Milpa Alta is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It is the second largest and most rural of all delegaciones.
In the July 2003 local election, Milpa Alta was the only delegación to elect a borough mayor from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Milpa Alta covers an area of 228 sq kilometers. It presents a heavily mountainous relief. Its lowest point, San Antonio Tecomitl, has an altitude of 22...
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Milpa Alta is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It is the second largest and most rural of all delegaciones.
In the July 2003 local election, Milpa Alta was the only delegación to elect a borough mayor from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Milpa Alta covers an area of 228 sq kilometers. It presents a heavily mountainous relief. Its lowest point, San Antonio Tecomitl, has an altitude of 2250 above sea level, ten meters above the median altitude for Mexico City. Surrounding Teuhtli volcano there is a strip of land slightly sloped that gradually becomes higher moving west. This region is known as the Milpa Alta valley, and in it most of the borough's population inhabits. The Milpa Alta valley rises up to 2700 meters above sea level, and its climate is thus cooler than in the rest of the Mexico City basin. This little valley separates the Teuhtil volcano from the Ajusco-Chichunautzin mountains, that takes its name from its highest...
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