Coyoacán is a borough in Mexico City. The former village is now the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means "place of coyotes", when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dominated by the Tepanec people. Against Aztec domination, these people allied with the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523.
Country: Mexico
Established: 1928
Elevation: 2,256 m (7,402 ft)
Area code: 55
Federal entity: Mexico City
Named for: Pre-Columbian city of Coyoacán
Seat: Jardín Hidalgo No. 1 Col. Villa Coyoacán 04000
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