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The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was approximately 8.84 million people,with a land area of 1,485 square kilometres (573 sq mi).According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the Greater Mexico City population is 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area of the world's western hemisphere and both the tenth-largest agglomeration and largest Spanish-speaking city in the world.The Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$411 billion in 2011, making Mexico City urban agglomeration one of the economically largest metropolitan areas in the world.The city was responsible for generating 15.8% of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product and the metropolitan area accounted for about 22% of total national GDP.As a stand-alone country, in 2013, Mexico City would be the fifth-largest economy in Latin America—five times as large as Costa Rica's and about the same size as Peru's.more info :wikipedia

Cruise port in Costa Maya,Mexico

source:Chad Sparkes

Laguna de la Luna

Cráter del Nevado de Toluca

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source:Serge Saint

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Looking down from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon along the Avenue of the Dead.

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These jaguars have elaborate, feathered headdresses, while over their backs you see a line of sea shell trumpets that reaches to their tails.

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The Virgin of Guadalupe at Basílica de Guadalupe (painting behind the alter) one of the most religious Christian sites in the world. Services are held here 24 hours a day. Mexico City, Mexico In December 1531, so the story goes, an indigenous Christian convert named Juan Diego (bronze figure) had a vision of the Virgin Mary as he stood on Cerro del Tepeyac (Tepeyac hill), site of an old Aztec shrine.