Description[ edit ] Gustavo Vaca created this center of the Federal District of Mexico City, the delegation comprises its historic and cultural center. A fairly large percentage of the population is either over 60 years of age and over half of residents are either single or living with a partner. The borough contains only seven percent of all housing units in the city. Those who do live here are mostly employed in services Because it is the oldest part of Mexico City, with buildings which are centuries old, deterioration is an ongoing concern.
Currently, at least inhabited buildings in twelve colonias have been listed as in danger of condemnation, due to structural damage caused by sinking into muddy soil of the former lakebed.
These are mostly located in the historic center and the colonias immediately surrounding it. While the colonia does not have the highest crime rate in the city with There are few stable neighborhoods, where people live and raise children allowing for street vending, squatting, and takeover of public spaces by drug addicts, drug dealers and prostitutes.
Seven of the borough's 34 colonias have been ranked in the top 10 most lawless in the city by the Secretary of Public Safety of Mexico City, [11] with a few, such as Tepito , are infamous for being so. The influx brings in , vehicles to circulate its streets each day, with traffic jams, especially in and near the historic center nearly a daily occurrence. Tenochitlan was founded on a marshy island in Lake Texcoco.
It was divided into four capuillis or neighborhoods centering on the Templo Mayor. This temple's ruins are located very close to the modern main square or Zocalo today. The Cathedral was built over a portion of the sacred precinct teocalli of the destroyed Templo Mayor, the National Palace was built over Moctezuma 's New Palace and the Zocalo was built over what was an open space near the sacred temple space.
