El Distrito Federal (D.F.)

El Distrito Federal (D.F.)

El Distrito Federal (el D.F.)

Mexico City is not only the cpaital of the country, the Distrito Federal is also the center of Mexico's government, economy, culture and educational system. Internally known sites you might want to visit include El Palacio Nacional, el Museo de Antropología and one of the largest universities in the world, la Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), among others.

La Universidad Autónoma de México

Downtown, virtually every street offers an array of interesting sites and experiences, including Aztec ruins (la plaza de las Tres Culturas), beautiful parks (Alameda), museums and art galleries (el Palacio de Bellas Artes), as well as many interesting colonial buildings.

Like most large U.S. cities, downtown streets are crowded, noisy, polluted and frequently congested with traffic jams. In addition, early Spanish colonists constructed the city on top of the original Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, which had been built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. Parts of the city are now sinking because of this soft land, and this creates problems providing fresh drinking water to millions of residents.

When you travel to el D.F., you will experience a cosmopolitan atmosphere that is both similar to and yet very different from other cities in the world.

Un restaurante en la ciudad de México

Open Ended

Busca el internet (Search the internet) and find a restaurant in Mexico City. Write the name, where the restaurant is, describe the menu and the prices:

Open Ended

Compare: Choose a large city in the U.S. and compare it to Mexico City. How is it similar? How is it different? What are the populations? Public transportation? Restaurant variety? etc. 3-5 sentences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sra_-ykV7c

copy and paste this link into your search bar to watch the video about Mexico City Sinking.

Multiple Choice

La ciudad de México is sinking because the Spainards drained the lake after building their empire on top of it

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Multiple Choice

Mexico city has sunk more than 32 feet in the past 60 years

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Open Ended

What is one of the alternative ways mentioned in the video Mexico City can collect drinking water?