Valley of Mexico
Highland plateau in central Mexico
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico (Spanish: Valle de México; Nahuatl languages: Anahuac, lit. 'Land Between the Waters'), sometimes also called the Basin of Mexico, is a large natural basin on the highland plateau of central Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the valley was the historical center of several pre-Columbian civilizations including Teotihuacan, the Toltec, and the Aztec Empire, and today is almost entirely occupied by Mexico City, the capital of the modern nation of Mexico. A natural endorheic basin, the Valley of Mexico historically contained five shallow, interconnected lakes called Lake Zumpango, Lake Xaltocan (Nahuatl languages: Xāltocān), Lake Xochimilco, Lake Chalco, and the largest, Lake Texcoco, which at their greatest extent together covered about 1,500 square kilometers (580 sq mi) of the valley floor. When Spanish explorers first arrived in the Valley of Mexico in 1519, it had one of the highest population concentrations in the world with about one million people....
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