Gustavo A. Madero is the northernmost borough ( demarcación territorial ) of Mexico City .
6-698: Tepeyac or the Hill of Tepeyac , historically known by the names Tepeyacac and Tepeaquilla , is located inside Gustavo A. Madero , the northernmost Alcaldía or borough of Mexico City . According to the Catholic tradition, it is the site where Saint Juan Diego met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December 1531, and received the iconic image of the Lady of Guadalupe. The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe located there
12-476: Is a title of the greatest respect and "Coatlaxopeuh" is a name). In Nahuatl , Tepeyacac is a proper noun, a combination of tepetl ("mountain"), yacatl ("nose"), and the relational word -c , ("at"). According to scholars of the Nahuatl language, "the term would generally be expected to mean 'a settlement on the ridge or brow of a hill.' Since yacatl (the nose going first) often implies antecedence, here
18-552: Is one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the world. Spanish colonists erected a Catholic chapel at the site, Our Lady of Guadalupe, "the place of many miracles." It forms part of the Sierra de Guadalupe mountain range. Tepeyac Hill "had been a place for worshipping Aztec earth goddesses." Tepeyac is believed to have been a Pre-Columbian worship site for the indigenous mother goddess Tonantzin Coatlaxopeuh ("Tonantzin"
24-677: The brother and fellow revolutionary of President Francisco I. Madero . The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , which ended the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848, was signed in Gustavo A. Madero. The area houses the Basílica de Guadalupe , the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the foot of Tepeyac Hill , where Roman Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to the indigenous Mexican Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in 1531. Being
30-626: The northernmost borough, the Northern Central Bus Station ( Terminal Central del Norte ) is located here, providing constant bus service to all major cities in the northern and western part of the country. On Sundays, the San Felipe de Jesús Tianguis in the neighborhood of the same name, is Latin America's largest tianguis or street market, with 30,000 vendors and stretching seven kilometers. Public high schools of
36-420: The word may refer to the fact that the hill is the first and most prominent of a series of three." 19°29′26″N 99°06′50″W / 19.4905°N 99.114°W / 19.4905; -99.114 Gustavo A. Madero, D.F. Founded as "Villa de Guadalupe" in 1563, it became the city of "Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo" in 1828, and finally a delegación in 1931. It was named after Gustavo A. Madero ,
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