Colonia Narvarte

Colonia Narvarte is the commonly used name for an area in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City.

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation headquarters
Parque Delta

Geography

The area commonly known as Narvarte or Colonia Narvarte actually contains five officially recognized neighborhoods:

  • Colonia Piedad Narvarte
  • Colonia Atenor Salas
  • Colonia Narvarte Poniente
  • Colonia Narvarte Oriente
  • Colonia Vértiz Narvarte

Narvarte is bordered on the west by Colonia del Valle, the north by Viaducto Miguel Alemán freeway, across which are Colonia Roma Sur, Colonia Buenos Aires and Colonia Doctores.[1]

History

The old village of La Piedad was located in Colonia Piedad Narvarte, but no traces remain. The area was developed starting in the 1940s[2] and Japanese, German and Lebanese immigrants moved here.[3]

Points of interest

The large Parque Delta shopping center is located in Colonia Piedad Narvarte. The headquarters of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation with its famous murals is also located in the area.

Transportation

The area is served by metro stations Metro Eugenia, Metro Etiopia and Metro División del Norte and by Mexico City Metrobús lines 2 and 3.

gollark: Of course, I *have* slightly backdoored logos's computer's RNG.
gollark: Yes, AES and such are very well-tested and probably not likely to be breakable for years at least.
gollark: BRB, bruteforcing all likely passwords to [REDACTD] apionic hyperguessing.
gollark: > *** WARNING : deprecated key derivation used.> Using -iter or -pbkdf2 would be better.
gollark: What are the chances that someone somehow manages to muck up key management and their guesses can't be decrypted?

References
  1. Google Maps
  2. http://www.chilango.com/ciudad/la-colonia-narvarte/
  3. https://www.airbnb.com/locations/mexico-city/narvarte

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.