HALFWAY TO HEAVEN
Set in a high valley under two volcanoes, México (Mexico City) was capital of the Aztec Empire until the 1500s. With a population second only to Tokyo's, the city confronts poverty, congestion, and pollution. Splendid museums and glittering avenues ornament this lofty capital, where beneath the layers of modernity, archaeologists still find objects revealing the brilliance of pre-Columbian cultures.
ECONOMYFinance, chemicals, petroleum, food products, textiles, motor vehicles, machinery, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods.Text source:
National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
