Ecatepec de Morelos est une localité de la municipalité d'Ecatepec de Morelos, dans l'État de Mexico, au Mexique. Lors du recensement de 2020, elle compte 1 643 623 habitants.
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, also Ecatepec Cathedral, is the main Catholic church and seat of the Diocese of Ecatepec in Mexico. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is located in the municipality of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico.
It was inaugurated in March 1999 in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal. Its construction, begun on January 6, 1998, is modernist, similar to that of the Basilica of Guadalupe, simulating a tent for pilgrims.
More than 70 churches are dependent on this diocese.
On Sundays, as in all Catholic churches, Masses are celebrated, accompanied by musical groups such as students, musicians and vocalists such as the music ministry Sabath and even Mariachi, which incidentally gives a folk form to this religious act.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ecatepec is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla in Mexico. The see city is Ecatepec de Morelos in the state of Mexico.
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The Puente Ingeniero Ernesto Uriegas, best known as the Puente de Fierro, is a twin-span bridge found along Vía Morelos Avenue, in San Cristóbal, Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico. The bridge was built to cross the Gran Canal del Desagüe that surrounds Mexico City. The origins of the construction of the bridge tend to differ depending on the source as there are few records of the bridge beyond undated pictures. One of the stories says that it was completed in 1896 to be operated by the National Railroad Company. There is also a persistent legend about its origins that mentions that Gustave Eiffel, at the request of president Porfirio Díaz, designed the bridge in the 1870s. It was later adapted into a provisional vehicle bridge and eventually replaced with an adjacent larger vehicular bridge. In 2000, the local government remodeled the space into a museum, which would last 16 years. Since then, the bridge has been abandoned and has received partial maintenance.
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Ecatepec, officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the State of Mexico situated in the north of the Greater Mexico City urban area. The municipal seat is San Cristóbal Ecatepec.
The city of Ecatepec is co-extensive with the municipality, comprising 99% of the total population of 1,645,352. It is Mexico's third most-populous municipality after Tijuana and the 16 boroughs of Mexico City. It is also the most-populous suburb of Greater Mexico City.
The name "Ecatepec" is derived from Nahuatl and means "windy hill" or "hill devoted to Ehecatl". It was also an alternative name for or invocation of the god Quetzalcoatl. "Morelos" refers to José María Morelos, a hero of the Mexican War of Independence. Saint Christopher is the city's patron saint, celebrated on July 25.
Ecatepec is served by the Mexico City metro, by the State of Mexico's Mexibús bus rapid transit lines, and by Mexicable aerial cable car lines.
Points of interest include the Catedral del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, several colonial era churches, and the Morelos Museum in Casa de los Virreyes. Mexico's busiest shopping center, Multiplaza Aragón, is also located in Ecatepec.
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The 11th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 40 such districts in the State of Mexico.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation deputies elected from the fifth region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Xóchitl Teresa Arzola Vargas of the National Regeneration Movement.
Bibliographie
(es) Charles Gibson, Los aztecas bajo el dominio español, 2021 (ISBN 9789682301445). Portail du Mexique
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