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50 unusual facts about Mexico City


1990 Atlantic hurricane season

By August 8, Diana weakened back to a tropical depression near Mexico City.

Agnes Salm-Salm

When Agnes and Felix arrived in Mexico City, the French troops under François Achille Bazaine were leaving, being recalled to Europe to fight against the Prussians.

Antonio F. Coronel

Antonio Francisco Coronel (October 21, 1817 Mexico City – April 17, 1894) served as the fourth mayor of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1854.

Aztec Eagle Warriors

The Aztec Eagle Warriors are a semi-professional ice hockey team in Mexico City, Mexico.

Bob Braithwaite

Qualifying again for the 1968 Games in Mexico City his busy veterinary practice provided him with little time to travel to the few training grounds available.

Bryolymnia viridimedia

It is found from south-eastern Arizona (Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexico City area.

Carlos Cavazo

His father, Roberto, originally from Mexico City, married a belle from the South and owned an energy plant.

Born July 8, 1957, Cavazo is originally from Mexico City where his first band—of which his brother, Antonio Cavazo, was also a member—was called Speed of Light.

Casimiro Castro

Casimiro Castro (24 April 1826 Tepetlaoxtoc - 8 January 1889 Mexico City), was a Mexican painter and lithographer, and is regarded as having been a leading graphic and landscape artist in nineteenth century Mexico.

Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery

By 1859 he was based in Mexico, and in traveling from Chiapas to Mexico City he reported having been robbed of almost his entire fortune, estimated at $50,000.

Craveri's Murrelet

The bird is named for Federico Craveri (1815–1890), an Italian chemist and meteorologist who was a professor at the National Museum in Mexico City, then later at University of Turin in the city of his birth.

Dream Home Heartache

Williams and Demone toured Europe and North America in support of the album, provoking a riot in Mexico City when fans were unable to enter the sold-out venue.

El Papagayo

The graphic novel also explains why Papagayo despises Hex so much; as a young man growing up in the wilderness of Mexico, his family collected and trained parrots which they would later sell to Americans and the rich of Mexico City.

Everybody's Changing

Keane appear on a scene representing a sunset – their performance is broken up with clips of gigs in London, Mexico City and United States.

Filipino people

Starting in the second half of the 16th century, Spanish was the official language of the country for the more than three centuries that the islands were governed through Mexico City on behalf of the Spanish Empire.

During the period of Spanish colonialism beginning in the 16th century, the Philippines was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which was governed and controlled from Mexico City.

Henry Viccellio Jr.

Then took the next two years off and became an Olmsted Scholar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City.

Italika

Italika maintains a motorcycle factory and parts warehouse in Toluca, Mexico, near Mexico City.

J. Marvin Hunter

In 1899, he plunged into the tasks of Two Republics, a bilingual daily in Mexico City.

Jon Riley

Because Riley deserted before the US declared war against Mexico, he was not sentenced to execution following his conviction at the court martial held in Mexico City in 1847.

José Perches Enríquez

He was granted a pension by Colonel Miguel, governor of the state of Chihuahua, so that he could continue his studies in Mexico City, and devote himself to education and giving concerts.

Kareem Larrimore

In 2001, he was suspended for the final preseason game and the first regular season game and fined for missing curfew when the Cowboys traveled to Mexico City to play the Oakland Raiders in the American Bowl.

Karim Malpica

Karim Malpica Torres (born August 24, 1978 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional basketball player.

Kunishige Kamamoto

Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本 邦茂 Kamamoto Kunishige, born April 15, 1944) is a former association football player from Japan, who won the bronze medal with the Japan national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, finishing as the tournament's top scorer with seven goals.

La Gusana Ciega

The band's origin lies in the early 90's when the trio of Daniel, Edwin and Manuel Leyva (bass) began to establish itself in Mexico City's underground rock scene.

Les Robinson

In 1989, Robinson served as an assistant coach for the U.S. World Championship qualifying team in Mexico City, Mexico.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

Luna Park, Pittsburgh

Remnants of the entertainment empire remain, from Mexico City (the park is now called Luna Loca) to Melbourne to Athens (now called Ta Aidonakia).

Marisa Carrasco

Born and raised in Mexico City, Carrasco received her Licentiate in psychology from the National University of Mexico and her Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University.

Minor basilica

The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, is considered the second most important sanctuary of Roman Catholicism, second to the Vatican City on the basis of the number of pilgrims it hosts each year (between 12 and 20 million).

National Pyrotechnic Festival

In 1988, a major fire at the La Merced Market in Mexico City, prompted city authorities to ban the manufacture and wholesale of fireworks in the city limits.

Panamerican Championship 1956

The second edition of Panamerican Championship was played in Mexico City, Mexico, between February 26 and March 18, in 1956; and was won, for the second time, by Brazil.

Pedro Vargas

Pedro Vargas Mata (San Miguel Allende, 29 April 1906 - Mexico City on 30 October 1989) was a Mexican singer and actor, from the golden age of Mexican cinema.

Renee Montgomery

In addition, Montgomery led the USA U-20 National Team to a gold medal during the summer prior to the start of the season at the FIBA U-20 Championship for Women in Mexico City.

Roy Heenan

Born in Mexico City, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 and a Bachelor of Civil Laws degree in 1960 from McGill University where he also joined the Kappa Alpha Society.

Salvador Medina

Salvador Medina Cárcamo (born January 27, 1988 in Distrito Federal) is a Mexican professional football defender who currently plays for Pumas Morelos in the Liga de Ascenso.

Sergio Zyman

Sergio Zyman is of Mexican Jewish heritage and is originally a native of Mexico City.

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which passed through the area, was the main transportation route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Mexico City, Mexico.

Smerinthus saliceti

It is found in valleys and along streamsides from Mexico City north to western Texas, southern Arizona and extreme southern California.

Sunset International Bible Institute

In 1984, the school purchased the "Pink House" for the training of missionaries in the heart of Mexico City.

The Balfa Brothers

They made their first new recordings that year, and played at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Tomás de Mercado

He was either born in Seville or possibly Mexico, where he joined the Dominicans as a young man, becoming lecturer in Arts in the Priory in Mexico City, before returning to study at Salamanca University, where he then became a lecturer in philosophy, moral theology and law.

Tommy Butler

By November 1965, Wilson was in Mexico City visiting old friends Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards.

Tracción Acústica

The album was recorded live on October 28 and 29, 1997, in Mexico City.

Viadeo

The company is headquartered in Paris, and employs a global staff of 450, with offices in London, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Beijing, New Delhi, Mexico City and Montreal.

Vrooom Vrooom

Disc 1 of Vrooom Vrooom is taken predominantly from the same recordings as the 1999 live album Live in Mexico City (originally made available exclusively as a Windows Media Audio download).

Willi Gutmann

He was the artist representing Switzerland at the 1968 Summer Olympics Route of Friendship in Mexico City.

William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock

Augustus Waldegrave (4 February 1803 – November 1825), killed in a hunting accident near Mexico City

Winston M. Scott

Winston Mackinley Scott (1909 - 26 April 1971) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as Mexico City station chief from 1956 to 1969, having joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Yashira Jordán

In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York, Washington DC and Mexico City, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers.


1996 Abierto Mexicano de Tenis

The 1996 Abierto Mexicano de Tenis was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Mexico City in Mexico and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

2003 IIHF World U18 Championships

The Group A tournament was held between 5 and 8 March 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico and the Group B tournament was held between 6 and 9 February 2003 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Affordable Art Fair

First launched in Battersea Park, London, England, in 1999, Affordable Art Fairs now take place in Hampstead (London), Bristol, New York, Seattle, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, Milan, Hamburg, Stockholm, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Álvaro Delgado

Delgado studied journalism at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has worked in the Mexican national newspapers El Nacional, El Universal, and El Financiero, as well as the political newsmagazine Proceso.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Carlos Almaraz

Almaraz was born in Mexico City, but his family moved when he was a young child, settling in Chicago, Illinois, where his father owned a restaurant for five years and worked in Gary steel mills for another four.

Charadra coyopa

It is known only from the holotype specimen from the Mexico City area.

Copachisa

Copachisa (Constructora de Parques de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V.) is an industrial design and construction company based in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, with regional offices in Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Mexico City.

David G. Sorensen

Over the years he has also frequently worked and exhibited in Mexico and is currently represented by Ramon Quiroga in Mexico City, Galeria Vertice and Haus der Kunst in Guadalajara.

Dorothy Stewart

In the winter of 1955, with a grave medical condition, Stewart was accompanied by her dear friend Maria Chabot to Oaxaca, Mexico where Dorothy was quoted as saying, “If I have to be sick, I would rather be sick here where I hear the street sounds of Mexico.” As Dorothy's condition worsened, Chabot moved her to the American British Cowdry Hospital in Mexico City, where Stewart died of a brain hemorrhage on December 24, 1955.

Dory Dixon

He was selected to be a part of the Jamaican weightlifting team for the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Mexico City, Mexico.

El Salón México

The work is a musical depiction of an eponymous dance hall in Mexico City and even carries the subtitle, "A Popular Type Dance Hall in Mexico City." Copland began the work in 1932 and completed it in 1936.

Elsie Lefebvre

There she gathered much political experience, notably as an intern at the Quebec Government House in Mexico City and as parliamentary assistant to French politician Philippe Séguin.

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

International Association of Sports Law

The Congress took place in the main auditorium of Torre del Caballito, at Mexico City which is the place that members of the Senate of the Mexican Republic work in these offices, from Wednesday 14 November to Thursday 15 November 2007.

Joaquín Collar Serra

The plane departed for Mexico City on 20 June 1933, without Madariaga on board, and disappeared in flight, being last sighted in the vicinity of Villahermosa, Mexico.

John Burland

Burland worked also on the construction of a large underground park at the Palace of Westminster and the stabilising of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City.

Juan Molinar Horcasitas

He has worked in news media such as Multivision To Start and the newspapers Reforma and El Universal.

Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007.

Julio Ruelas

Born in Zacatecas, he lived in Mexico City from 1876, later attending the Colegio Militar and the Escuela de Bellas Artes.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Luis Barragán

In 1947 he built his own house and studio in Tacubaya and in 1955 he rebuilt the Convento de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias in Tlalpan, Mexico City, and the plan for Jardines del Bosque in Guadalajara.

Martha Escutia

She holds certificates in Advanced International Legal Studies of Trade and Tariffs from the World Court at The Hague, Netherlands, and in Foreign Investment from the National Autonomous University in Mexico City.

Mexican National League

It was officially ranked as a Class B league in Organized Baseball and included six clubs that represented the cities of Mexico, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Saltillo, and TorreónGómez Palacio.

Mexico at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

Alpine skier Armando Ruiz (LW 11, b. August 27, 1963), a lawyer from Mexico City, competed in the giant slalom, finishing 41st out of 41 finishers in the men's sitting category with a combined two-run adjusted time of 5:43.45, nearly four minutes behind winner Martin Braxenthaler of Germany and nearly three minutes behind 40th-place finisher Xavier Barios of Andorra.

Meztitla Scout Camp School

Nestled under the rocky slopes of the 3,430m Sierra del Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin, in the Yautepec River watershed, the place is about 50 minutes south of Mexico City and 40 minutes from Cuernavaca.

Nuevo Estadio Azul

The Nuevo Estadio Azul is a planned stadium in Mexico City, intended to replace the Estadio Azul, the home of football club Cruz Azul, in 2017.

One Economy Corporation

In addition to the global Beehives in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Turkey, Cameroon, Rwanda, Kenya, Jordan, South Africa, Israel, and Mexico, One Global Economy also operates a computer center in Durban, South Africa and recently partnered with e-Mexico to open a community technology center in Mexico City.

Pontifical Council for the Family

It organizes the World Meetings of Families, convened in Rome, Italy in 1994, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1997, Rome again in 2000, Manila, Philippines in 2003, Valencia, Spain, in 2006, Mexico City, Mexico in 2009, Milan, Italy in 2012, and Philadelphia, United States this coming 2015.

Portuguese immigration to Mexico

Today, the country's largest Portuguese community is concentrated in Mexico City, especially in the Colonia Condesa, the home of many restaurants and bars popular with people of Portuguese descent.

Reuben Jones

Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Richard Streeton

He remained at Reuters for over a decade, where his assignments included the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City; England cricket tours to Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies; and the Monte Carlo Rally.

San Juan de los Lagos

San Juan de los Lagos is the second most visited pilgrimage site in Mexico, after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City .

Sin Mirar Atrás

Sin Mirar Atrás was recorded in studios from cities as Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, Bratislava, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.

Tecalitlán

Tecalitlán is at the heart of the region where mariachi music was developed, and in fact the most famous exponent of that genre, Vargas de Tecalitlán, was founded there in the 1890s (though now resident in Mexico City).

Vuelamex

The airline was established in 2002 by Asclepiodoto Abed, a former worker of TAESA, to operate as low-fare airline, with services between Mexico City and Toluca.

Walter Nicks

Forming a small company, "El Ballet Negro de Walter Nicks," in Mexico, he performed at the Insurgentes Theatre in Mexico City in a production starring Cantinflas; at the Sans Souci in Havana; on television in the Dominican Republic, and at the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan.