Acolman Municipality
Acolman de Nezahualcóyotl is a town and municipality located in the northern part of State of Mexico, part of the Greater Mexico City area, just north of the city proper. According to myth, the first man was placed here after being taken out of Lake Texcoco. In the community of Tepexpan, the fossilized bones more than 12,000 years old of a man were found in the 20th century. The settlement was founded in the eighth century and was an important commerce center at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Acolman de Nezahuacóyotl
- Settlement.name
- Acolman
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town & Municipality
- Settlement.total_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- FacadeAcolman2.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Facade of the former monastery
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- SealAcolmanMx.JPG
- Settlement.image_map
- Mexico Estado de Mexico Acolman location map.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- The town and its monastery
- The town
- The monastery
- Museo Virrenal
- The municipality
- Towns and villages
- Geography
- Climate
- Economy
- Tourism
- References
- External links
Acolman de Nezahualcóyotl is a town and municipality located in the northern part of State of Mexico, part of the Greater Mexico City area, just north of the city proper. According to myth, the first man was placed here after being taken out of Lake Texcoco. In the community of Tepexpan, the fossilized bones more than 12,000 years old of a man were found in the 20th century. The settlement was founded in the eighth century and was an important commerce center at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Acolman became the site of an important Augustinian monastery in the 16th century that still contains important art and architecture from that time period.