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    33 Comments

    2. Owl Man on

      Hey! Nice video! Welcome to the Capital. Your animations and presentation style are absolutely beautiful. I just have a couple of pointers.

      1. Your video implies that the lakes were mostly drained during the colonial period (1521-1821). This isn't the case. Up until the start of the Revolution (1910) the lakes were still a formidable part of the city. By the end of the Vietnam War though (1975), the city was more concrete than water or empty land. What truly killed the lakes were the glorious post-war years (1950-1970) with their oil-based economic booms and the wonderful, wonderful appeal of consumerism and American-style urbanism (priority to highways and cars to the detriment of pedestrian and aquatic traffic.)

      2. You pronunciation was fantastic in some words (both Spanish and Nahuatl), but in others it seemed you were saying the words aloud for the first time. A quick and dirty trick that almost always works (especially for place names) in Nahuatl is that the second to last syllable bears the stress. So Te-noch-TI-tlan. Tla-CO-pan. Iz-ta-pa-LA-pan. Spa-GHE-tti and La-SA-gna ;D

    3. MIATX on

      Now that i see this history
      Im actually quite dissapointed that Tenochtitlan isn’t there anymore and that the spanyard drained all the water and build churches.
      Bruh they have so much history and such cool geography it would be a massive tourist attraction or maybe even a world wonder like Machu Pichu or Chichen Itza.
      Such a pity that its all lost.
      Btw same here in Rotterdam Netherland the most modern city here.
      Before it was bombed in WW2 it was a same style city like Amsterd, Alkmaar, Delft and Utrecht.
      It was so beautifull

    4. Teodor Anton on

      Really nice presentation, I knew that the city is spectacular, but never really took a deep dive into it's history. Now I kind of want to go see everything in person!

    6. Proper Burger on

      Vaya vaya… Qué buena producción, todo en general muchísimo cubriste en 14 minutos. Ésta ciudad es un organismo vivo que vive y gruñe y sonríe y disfruta desde antes de que México fuera México… Los Chilangos tenemos el privilegio de heredar esa tradición, esa vibra, el de llamar a la Ciudad de México nuestra cuna, casa, y campo de juego…

    7. Dic Dicd on

      There are neither miles nor feet in Mexico! Don't insult the mexicans, don't insult us, respect your audience! The world doesn't give a rat's ass to the miles!

    8. Paso Fino🇲🇽 on

      If you have a U.S Passport and have not been to CDMX you are a missing out on a very unique place in our hemisphere, it’s worth going to just simply eat food it’s that good, you could go just to eat. How many places could you say that about.

    12. g cecg on

      I live in Morelos, but we have an apartment in Narvarte. Watching your video makes me look forward to my mother's visit from the States next month when we will spend some time visiting CDMX. Very well done!

    15. GregGHouse on

      4:55 Spain did not had colonies. It was a viceroyalty. Spain spread its culture, Universitys, religión, etc.
      On the Other hand, The British and the USA are colonialist, because they just looted the foreign land they occupied.

    16. Roberto Portillo on

      I’m really impressed by the quality of the video. It’s evident the effort it took to make it, few youtube channels today still make this type of quality content. Congrats, you have yourself a new subscriber.

    18. Jorge Javier on

      Did a great historical job, the origins and how the city evolved is fantastic, a much needed video to see the marvels of one of the world's greatest cities.

    21. Joseph Mauricio Rojas on

      Congratulations! Consider a video of the time layers of Mexico City map, say every 50 years from 1521 (Tenochtitlan), to say 2000, with a map of the lake superimposed so anyone can find out what is under their homes, offices, etc. I live in San Diego, CA, and have a small apartment in Mexico City at Av. Juarez, right in front of the Hemiciclo a Juarez monument in the Alameda. I have learned that the plot of land where the building was built (one of the few that survived the 1985 and 2016 earthquakes), was in the transition of the Tenochtitlan island to “tierra firme”. I guess that it was a muddy marsh with rocks, nopales and some short elevations (islets). I keep researching about the history of my neighborhood, for example, the next building towards the zocalo was a convent, in the XVI century there was a jail somewhere near, and each block of the avenue had a different name, not like today that is Av Juarez from Reforma to eje I. Well thank you for your patience, I look forward to participating in the video contest with videos from western China, south to north, call it China Extremes. It was a trip in 2009 when I retired from my old job.

    24. Bright Trip on

      Hey guys and gals! As some of you pointed out, the metro is not 140,000 mi of track —
      That would be about five and a half times around the earth or more than halfway to the moon as Cam mentioned (which would be q u i t e impressive)

      I got excited and added the extra 139,860 miles of track, my apologies. It's an estimated 140 mi or 225 km of total length.

      – David
      🌝🛤🌏

    28. Gerald Olvera on

      The best city in the world hands down. The people so approachable, the food world class from its street food to its 1-3 star Michelin star restaurants. Historic sights at every turn. Amazing weather, can’t beat it.

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