sierra» of UNAM
• Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades, Plantel Vallejo de la UNAM

IPN

UACM Campus in Cuautepec

IPN

• Adolfo López Mateos of the National Polytechnic Institute, Zacatenco and Ticomán Units.
• Center for Scientific and Technological Studies No. 1 "Lic. Gonzalo Vázquez Vela» of the National Polytechnic Institute.
• Center for Scientific and Technological Studies No. 10 "Carlos Vallejo Márquez" of the National Polytechnic Institute.
• Center for Technological Studies No. 1 «Ing. Walter Cross Buchanan" of the National Polytechnic Institute.
• Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN).
• Escuela Superior de Computo del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (ESCOM).

EMSI

• «Belisario Domínguez» Gustavo A. Madero 1 (SBGDF)
• "Salvador Allende" Gustavo A. Madero 2 (SBGDF)
• «Elena Poniatowska» Gustavo A. Madero 3 (SBGDF)
• Cedex Emilio Bravo
• Cedex Nepal
• Care Center for Students with Disabilities Unschooled Modality

UACM

• Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Campus Cuautepec

TECNM

• Instituto Tecnológico de Gustavo A. Madero I y II

Cetis

• Cetis No. 7
• Cetis No. 30
• Cetis No. 45
• Cetis No. 54
• Cetis No. 55
• Cetis N.o 56
• Cetis No. 166

Baccalaureate College

• Colegio de Bachilleres 2 Cien Metros «Elisa Acuña Rossetti»
• Colegio de Bachillers 11 New Atzacoalco
• Colegio de Bachilleres 9 Aragón

CONALEP

• Conalep GAM I
• Conalep GAM II
• Conalep Aragón

Private institutions

• ICEL University, Campus La Villa
• Centro Universitario Trilingüe, Plantel La Villa / Gustavo a Madero
• Universidad Insurgentes, plantel Norte
• Centro de Estudios Culturales Justo Sierra
• Secondary and Preparatory School Just Sierra
• Makarenko College
• Tepeyac College
• University of Tepeyac
• Colegio Perla S Buck
• Instituto Amado Nervo
• Instituto Oscar González Blakaller
• Plantel Azteca
• Baccalaureate Fundación Azteca
• Colegio Francés Hidalgo
• Colegio Guadalupe

Libraries

• National Library of Science and Technology Víctor Bravo Ahuja (BNCT).- Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n corner Av. Wilfrido Massieu
• Public Library Treasure Blade.- Av. S/n Col Park. Treasure Knife
• La Pradera Public Library.- Pico De Orizaba n.o 152, Col. Prairie
• Public Library Professor Narcissus Bassols.- Av. 604 s/n Between Av. 669 Col. U. H. Narcissus Bassols
• Biblioteca Pública Romero López Velarde.- Guadalupe River and North 84 Col. San Pedro el Chico
• Fray Pedro de Ghent Public Library.- Calzada de Guadalupe n.o 717 Col. Villa de Aragón
• José López Portillo Public Library.- Parque Marìa Luisa, Col. Industrial
• San Pedro Zacatenco Public Library.- Av. Aqueduct n.o 625 Col. San Pedro Zacatenco
• National Progress Public Library.- 15th Street and Monte Alto Col. National progress
• Casa de la Cultura Juventino Rosas, Biblioteca, Consultorio Mèdico.- San Luis Plan n.o 50 Col. Residencial Escalera
• Ludoteca and Lazarus Library Cardenas.- Calle 20 s/n Esq. Central Axis Col. National progress
• Biblioteca Pública Chalma de Guadalupe.- Aguascalientes s/n Col. Chalma de Guadalupe
• Biblioteca Pública Juventino Rosas.- Apango Esq. Apango Col's Third Closed. Felipe Berriozábal
• Makarenjo National Private Library.- Calzada of Mysteries and Corner Euskaro Industrial Colony
• Biblioteca Privada Universidad Justo Sierra, campus 100 Metros, Aje Central Lázaro Cárdenas n.o 1150 Col. New Industrial Vallejo
• Secondary Private Library, Preparoria and Universidad Justo Sierra, Campus Acueducto. Av. Aqueduct n.o 914 Col. Laguna Ticomán, C. P. 07340
• Private Library Universidad Justo Sierra Medicina.- Candelaria Ticoman, 07310
• Library of the Autonomous University of Mexico City, Cuautepec Campus

Transportation

Metro in the demarcation 1

Station	Line
Green Indians
Deportivo 18 de Marzo
Potrero
The Race
Martin
Talisman
Bondojito
Consulate
Polytechnics
Oil Institute
North Buses
Mysteries
Valle Gómez
Eduardo Molina
Aragon
Oceania
The Villa-Basilica
Lindavis
Sports Oceania
Aragon Forest
Villa de Aragón

• • Metrobus in demarcation

Metrobus at Green Indian Station 1.

• Green Indians, line 1 and 7.
• Deportivo March 18, lines 1 and 6.
• Euzkaro, line 1.
• Potrero, line 1.
• The Race, line 1.
• Tenayuca, line 3.
• San José de la Escalera, line 3.
• National progress, line 3.
• Three Anegas, line 3.
• Jupiter, line 3.
• La Patera, line 3.
• Poniente 146, line 3.
• Montevideo, lines 3 and 6.
• Poniente 134, line 3.
• Poniente 128, line 3.
• Magdalena de las Salinas, line 3.
• Coltongo, line 3.
• Cuitláhuac, line 3.
• Hero of Nazareth, line 3.
• Hospital La Raza, line 3.
• The Race, line 3.
• Rio de los Remedios, line 5.
• 314- New's Divine Memorial, line 5.
• May 5, line 5.
• Vasco de Quiroga, line 5.
• Coyol, line 5.
• Preparatory 3, line 5.
• San Juan de Aragón, lines 5 and 6.
• Guadalupe River, line 5.
• Talisman, line 5.
• Victoria, line 5.
• East 101, line 5.
• Rio Santa Coleta, line 5.
• Consulate, line 5.
• Lindavista-Vallejo, line 6.
• Oil Institute, line 6.
• San Bartolo, line 6.
• National Polytechnic Institute, line 6.
• Riobamba, line 6.
• La Villa, line 6.
• From Mysteries, Line 6 and 7.
• Hospital Infantil La Villa, line 6 and 7.
• Delegation Gustavo A. Madero, line 6 and 7.
• Martin Carrera, line 6.
• Hospital General La Villa, line 6.
• Grand Canal, line 6.
• German houses, line 6.
• Pueblo San Juan de Aragón, line 6.
• Loreto Fabela, line 6.
• 484, line 6.
• 414, line 6.
• 416 Poniente, line 6.
• 416 East, line 6.
• Deportivo los Galeana, line 6.
• Extension Providence, line 6.
• Fire volcano, line 6.
• The Prairie, line 6.
• College of High Schools 9, line 6.
• Francisco Morazán, line 6.
• Villa de Aragón, line 6.
• Garrido, line 7.
• Talisman Avenue, line 7.
• Necaxa, line 7.
• Excélsior, line 7.
• Robles Domínguez, line 7.
• Key, line 7.
• Mysteries, line 7.

• • Trolebus in demarcation

There are four trolleybus lines that serve this city hall:

• • Line 1: Zero Corridor Emissions-Central Axis
  • Line 4: Metro Boulevard Puerto Aéreo - Metro El Rosario
  • Line 5: Saint Philip of Jesus - Metro Hidalgo
  • Line 8: Polytechnic Circuit

• • Foreign transport

The Central Bus Terminal of the North is located within its territory, the second station by size, although the first by number of lines and passengers transported. From here you can board transportation to almost any destination in the country, since the main passenger auto transport lines operate within it.

Places of interest

Map of the most representative tourist sites of the city of Gustavo A. Madero

Religious

Basilica of Guadalupe.

Ancient Basilica of Guadalupe.

Guadalupe aqueduct.

Temple of Mexico City (Mormon)

Parish of the Precious Blood of Christ

Planetario Luis Enrique Erro

• Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which includes the Basilica of Guadalupe, Temple of Pocito, Cerro del Tepeyac, the Pantheon of Tepeyac and the Plaza de las Americas.
• Cuautepec (Federal Distrito) Parish of the Precious Blood of Christ, with 230 years old.
• San Cayetano parish (located in the Lindavista colony).
• Temple of the Church The Light of the World (Insurgents and Central Axis, Col. Vallejo).
• Sacred Heart of Jesus parish (located in the National Progress Colony)
• Parish Santiago Apostle Atepetlác (located in the neighborhood of Santiago Atepetlac)
• Parish The Resurrection of the Lord (located in the 2nd section of Saint John of Aragon)
• Parish Mary Mother of Jesus (located in the 2nd section of Aragon)
• Parish of Saint Philip of Jesus (Located in the San Felipe de Jesus colony)
• Temple of Mexico City of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Last Day Saints (Mormones) Av 510 San Juan de Aragón
• Parish of Divine Providence (located in Providence Colony)
• Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Relief (located in the Rio Blanco Colony)
• Parish of Our Lady of Merced (located in the Heroes colony of Cerro Prieto.

Recreational and sports

• Deportivo 18 de marzo: ubicado en la Av. Insurgentes and Ricarte, Col. Tepeyac Insurgentes. In this sport, sports and cultural activities are carried out, highlighting among its facilities the football field with graphs and the pool of Olympic, roofed and nailed measures. It also has two party rooms for social events.
• Miguel German sports park: located in the Col. Lindavista, the main entrance is on Av. Lindavista and Cuzco Street.
• Deportivo Francisco Zarco, is located north with Av. 503, south with Gran Canal, Av. Talisman and East 101 in the Colonia San Juan de Aragón 1era Secc. In this sport there are various sports activities since it has 5 football fields with stands, two tracks of athletics, 6 courts of Básquet bol, a baseball field, a mini football field, a gym for boxing, dressing and regaderas.
• Deportivo Hermanos Galeana: located in Av. José Loreto Fabela s/n Col. San Juan de Aragón 7.a section. In this sports unit, football, basketball, aerobics, athletics, fast football, football and swimming are practiced. It has 20 football pitches, 4 fast football pitches, athletic stadium, baseball stadium, 2 baseball fields, 8 volleyball courts, 16 basketball courts, 4 tennis courts, Olympic pool and gym, public place. Also here are regular circuses, the Expo de Piel y Calzado de León Guanajuato and various fairs.
• Morelos Sports Unit of Clinic 23 is located in Calzada San Juan De Aragón No. 311 Col. San Pedro El Chico C.P. 07480, Gustavo A. Madero, CDMX. Inside the Clinic of the Mexican Institute of Social Security. There is a wide range of activities for children, youth and adults in very complete facilities at affordable prices.
• Zoo of San Juan de Aragón: Av. Loreto Fabela s/n Col. San Juan de Aragón, where we can find the species of Mexican animals in danger of extinction, as well as animals from the 5 continents.
• Ciudad Deportiva Carmen Serdan: located in Av. State of Mexico Col. Chalma De Guadalupe behind the back of the Northern Reclusorio
• El Cantil Ecological Park.
• Copos de Nieve Park, located on the slopes of the Sierra de Guadalupe
• Mestizaje Park next to the Guadalupe Aqueduct. Inside the park is the monument to the Green Indians.
• Plaza Adalberto Martínez Resortes, located opposite the Rio Blanco Market.
• San Juan de Aragón Forest, which is one of the most important lungs in Mexico City, suitable for walking and exercising, running or cycling. It has a spa and a place of child coexistence. Within its wide wooded area is small palapas where you can enjoy family celebrations in open space, a cool place to break with the daily routine and live with the whole family.
• Recreational park Margarita Maza de Juárez. (located in 100 meters)
• Huitlacoche Reacreative Park (Avenida de los Remedios)
• Morelos Clínica 23 (Av.San Juan de Aragón - Aje 5 Norte Esq Av. Ing. Eduardo Molina - Aje 3 Oriente)
• Deportivo Oceania (It is located in Avenue Oceania 602, corner Tahel, colony Pensador Mexicano, Venustiano Carranza)

Artistic training

• Escuela de Initición Artística n.o 3 INBA (Huitzilihuitl n.o 30, Col. Santa Isabel Tola)

School for initial level artistic training in the areas of music, dance (classical, contemporary and folkloric), theater and plastic arts for children, youth and adults categories for the development of basic expression skills, through the management of basic elements of artistic languages. It is located where the French Hidalgo University Center was previously located.

Cultural

• Planetarium Luis Enrique Erro (IPN)
• Adolfo López Mateos del IPN Zacatenco, Col. Zacatenco.
• Museo de la Cera en la Calzada de los Misterios
• Guadalupe Basilica Museum:
• The cemetery and the Tepeyac site museum in the Basilica of Guadalupe. It is the only fields of the built virrenal period that still remains open thus fulfilling the functions for which it was created. His story begins in the early years of the 18th century closely linked to the chapel of the hill and to the house of annexed spiritual exercises; he was chosen by the devoted relatives of the Virgin Mary to bury her deudos. In 1859 he remained under the administration of the capital city council, 12 years later when cemeteries located in the urban boundaries were closed, it was determined that those of the village of Guadalupe replaced them.
• Geology Museum of the National Polytechnic Institute.
• Pie of the Natural History Museum.
• Museo del Drenaje Profundo de Ciudad de México.
• Railroad Museum.
• Centro Cultural Futurama
• Museum of Mormonism in Mexico, located at Av 510 in San Juan de Aragón.
• Within the Gustavo A delegation. Madero is the Guadalupe Aqueduct dating from the 17th century, which runs 7 km long. Currently this area after its rehabilitation in the colony of the same name is used as a sports corridor, which is cared for and protected by the neighbors and users of the place

Theatres

• Teatro «Morelos».
• Tepeyac Theatre.
• Teatro «25 de Julio».
• Outdoor Theatre «Adalberto Martínez, Resorts».
• Teatro «Sara Pérez de Moreno».
• Centro Cultural Lindavista (Futurama).
• FARO (Fábrica de Artes y Oficios) Norte Indios Verdes (formerly Cuautepec).
• Casas de la Cultura: Palmatitla, José Martí, José María Velasco, Juventino Rosas, Alí Chumacero
• Centre for Social and Cultural Development (CDSyC).
• Cultural Forum «Cristina Payán».
• Concert hall «Tepecuicatl».
• Outdoor Theatre «Carlos Colorado».

Other facilities

IPN Cyclothesist

Deportivo 18 de Marzo

Green Indian Metro Station

Hospital de La Raza

• Northern Preventive Prison
• We can also find several shopping centers such as: Plaza Lindavista, Plaza Tepeyac, Plaza Torres Lindavista, Pavilion Ticomán, La Plaza Oriente and Parque Lindavista.
• Factory of Arts and Crafts (FARO) Green Indians, located in the Col. Santa Isabel Tola, which has as its general objective to provide artistic training through free workshops, as well as quality and free cultural goods and services. This is an inclusive space that promotes the cultural development of the community and the full exercise of cultural rights, giving place to the various expressions of arts and cultures. In his proposal the Faro Indios Verdes seeks to combine the arts and crafts with ecology, seen as an indispensable culture in an area of Mexico City with a marked industrial accent
• Another place to visit in this demarcation is the famous Tianguis de la San Felipe founded in 1967, in the colony "25 de Julio" to the northwest of the Federal District. As a simulated market of old irons and used shoes, today Saint Philip of Jesus has become a Sunday tianguis of more than 30,000 merchants and a motif of recreation, ride and shopping of about 200 thousand visitors coming from various neighbouring states of the capital. With about 9 ha, this market is characterised by the variety of items offered in it (artesanias, furniture, clothes, appliances, etc.) and low prices, as well as being located at a nerve point in the Mexican capital.

Offices of the Oil Institute in Lindavista

Colonia Vallejo and Peralvillo, two colonies of a popular character within the limits of the delegations Gustavo A. Wood and Cuauhtémoc

International relations

Twinnings

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Agreements

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