Coyoacán

Coyoacán (place of coyotes in Nahuatl ) is a southern city district ( delegación ) from Mexico City, who until the formation of districts ( delegaciones ) 1929 was a separate municipality.

Transport links

Under the Avenida Universidad, which forms the western boundary of Coyoacán, runs the Metro Line 3 to get to the center of Coyoacán, one leaves the train at the station Coyoacán best ( in the north, near Avenida Río Churubusco ), Viveros ( close to city park Viveros de Coyoacán ) or Miguel Ángel de Quevedo (in the south, on Avenida Miguel Angel de Queveda ).

East of the center of Coyoacan runs the Metro Line 2, whose station General Anaya is removed below the Calzada de Tlalpan about 2 km from the central Plaza Hidalgo.

History

The first mention of the pre-Hispanic village Coyohuacan can be found in the records of Chimalpahin ( 1579-1660 ). According to these the place must have already existed in 1330 and have been at that time populated exceedingly numerous. Even in the early history of the Spanish colonization under Cortés Coyoacán played an important role. After his troops conquered Tenochtitlan and had destroyed, Cortés could be Coyohuacan 1521 and founded the first city council of New Spain. Here and in the nearby Valley of Cuauhnahuac he began sugarcane, wheat and to let grow from Spain imported fruit trees. Cortés stayed during the reconstruction of Mexico City until 1523 Coyohuacan which at that time numbered about 7,000 inhabitants. Until the mid-19th century Coyoacán was especially famous for its gardens and fountains and moved as a place of residence to a number of domestic and foreign artists.

Structures

The internationally known attractions of Coyoacán are the casa Azul, where Frida Kahlo was born and spent most of her life, as well as present-day Museo Casa Leon Trotsky, the Kahlo gave the immigrated to Mexico in the Russian revolutionary and Jaime Ramón Mercader this del Río Hernández was killed with an ice pick. Both properties are located in the Colonia del Carmen and are now museums.

At the Plaza Hidalgo, the main square of the district, are the remains of the company founded by the Dominicans in 1528 the monastery of San Juan Bautista. The cross -border in the west to the Plaza Hidalgo Jardin del Centenario made ​​at the time the spacious courtyard of the monastery. In the middle of the park there is a statue with two coyotes, the namesake of the municipality.

The small church of San Antonio de Panzacola located at the corner of Avenidas and Universidad Francisco Sosa at the Western border of Coyoacán. The Chapel of St. Anthony of Panzacola dates from the 18th century and has inspired many artists.

The original monastery of Santa Maria de los Angeles in the district of Churubusco was built on the site of a once mighty temple of the Aztecs in the 16th century. Between 1676 and 1678 was a completely new building of the church and convent. On August 20, 1847, Mexican troops put themselves in that place against the North American invaders. Although they had to ultimately be defeated by superior force, but are revered for this exploit to this day.

The Ciudad Universitaria and to their built Estadio Olímpico Universitario, home ground of the football club UNAM Pumas and the Olympic Summer Games in 1968, are also in Coyoacán as that in the colonia Santa Úrsula Coapa location Aztec Stadium, both from Club America as well as from national is used as a home ground and twice hosted a world championship finals (1970 and 1986 ) was.

Residents of Coyoacan

• David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), painter and graphic artist
• Griselda Álvarez (1913-2009), writer and politician
• Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), Photographer
• Raúl Anguiano (1915-2006), painter
• Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), Spanish - Mexican filmmaker
• Carol II (1893-1953), King of Romania
• Julián Carrillo (1875-1965), musician
• Antonio Castro Leal (1896-1981), legal and literary scholars
• José Chávez Morado (1909-2002), artist
• Hernán Cortés (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador who lived here from 1521 to 1523
• Francisco Díaz de León (1897-1975), graphic
• Laura Esquivel ( born 1950 ), writer
• Emilio Fernández (1904-1986), actor and director
• Gabriel Figueiroa (1907-1997), cinematographer
• Arturo García Bustos ( born 1926 ), painter
• Gabriel García Márquez (* 1927), Colombian writer
• Jorge González Camarena (1908-1980), painter and sculptor
• José Gorostiza (1901-1973), poet and diplomat
• Ángela Gurría ( born 1929 ), sculptor and first female member of the Academia de Artes
• Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928-1983), writer
• Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), painter, lived in the Casa Azul, calle Londres 247 (corner of calle Ignacio Allende )
• Rina Lazo Wasen (* 1923), Guatemalan painter and graphic artist
• Magda Lupescu (1896-1977), wife of King Carol II (see above)
• Malinche (ca. 1505 -ca. 1529), interpreter of Hernán Cortés, the Casa Colorada or Casa de la Malinche at the Plaza La Conchita. To be seen in the sixth mural of the first female Muralistin Aurora Reyes Flores, who also lived in Coyoacán ( see below).
• Carlos Montemayor (1947-2010), writer and singer
• Francisco Moreno Capdevila (1926-1995), painter, printmaker and sculptor
• Salvador Novo (1904-1974), writer, calle de Salvador Novo
• Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), American archaeologist and anthropologist
• Juan O'Gorman (1905-1982), architect and painter
• Pablo O'Higgins (1904-1983), painter and co-founder of Liga de Artistas y Escritores Revolucionarios
• Diego de Ordás (1485-1532), Spanish conquistador, Avenida Francisco Sosa 4
• José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), painter
• Octavio Paz (1914-1998), writer and diplomat, Avenida Francisco Sosa 383
• Feliciano Peña (1915-1982), painter, printmaker and sculptor
• Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871-1946), painter
• Gustav Controller (1898-1963), German writer and journalist
• Aurora Reyes Flores (1908-1985), painter
• Dolores del Río (1905-1983), actress, calle de Salvador Novo 127
• Maria Teresa Rivas (1933-2010), actress
• Diego Rivera (1886-1957), painter
• Francisco Sosa (1848-1925), historian and writer, Avenida Francisco Sosa 38
• José Juan Tablada (1871-1945), poet
• Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991), painter
• Manuel Toussaint y Ritter (1890-1955), art historian
• Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian revolutionary, Avenida Rio Churubusco 410