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Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias

Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias
Town & Municipality
Church
Church
Official seal of Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias
Seal
Motto: Government that listens and resolves
Chalco location in State of Mexico
Chalco location in State of Mexico
Communities in Chalco municipality
Communities in Chalco municipality
Coordinates: 19°15′53″N 98°53′51″W / 19.26472°N 98.89750°W / 19.26472; -98.89750
Country  Mexico
State

State of Mexico State of Mexico


Region Amecameca
Metro area Greater Mexico City
Municipal Status January 30, 1824
Municipal Seat Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias
Government
 • Type Ayuntamiento
 • Municipal President Francisco Osorno Soberón
Area
 • Land 219.22 km2 (84.64 sq mi)
 • Water 0.00 km2 (0.00 sq mi)
Elevation (of seat) 2,240 m (7,350 ft)
Population (2010) 
 • Municipality 310,130
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Postal code (of seat) 56600
Area code(s) 55
Demonym Chalquense
Website Official website (Spanish)

State of Mexico State of Mexico

Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias (/ɕaɫko/ sh-al-ko) is a city that is municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Chalco. It lies in the eastern part of the State of Mexico just east of the Federal District of Mexico and is considered part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.

Chalco name is Nahuatl, comes from Challi: "lake edge", and Co: "place" therefore both words together mean "on the edge of the lake".

The municipal head, bears the surname of Diaz Covarrubias, in honor of Juan Díaz Covarrubias, one of the practitioners of medicine who was heroically shot in Tacubaya in 1859.

The first group of Native Americans to reach the region of Chalco was "the acxotecas" coming from Tula, the famous and ancient homeland of the Toltecs, and the first town they settled was called Chalco. Later, a second group of people arrived, this were the Mihuaques. By 1160 A.D arrived teotenancas and chichimecas from the valley of Toluca, through Tláhuac. Around the lake there were other groups, including cuixocas, temimilolcas and ihuipanecas, which formed a congregation of tribes with Chalcas.

By 1354 the entire region was known by the name of Tzacualtitlán-Tenanco Amaquemeca-Chalco". For 1410 the territory of the Chalca almost a Confederate state, consisted in four domains: Acxotlan-Chalco, Tlalmanalco-Amaquemecan, Tenanco-Tepopollan and Xochimilco-Chimalhuacan, being Acxotlan-Chalco Header".

War as a means of expansion and conquest becomes common, just we mention one of many: in 1376 the "flower war" that lasts eight years and is among Mexicans and Chalco, in this war only Chalca people died in battle and is because of this long struggle for survival and defense of the territory that the Chalco region didn't achieve the splendor of Texcoco or Tenochtitlan.


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