Venustiano Carranza (Mexico City)

The Venustiano Carranza territorial demarcation is located in the central-eastern area of Mexico City. It borders to the north with the Gustavo A. Madero mayor's office, to the west with the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office, to the south with the Iztacalco mayor's office and to the east with the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl. This name was given in honor of Venustiano Carranza, revolutionary leader who promulgated the Mexican Constitution of 1917. Its emblem represents the symbol of the Xochiacan people, whose image appears in the Mendoza Codex (or also called Mendocino) where the flower means: &# 34;place of fragrant flowers".

History

The 1970s began and Mexico City was in the midst of a demographic and territorial expansion process, which led the local authorities to edit the jurisdictional profile of the former "Noble, Distinguished and Very Loyal and Imperial Mexico City". This is how on December 29, 1970, several reforms to the law were made.

Location and characteristics

The Venustiano Carranza mayor's office is located in the central-eastern area of Mexico City. It borders to the north with the Gustavo A. Madero mayor's office, to the west with the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office, to the south with the Iztacalco mayor's office and to the east with the State of Mexico.

Its West Longitude is: 99° 02' and 99° 08' and its North Latitude is: 19° 24' and 19° 28'

It is located at an altitude of 2,240 meters above sea level. It has a temperate semi-dry climate, with an average annual temperature of 16° Celsius and annual rainfall of 600 mm.

The limits contained in the Official Gazette, consider the decrees of December 15 and 17, 1898, as well as that of July 27, 1994, issued by the Honorable Congress of the Union. They ratify the Agreements entered into with the states of Morelos and Mexico, in which the Venustiano Carranza Mayor's Office is delimited as follows:

From the center of the Tlatel de los Barcos marker, which defines one of the vertices of the border line in Mexico City and the State of Mexico, it heads southeast along this border line and then southwest along the axis of the Peripheral Ring Project, adapted to the inflections of the limit of the Alameda Oriental, up to its intersection with Vía Tapo.

From here, it continues along the axis of Calle 7 to the center of Majonera de los Barcos, which is located at its intersection with the axis of Avenida Chimalhuacán, from where it separates from this line and continues in a southwesterly direction, along the axis of the channel diverted from the Churubusco River.

Then, continue along the same course to the southwest, cross Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and continue until you find the axis of Avenida Río de la Piedad, following its route to the northwest; It connects with the Miguel Alemán Viaduct, on this axis it continues towards the southeast until its intersection with the axis of Calzada de la Viga, along whose axis it heads north.

Then, it continues in the same direction along the axis of the Anillo de Circunvalación and Vidal Alcocer avenues, up to the Avenida del Trabajo (Eje 1 Oriente), along whose axis it extends northwest, until it reaches Calle de Boleo, by which, on its axis, it continues to the north.

It immediately crosses Avenida Canal del Norte and continues to the northwest along the axis of Avenida Ferrocarril Hidalgo, until it crosses with Avenida Río Consulado, where it heads southeast, following all its inflections, until its intersection with Avenida Oceania.

From this point it continues to the northeast, until it reaches the axis of Vía Tapo; from here it goes southeast until it crosses with Calle 602, to continue from this point in the same direction along the fence that limits the International Airport of Mexico City, until its intersection with the border line of Mexico City with the Estado de México and continue along this heading southeast to the center of the Tlatel de los Barcos landmark, the starting point.

It has an area of 33.42km², which represents 2.24% of the total area of Mexico City. The maximum elevation of this entity is represented by Cerro Peñón de los Baños, which has a height of 2290 meters above sea level.

The mayor's office has a total of 78 neighborhoods, and two native towns made up of 3,220 manzanas. The International Airport of Mexico City, as well as the Alameda Oriente are considered as colonies.

In 2005, the number of its inhabitants totaled 447,459, of which 212,050 were men and 235,409 women.

According to preliminary data from the 2010 Population Census* prepared by INEGI, the population of the delegation decreased with respect to the 2005 figure, to 430,022 inhabitants, of whom 203,204 are men and 226,818 are women, establishing a male relationship -89.6 women, that is, for every 100 women there are 89.6 men. Likewise, the delegation houses 4.8% of the population of Mexico City. The population density is 12,698.7 inhabitants/km² and according to the same census there are 123,010 inhabited houses.

Demographics

Economy and infrastructure

According to data from 2012, 64.5% of economic activity was represented by commercial establishments, which added a total of 19,253 in that year, proving to be the most productive activity. Another important sector is that of services, holding 24.7%. The mayor's office is also home to 42 public markets, among which La Merced, Sonora and Jamaica stand out.

There are 14 medical units in Mexico City in the mayor's office, among which the Balbuena General Hospital and the Moctezuma Pediatric Hospital stand out. There are also 3 additional IMSS medical units and 3 more belonging to ISSSTE.

Aeromar and Aviacsa have their headquarters at the Mexico City International Airport in Colonia Federal, Venustiano Carranza.

Territorial executive directorates

In order to facilitate the operation of the various bodies that make up the mayor's office, powers and attributions were delegated to the heads of the so-called "Territorial executive directorates, which provide technical and operational support to the Venustiano Carranza mayor's office.

These territorial executive directorates (popularly known as "territorial") are "Morelos", "Los Arenales" and "Moctezuma" and are made up of different neighborhoods of the Mayor's Office.

Delegation Heads and Mayors

Venustiano Carranza Town Hall building

Building and explantation of the offices of the City

• Humberto Lugo Gil (1970 - 1973)
• Raquel Ocharan
• Abraham Talavera
• Humberto Mayans Canabal
• Alberto Meléndez Guzmán
• Everardo Gámiz Fernández (1985 - 1988)
• Jesús Martínez Álvarez (1988 - 1988)
• Roberto Armando Albores Guillen (1989-1992)
• Gustavo Robles (1992 - 1994)
• Raúl Torres Barrón (1994 - 1994)
• Ramón Sosamontes Herreramoro (1997 - 1999)
• Iván García Solís (1999 - 2000)
• María Guadalupe Morales Rubio (2000 - 2003)
• Ruth Zavaleta Salgado (2003 - 2005)
• Rocío Barrera Badillo (2005 - 2006)
• Julio César Moreno Rivera (2006 - 2009)
• Alejandro Piña Medina (2009 - 2012)
• José Manuel Ballesteros (2012 - 2015)
• Israel Moreno Rivera (2015 - 2017)
• Mónica López Moncada (2017 - 2018)
• Julio César Moreno Rivera (2018 - 2021) (Julio César Moreno was mayor by brunette from January 25, 2021 until March of the same year)
• José Manuel Ballesteros (interino) (2021)
• Evelyn Parra Álvarez (2021-2024)

List of colonies

Places of interest

Map of the most representative places of the Venustiano Carranza-

In the Peñón de los Baños hill, located in the Venustiano Carranza Delegation, since 1930, a simulation of the battle of Puebla has been carried out, resulting in a very notable staging of said event. In this simulation the battle is represented, personifying the 2 armies, both the Zacapoaxtlas and the French. During the drill, a series of cannon shots are detonated, to give the representation greater prominence. After the battle comes the party, in which there is music and dancing, like in a carnival. In the Venustiano Carranza political delegation is the Carranza Cultural Center, where different cultural workshops are offered, such as dance, sports, such as Tae-Kwon-Do, and even academics, such as English and French. It also has the Venustiano Carranza cinema, where commercial and festival films are shown. In the Venustiano Carranza Mayor's Office, three of the most important markets of CDMX are located:

• Merced Market.
• Sonora Market.
• Jamaica Market.

And places with great appeal, such as:

• General Archive of the Nation.
• Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City.
• H. Union Congress.
• Legislative Museum “Nation Feelings”.
• Council of the Federal Judiciary "San Lázaro"

Historic Sites

• Lecumberri Palace, where President Madero and Vice President Pino Suárez were executed in their rear.
• Arch of the former Jamaican Treasury.
• Mixiuhca village.
• The house where Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (Col. Penitentiary) lived and was trained.
• Pueblo Peñón de los Baños, where the remains of the Woman of the Rock and the famous were found Baths of the Rock, springs of thermal waters that since pre-Hispanic times were used as baths to which they were attributed healing properties.
• Internal Madero, opened by President Madero and remodeled by President Lázaro Cárdenas.

Tributes

The Park of Illustrious Journalists is a space of green areas located a few meters from the Venustiano Carranza mayor's office. The park is surrounded by the following streets: Av. Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Congreso de la Unión, Lucas Alamán, Sur 103 and Cucurpe in the El Parque neighborhood. As a reference, it is located next to the Fray Servando subway on line 4 of the Mexico City subway. The park is popularly known for the different busts in homage to great journalists, such as José Carreño, Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, Ricardo Rocha, Jacobo Zabludovsky, Lolita Ayala and Virgilio Caballero. The most recent addition to this group of select characters is Elena Poniatowska, who received her honor on December 5, 2013. In the same way, and like any other, this park offers possibilities for leisure and recreation.

Historical Monuments

In the territory of the delegation there are around one hundred statues, squares, buildings, gardens, and churches that can be considered monuments that honor the history of Mexico City.

• Busts and monument to Venustiano Carranza: Busts are located inside the sporting Venustiano Carranza in the colony of the Park, and in Axis 1 North corner Grabado, in the Aztec colony. The monument of the Procer, as well as the Constituent Congress of 1917, which is located in the explantation, in Francisco del Paso and Troncoso corner Fray Servando and Teresa de Mier.

• Monument to Simon Bolivar: It is located in the Simon Bolivar Garden, between Rio consulate and Sucre in the Simón Bolivar colony.

• Bust of Francisco Morazán: Located in Francisco Morazán in the Colonia Valentín Gómez Farias.

• Plate and medallions commemorating the shooting of Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez: It is located behind the General Archive of the Nation, in the El Ánfora Garden in the Penitentiary colony.

• Statue of General Felipe Angeles: Located in Axis 1 Congress of the Union, in the colony Felipe Angeles.

• Statue of General Francisco Mujica: It is located on the street Oficios, of the colony 20 of November.

• Majatma Gandhi Bust: Located in the 70th Secondary School, in Calle Gertrudis Sánchez and Leon Trotsky, in the 1st colony of May.

• Ing Sculpture. Heberto Castillo: It is located at Av. Eduardo Molina, Morelos colony, in front of the General Archive of the Nation.

• Estatua del Escritor Martín Luis Guzmán: Located in Av. Fray Servando and Teresa de Mier, inside the Ilustre Journalists' Garden.

• Icarus Sculpture: It is located on the Churubusco River bed, in the López Mateos colony.

• Sculpture of Sebastian: Located on the side of the fountain of Plaza de la Soledad, in the Center colony.

• Monument to the Sovereign Convention of Aguascalientes: It is located in Av. Engineer Eduardo Molina, in Colonia Morelos, in front of the General Archive of the Nation.

• Statue of the child José Luis Ordaz: located in the Garden of the Burning Child, in the Rock of the Baths.

• Bust by Francisco I. Madero: It is located on the left side of the General Archive of the Nation, Penitentiary colony.

• Estatua del Periodista Francisco Martínez de la Vega: Located in the Jardin de los Periodistas Ilustres, in the colony the Park.

• Representation of Chiapanecos Indigenous: It is located in Av. Fray Servando and Teresa de Mier, between Av. Circumvalation and H. Union Congress, Morelos colony.

• Heroic Bomber Sculpture: Located within the Central Fire Station, in the foot of the Viga and Fray Servando and Teresa de Mier.

• Estatua de Don José María Morelos y Pavón: Located in Calle Jarciería and Av. del Trabajo, Colonia Morelos.

• Statue of Charles Chaplin: Located in the Interior Circuit of Rio Consulate and H. Congress of the Union, Col. Gomez Valley.

• Equestrian monument of General Ignacio Zaragoza: it is located in the Camllón de la Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in the colony Aviación Civil.
• Panteón del Pueblo Peñón de los Baños created in 1893.

Museums

• General Archive of the Nation at the Black Palace of Lecumberri.

• Legislative Museum The Sentences of the Nation.

Religious

• Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Most Holy Hostia Sangrante: Located in Zoquipa corner Cucurpe, in the El Parque colony. (Considered as one of the most enigmatic temples in the entire Mexican capital, not only for its decoration but for the history and the great number of faithful who visit it from abroad).
• Temple of Soledad and the Holy Cross: Located in Calle Soledad s/n, Merced Colony - Balbuena.
• Sanctuary of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos: Located in Avenida de los Oficios n.o 49, colony 20 of November.
• Chapel of the Rock of the CenturyXVII: Located in Circuito Interior Río Consulado, Pueblo Peñón de los Baños

Virtual Library

Virtual Library

The Tlatoani in an interactive library installed in what was a McDonnel Douglas DC9-14 model airplane. The donation of the plane was made by the company Aerovías Caribe to the delegation, while for its disassembly and assembly, it had the support of Grupo GEO, SARE and the National Association of Aeronautical Technicians. The Ministry of Public Education donated the Encyclomedia Program and a classroom library, which consists of 3 books. For its part, Grupo Eléktra donated the computer equipment. While the company Microsoft provided a flight simulator and the installation of packages on the computers necessary for encyclomedia consultation.

Sports Centers

• Deportivo Moctezuma. East 158 s/n facing North 25 Col. Moctezuma 2.a Section, has 2 pitches packed one soccer and one fast football and one football floor.
• Deportivo Ramón López Velarde. Av. del Trabajo n.o 47 Col. Morelos.
• Deportivo Felipe Tibio Muñoz. Xochitlan Norte and Xochitlan Sur Col. Arenal 4a. Section.
• Deportivo Ing. Eduardo Molina. Av. Eduardo Molina n.o 81 Col. November 20 extension.
• Deportivo José Ma. Pino Suárez. Viga s/n Esq. Guillermo Prieto Col. Jamaica.
• Deportivo Velódromo Olympic Agustín Melgar. Radamés Treviño s/n Col. Balbuena Garden.
• Deportivo Plutarco Elías Calles. Copper No. 40 Col. Gomez Valley.
• Sports Oceania. Av. Oceania s/n esq. Tahel Col. Mexican Thinker.
• Deportivo Venustiano Carranza. H. Union Congress s/n Col. From the park.
• Sports Park Zaragoza. Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza esq. 77th Street.
• Deportivo Valentín Gómez Farías. Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza.

Forums

• Flying Circus: It is from the few spaces open to the urban tribes.

Houses of Culture

• Casa de Cultura "Venustiano Carranza"
• House of Culture "Heberto Castillo"
• Casa de Cultura "Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez"
• "Centro Cultural Carranza", The most important of the Centro-Oriente de la Ciudad

Transportation

Mexico City International Airport.

Foreign transportation

• International Airport of Mexico City.
• Passenger Bus Terminal of the East.

Subway

Metro Stations within demarcation

Station	Line
Pantitlán
Zaragoza
Gómez Farías
Bulevar Puerto Aéreo
Balbuena
Moctezuma
San Lazaro
Candelaria
Merced
Consulate
North Canal
Morelos
Fray Servando
Jamaica
Hangares
Air terminal
Oceania
Aragon
Eduardo Molina
Valle Gómez
The Viga
Puebla
Sports City
Velódromo
Mixiuhca
Romero Rubio
Ricardo Flores Magón

Metrobus

Metrobus Stations within demarcation

• Mixcalco, line 4.
• Belt rail, line 4.
• Morelos, line 4.
• General Archive of the Nation, line 4 and 5.
• San Lázaro, line 4 and 5.
• Circumvalence, line 4.
• La Merced, line 4.
• Sonora Market, line 4.
• Cecilio Robelo, line 4.
• Hospital Balbuena, line 4.
• Eduardo Molina, line 4.
• Moctezuma, line 4.
• Terminal 1 and 2, line 4 by route north.
• Rio Consulate, line 5.
• North Canal, line 5.
• Deportivo Eduardo Molina, line 5.
• Morelos Market, line 5.