17 Facts About Tlalpan

When it was created in 1928, it was named after the most important settlement of the area, Tlalpan, which is referred to as “Tlalpan center” to distinguish it from the borough.

Tlalpan center has eighty structures from the 16th to the 20th centuries that have been classified by INAH as having historic value.

The borough of Tlalpan has sought World Heritage Site status for the area because of these structures, the area's history and the nearby site of Cuicuilco.

Today, it serves as the headquarters of the borough, although it is commonly referred to as the “ex palacio municipal” referring to the time when Tlalpan was an independent municipality in the State of Mexico.

Twenty blocks of Tlalpan center have been designated at the “Museo Publico de Arte Contemporaneo de Tlalpan, an “open-air” museum of art, which opened in 2006 with eighteen works.

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Tlalpan is the largest of Mexico City's sixteen boroughs, and vastly larger than the traditional village of Tlalpan.

Tlalpan is located between the mountains that separate Mexico City from the states of Morelos and Mexico and the rocky areas of San Angel, Ciudad Universitaria and the delegation of Coyoacan.

The south of the Valley, including Tlalpan, is affected by the underground movement of magma, especially when such contacts the waterlogged regions of the former Lake Xochimilco.

Bosque de Tlalpan, called the Parque Nacional Bosque de Pedregal, is fully surrounded by urban area, just south of the Anillo Periferico and between the highways heading to Cuernavaca and to Picacho-Ajusco.

The Bosque de Tlalpan is filled with pines, oyamel fir, cedars, oaks and eucalyptus trees, which grow on a solidified lava bed.

Fuentes Brotates de Tlalpan is a national park with an area of about one km2 running alongside a small canyon.

However, the Tlalpan area was initially part of the then very large State of Mexico, which surrounded Mexico City.

Tlalpan became the capital of the State of Mexico from 1837 until 1855, when the area was incorporated into the Federal District.

The village of Tlalpan became the head of what was then called the Southern Prefecture.

Borough of Tlalpan was created in 1928, when the Federal District of Mexico City was reorganized into 16 administrative parts called delegaciones .

Festival Ollin Jazz Tlalpan Internacional is a series of concerts which has hosted artists such as Enrique Neri, Eugenio Toussaint, Agustin Bernal, Bill McHenry, Brian Allen and Hector Infanzon.

In Tlalpan, these include San Pedro Martir, San Andres Totoltepec, San Miguel Topilejo, San Miguel Xicalco, Parres el Guarda, Magdalena Petlacalco, San Miguel Ajusco and Santo Tomas Ajusco.