Hola / Buenos días
How locals say hello in Mexico City
March–May (dry season, warm before the rains)
Mexico City is at 2,240m altitude — give yourself a day to adjust. Uber is safer than street taxis.
An Aztec prophecy said to found their city where they saw an eagle on a cactus eating a serpent. In 1325, they found the sign on an island in Lake Texcoco and built Tenochtitlán, which grew to 200,000 people. Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519 and by 1521 had razed it entirely. The Spanish rebuilt their capital on its ruins, draining the lake over centuries — which is why modern Mexico City slowly sinks into ancient lakebed.
Mexico City is sinking at about 50cm per year because it was built on a former lake bed.
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