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  • Still(ed) waters: a very short history of Mexico City

    How a lake turned into one of the largest cities in the world: this is the story of Mexico City.

    Before the Spanish conquest, Mexico City was a kind of Venice in the middle of a couple of connected lakes, surrounded by volcanoes. It was called Tenochtitlan: ’the place of many tunas’ (notwithstanding the watery environment, a tuna here being the fruit of a cactus).

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