 Puerta para entrar a Coyoacán, Ciudad de México. Image by DavidGomezChiu, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Coyotes Los Del Rio BravoCoyoacán Coyoacán Borough in Mexico City, Mexico For the metro station, see Coyoacán metro station. Coyoacán ( US: /ˌkɔɪoʊəˈkɑːn/ KOY-oh-ə-KAHN;[3][4] Spanish: [koʝoaˈkan] ⓘ, Otomi: Ndemiñ'yo) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. The former village became the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl "Coyōhuahcān," composed of "coyōhuah" (one who has coyotes) and "-cān" (place), and therefore means "place of those who own coyotes", which the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dominated by the Tepanec people. Against Aztec domination, these people allied with the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521… (Source: Wikipedia)
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