Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias
| Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias | ||
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| Motto: Government that listens and resolves | ||
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| Coordinates: 19°15′53″N 98°53′51″W / 19.26472°N 98.89750°W | ||
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| Region | Amecameca | |
| Metro area | Greater Mexico City | |
| Municipal Status | January 30, 1824 | |
| Municipal Seat | Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias | |
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| • 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) | |
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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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