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Chapultepec

American  
[chuh-puhl-tuh-pek, chah-pool-te-pek] / tʃəˈpʌl təˌpɛk, tʃɑˌpul tɛˈpɛk /

noun

  1. a fortress and military school at the outskirts of Mexico City: captured by U.S. forces (1847) in the Mexican War; now a park.


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A more-surreal homage by Rivera from 1952 lies in leafy Chapultepec Park: a 100-foot-long tiled statue of Tláloc, the Aztec god of rain, lying supine in a pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Nevertheless LIV did announce plans to return to Mexico City's Chapultepec Golf Club in 2027.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

A few flew in from Mexico City, where this week’s tournament began Thursday at the Club de Golf Chapultepec.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The remains of these invisible dead end up in Dolores Cemetery, Mexico's largest, situated in Chapultepec Forest.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

They had been under fire together, and as long as he lived Longstreet would never forget the sight of Pickett with the flag going over the wall in the smoke and flame of Chapultepec.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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