Azcapotzalco

[ahs-kah-paw-tsahl-kaw]

noun

1. a city in central Mexico: suburb of Mexico City; a cultural center during the pre-Columbian period.

Example Sentences

When she was 20, she took the first steps toward fulfilling that dream, moving to Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, where she began studying architecture at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was found dead in her apartment in Azcapotzalco, a working-class borough of Mexico City.

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Bicitekas is lending 400 bicycles to Azcapotzalco, a periphery borough that is too far away from the government bike-sharing system.

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Police said the assailants in the Saturday shootout drove up and opened fire on a group of people outside a food and drinks establishment in the northern borough of Azcapotzalco.

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While there has been a revival of ulama in some indigenous areas of Mexico, the capital did not have an ulama court until very recently when a cultural centre built one at an old rubbish dump in the Azcapotzalco neighbourhood.

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