Chimalhuacán, State of México, Mexico

The city | The municipality | "La Degolladora" | ″Loca Tristeza Mexicana″

🇲🇽 Chimalhuacán (Nahuatl for "place of those who have shields") is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of State of Mexico, Mexico. It lies just outside the north-east border of Mexico City and is part of the Greater Mexico City urban area.

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The city The city is practically coextensive with the municipality. The census of 2005 reported a population of 524,223 for the city and 525,389 for the municipality as a whole.

Chimalhuacán was founded 1259 by three chiefs or tlatoani named Huauxomatl, Chalchiutlatonac and Tlatzcantecuhtli. These chiefs and their people originated from Tula and Culhuacán. They spoke Chichimeca and Mexica languages but with time their customs merged and Náhuatl became the dominant language. It became subject to Texcoco, and through that belonged to the Aztec Triple Alliance in 1431. The Spanish town of Chimalhuacán was founded in 1529 and the Dominicans built a church and monastery here in 1563.

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The municipality Although the city takes up almost all of the municipality, Chimalhuacán, as the municipal seat, has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Colonia Nueva de Guadalupe la Palma, La Pista de los Corredores, Pista Aérea, Tlatel San Juan Xochiaca Parte Alta, and Zapotla.

Chimalhuacan has a new park in the centre of the municipality, Plaza Estado de Mexico Chimalhuacan, with a library, theater and other places for entertainment. The entry of the municipality has a monument to Chimalhucán, called Guerrero Chimalli, a 60-meter tall steel statue.

The municipality has an area of 46.61 km² (17.996 sq mi). The adjacent municipalities are Nezahualcóyotl, Atenco, Texcoco, Chicoloapan, and La Paz. The city is the sixth largest in the state in population (after Ecatepec de Morelos, Nezahualcóyotl, Naucalpan de Juárez, Toluca, and Tlalnepantla de Baz).

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"La Degolladora" During September 2015, a series of attacks on the citizens of Chimalhuacan began. The attacker was nicknamed "La Degolladora" ("The Throat-Slitter", "The Slasher") by local and international press due to the use of knives to injure and kill people randomly.

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″Loca Tristeza Mexicana″ Six members of the ″Loca Tristeza Mexicana″ band were arrested in March 2021 for two murders in 2020. Band members were heavily armed and in possession of drugs. They were also implicated in a kidnapping and murder of a local firefighter in 2018.

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Chimalhuacán has a population of over 679,811 people. Chimalhuacán also forms part of the Greater Mexico City metropolitan area which has a population of over 21,804,515 people.

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Antipodal to Chimalhuacán is: 81.047,-19.428

Locations Near: Chimalhuacán -98.9535,19.4277

🇲🇽 Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl -99.017,19.4 d: 7.3  

🇲🇽 Nezahualcóyotl -99.023,19.41 d: 7.6  

🇲🇽 Texcoco -98.88,19.52 d: 12.8  

🇲🇽 Texcoco de Mora -98.88,19.52 d: 12.8  

🇲🇽 Venustiano Carranza -99.1,19.417 d: 15.4  

🇲🇽 Iztapalapa -99.083,19.35 d: 16.1  

🇲🇽 Tláhuac -99.05,19.3 d: 17.4  

🇲🇽 Gustavo Adolfo Madero -99.109,19.497 d: 18  

🇲🇽 Mexico City -99.133,19.432 d: 18.8  

🇲🇽 Cuauhtémoc -99.133,19.433 d: 18.9  

Antipodal to: Chimalhuacán 81.047,-19.428

🇲🇺 Port Mathurin 63.417,-19.683 d: 18168.4  

🇲🇺 Centre de Flacq 57.718,-20.2 d: 17575.1  

🇲🇺 Mahébourg 57.7,-20.407 d: 17574  

🇲🇺 Goodlands 57.633,-20.033 d: 17565.6  

🇲🇺 Rivière du Rempart 57.633,-20.05 d: 17565.6  

🇲🇺 St Pierre 57.517,-20.217 d: 17554.2  

🇲🇺 Curepipe 57.517,-20.317 d: 17554.6  

🇲🇺 Port Louis 57.5,-20.15 d: 17552.2  

🇲🇺 Mauritius 57.499,-20.162 d: 17552.1  

🇲🇺 Port-Louis 57.496,-20.165 d: 17551.9  

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