Naucalpan

Naucalpan, formally Naucalpan de Juarez, is a city and municipality placed simply northwest of Mexico City in the adjoining State of Mexico. The name Naucalpan comes from Nahuatl and method "area of the four neighborhoods" or "4 houses." Juarez became delivered to the official name in 1874 in honor of Benito Juarez. The records of the area starts offevolved with the Tlatilica who settled on the edges of the Hondo River among 1700 and six hundred B.C.E., however it became the Aztecs who gave it its modern-day call when they ruled it from the 15th century until the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Naucalpan claims to be the place where Hernan Cortes rested at the “Noche Triste” as they fled Tenochtitlan in 1520, however this is disputed.

It is the home of the Virgin of Los Remedios, a small image of the Virgin Mary which is strongly related to the Conquest and is stated to had been left right here. Today, the metropolis of Naucalpan is really large than the municipality itself, with part of it extending into neighboring Huixquilucan Municipality. It is a chief middle of industry in Mexico. It is, but, first-rate called the place of Ciudad Satelite, a improvement from the Nineteen Sixties and the web site of the Toreo de Cuatro Caminos bullring, which turned into these days demolished.