Escandón

The Escandón neighborhood is one of the colonies of Mexico City that were founded at the beginning of the 19th century on crop terrains that were formerly part of the haciendas. This colony formed part of the Hacienda de la Condesa, being property of the family Escandón, who fractionated the terrains situated south of this. The colony is divided in two: Escandón I and Escandón II, because of its big extension. The first section is located from the Patriotismo Avenue and confines with the Tacubaya neighborhood; whereas the second section extends from the Viaducto Presidente Miguel Alemán and confines with the Condesa Neighborhood. Escandón II has greater economic and social success than its homologous.

The colony still preserves some of the constructions that were built on the first-half of the 20th century, particularly from architectural styles as: art decó, colonial Californian, and the neocolonial. At the north, given the vicinity to the Tacubaya neighborhood, some examples of constructions that correspond to the architecture ecléctica can be appreciated. The greater part of the buildings constructed around the middle of the 20th century correspond to apartment buildings.

As many other colonies founded in the first-half of the 20th century, Escandón has several services and businesses that aim to attend the local population; some examples of this are the Jardín Morelos park and the market established in front of it. In recent times, the neighborhood has experimented a development in real-estate activities because it is near neighborhoods of medium-high economic levels, like Condesa, Roma, Nápoles and delValle.

The Colonia Escandón is found in an almost entirely flat terrain in the skirts of the Lomas of Tacubaya (belonging to the terrains of Lomas of Chapultepec) and the bank of the Lake of Chapultepec. It is delimited by the following avenues and neighborhoods: North, by the Eje 4 Sur Benjamín Franklin, the Baja California Avenue and the Colonia Condesa; south, by the Viaducto Presidente Miguel Alemán and the Colonia San Pedro de los Pinos, along with the Colonia Nápoles; to the east, by the Nuevo León Avenue and the Colonia Roma, and west by the Revolución Avenue and Tacubaya.

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