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Ecatepec de Morelos

Third most-populous municipality in Mexico, northern suburb of Mexico City.

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Street map of the area around Ecatepec de Morelos; the red dot marks 19°36′36″N 99°03′36″W
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Its name means "windy hill" in Nahuatl, and "Morelos" honors Mexican independence hero José María Morelos.[1] Among all municipalities in Mexico, Ecatepec de Morelos ranks third in population, and it is the most populous suburb within the Greater Mexico City area.[2] The municipality and the city of Ecatepec are the same geographic entity, with the city holding 99% of the municipality's total inhabitants, which number 1,645,352.[2]

Geography and history

It borders eight other municipalities and the Mexico City borough of Gustavo A. Madero.[3] The earliest human remains in the area were found on Cerro de Ecatepec.[4] Ecatepec was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) and was used by the Mexicas to control northern trade routes.[4][1] From 1428 to 1539, it was ruled by a tlatoani whose dynasty was closely tied to Tenochtitlan's rulers.[5]

In 1527, Hernán Cortés granted Ecatepec as an encomienda to Aztec princess Mariana Leonor Moctezuma.[6] In April 1995, mammoth remains dated to around 10,500 BC were found in Colonia Ejidos de San Cristóbal.[4] To the north of Mexico City lies the municipality, which spans 156.2 square kilometers.[7][3] The official establishment of the municipality occurred on October 13, 1874, and the seat gained city status on December 1, 1980.[8][1]

Starting in 1970, Ecatepec saw a dramatic surge in its population, driven by people moving from rural areas into the Valley of Mexico.[1]

What the cited sources add

A Guardian report from February 2016 describes Ecatepec as a suburb of around 1.6 million people, made up of sprawling cinderblock slums and a strategic point for drug gangs.[9] The same source states that Pope Francis celebrated mass there before a crowd of 300,000, warning against "dialogue with the devil" in the context of drug violence and kidnappings.[9] The Guardian notes that more than 10,000 police, soldiers, and guards were on patrol for the event.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Historia de Ecatepec", Ecatepec.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 - SCITEL", INEGI; "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 - SCITEL", INEGI (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "México en cifras - Medio Ambenciente - Estado de México", INEGI, January 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México Estado de Mexico Ecatepec" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Explorations in ethnohistory: Indians of central Mexico in the sixteenth century by H. R. Harvey, Hanns J. Prem (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chipman, "Moctezuma's Children", University of Texas Press, 2010, p. 69, 418 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ecatepec de Morelos municipality", 3.inegi.org.mx (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Ecatepec de Morelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Historia de Ecatepec", Ecatepec.com; "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México Estado de Mexico Ecatepec" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Pope Francis warns Mexico City crowd against 'dialogue with the devil'", The Guardian, 14 February 2016. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Ecatepec de Morelos (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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