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la Conquista; Perla Valle, Ordenanza del señor
Cuauhtémoc, trans. Rafael Tena.



  1. Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Reshaping New
    Spain: Government and Private Interests in the
    Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531–1550; Ethelia Ruiz
    Medrano, “Fighting Destiny: Nahua Nobles and
    Friars in the Sixteenth-Century Revolt of the
    Encomenderos against the King,” in Ethelia Ruiz
    Medrano and Susan Kellogg, eds., Negotiation
    within Domination: New Spain’s Indian Pueblos
    Confront the Spanish State, 45–77; Felipe Castro
    Gutiérrez, ed., Los indios y las ciudades de Nueva
    España.

  2. Edmundo O’Gorman, “Reflexiones sobre
    la distribución urbana colonial de la ciudad de
    México”; Alfonso Caso, “Los barrios antiguos de
    Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco.”

  3. See also Roberto Moreno de los Arcos,
    “Los territoriales parroquiales de la Ciudad
    Arzobispal”; José Rubén Romero Galván, “La
    Ciudad de México, los paradigmas de dos fun-
    daciones”; Anthony F. Aveni, Edward E. Calnek,
    H. Hartung, “Myth, Environment, and the Ori-
    entation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan.”

  4. Calnek, “ Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco”; Edward
    Calnek, “ Tenochtitlan in the Early Colonial
    Period”; Edward Calnek, “Settlement Pattern
    and Chinampa Agriculture at Tenochtitlan.”

  5. Barbara E. Mundy, “Mapping the
    Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of
    Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings”; on the
    economic organization of the empire, Frances
    Berdan, The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An
    Imperial Society.

  6. Lockhart, The Nahuas after the
    Conquest, 20.

  7. Emily Umberger, “Renaissance and
    Enlightenment Images of Aztec Sacrificial
    S t o n e s .”

  8. Alejandro Alcántara Gallegos,
    “Los barrios de Tenochtitlan: Topografía,
    organización interna y tipología de sus predios”;
    Jonathan Truitt, “Nahuas and Catholicism
    in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Religious Faith and
    Practice and la Capilla de San Josef de los
    Naturales, 1523–1700”; Richard Conway, “Lakes,
    Canoes, and the Aquatic Communities of
    Xochimilco and Chalco, New Spain.”

  9. Population data from Instituto
    Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, online at
    http://cuentame.inegi.org.mx/monografias/
    informacion/df/poblacion/. Metro data from
    “Sistema de Transporte Colectivo—Metro de
    la Ciudad de México,” available online at http://
    http://www.metro.df.gob.mx/.

  10. On Pantitlan, see Margarita Carballal
    Staedtler and María Flores Hernández,
    “El Peñón de los Baños (Tepetzinco) y sus
    alrededores: Interpretaciones paleoambiéntales
    y culturales de la porción noroccidental del Lago


de Texcoco,” 258–264; Bernardino de Sahagún,
Florentine Codex: General History of the Things
of New Spain, bk. 2, ch. 20, 43–44, and bk. 2,
ch. 25, 84.

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  1. González Aparicio, Plano reconstructivo.

  2. Correlation from Domingo Francisco
    de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin
    Quauhtlehuanitzin, Codex Chimalpahin: Society
    and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco,
    Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl
    in Central Mexico, ed. and trans. Arthur J. O.
    Anderson and Susan Schroeder, 1:105.

  3. Cortés, Letters from Mexico, 102.

  4. Karl A. Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism:
    A Comparative Study of Total Power, 27, 59.

  5. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua
    castillana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana,
    fol. 8v (Nahuatl), fol. 67r (Spanish).

  6. Richard F. Townsend, State and Cosmos in
    the Art of Tenochtitlan, 43.

  7. Townsend, State and Cosmos, 28.

  8. Arild Hvidtfeldt, Teotl and Ixiptlatli: Some
    Central Conceptions in Ancient Mexican Religion.

  9. Cantares Mexicanos, fols. 22v–23r,
    translated in Angel María Garibay K., Historia
    de la literatura náhuatl, 1:160. My translation of
    Garibay’s Spanish.

  10. Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón
    Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, “Historia
    Mexicana,” from “Codex Chimalpahin,”
    unpublished translation by John B. Glass, in my
    possession. Another translation, less poetic, is to
    be found in Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin,
    1:27.

  11. Alfredo López Austin, “Cosmovision,”
    1:268; Alfredo López Austin, “Los juegos de la
    esencias,” in Tamoanchan y Tlalocan.

  12. López Austin, “Cosmovision,” 268–274;
    Johanna Broda, “El culto Mexica de los cerros de
    la Cuenca de México,” 53.

  13. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, “Symbolism
    of the Templo Mayor,” 188–189.

  14. Sahagún, Florentine Codex, bk. 3, ch. 1, 1–4.

  15. Aveni, Calnek, and Hartung, “Myth,
    Environment, and the Orientation of the
    Templo Mayor.”

  16. Sahagún, Florentine Codex, bk. 11, ch. 12,
    2 47.

  17. Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin, 1:87.

  18. Joaquín García Icazbalceta, ed., “Historia
    de los Mexicanos por sus pinturas,” 3:246, 249.

  19. Diego Durán, The History of the Indies of
    New Spain, ed. and trans. Doris Heyden, 32, tells
    of sacrifice in Tepetzinco; the heart was thrown
    to where the foundation took place, in a place
    called Tlacocolmolco. The date varies according
    to different sources. For instance, Chimalpahin,


Codex Chimalpahin, 1:89, dates it as 1 House
(1285).


  1. Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin, 1:97.
    Also, Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Crónica
    mexicayotl, trans. Adrián León, 52–54.

  2. García Icazbalceta, “Historia de los
    Mexicanos,” 3:246, 249.

  3. Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin, 1:101.
    The account of the foundation found in Durán,
    History, 40, which describes a spring flowing
    from the rock, and I use this to understand the
    Nahuatl account as describing streams.

  4. María Elena Bernal-García and Ángel
    Julián García Zambrano, “Introducción” in
    Territorialidad y paisaje en el altepetl del siglo
    XVI, ed. Federico Fernández Christlieb and
    Ángel Julián García Zambrano, 20.

  5. Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin, 1:103.

  6. Durán, History, 35.

  7. Carballal Staedtler and Flores Hernández,
    “El Peñón de los Baños,” 218–256.

  8. Palerm, Obras hidráulicas prehispánicas;
    González Aparicio, Plano reconstructivo.

  9. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True
    History of the Conquest of New Spain, ed. Genaro
    García and trans. Alfred Percival Maudslay,
    vol. 2, ch. 92, p. 73; Jeffrey R. Parsons,
    The Last Saltmakers of Nexquipayac, Mexico:
    An Archaeological Ethnography.

  10. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, “Ecological and
    Agricultural Changes in the Chinampas of
    Xochimilco-Chalco”; Teresa Rojas Rabiela, ed.,
    La agricultura chinampera: Compilación histórica;
    Jeffrey R. Parsons, Mary H. Parsons, Virginia
    Popper, and Mary Taft, “Chinampa Agriculture
    and Aztec Urbanization in the Valley of
    Mexico.”

  11. González Aparicio, Plano reconstructivo,
    35–38.

  12. Jeffery R. Parsons, “The Aquatic
    Component of Aztec Subsistence: Hunters,
    Fishers and Collectors in an Urbanized Society.”

  13. Rojas Rabiela, “Ecological and
    Agricultural Changes.”

  14. Palerm, Obras hidráulicas prehispánicas;
    González Aparicio, Plano reconstructivo; Teresa
    Rojas Rabiela, “Obras hidráulicas coloniales en
    el Norte de la Cuenca de México (1540–1556) y
    la Reconstrucción de la Albarrada de San Lázaro
    (1555)”; Valle, Ordenanza del señor Cuauhtémoc.

  15. Carballal Staedtler and Flores Hernández,
    “El Peñón de los Baños.” See also summary of
    excavations in Margarita Carballal Staedtler and
    María Flores Hernández, “Hydraulic Features
    of the Mexico-Texcoco Lakes during the
    Postclassic Period.”

  16. Durán, History, 110–111.

  17. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Obras
    históricas, ed. Edmundo O’Gorman, 1:445. A
    later source credits “el tolteca amanteca [Huexo]

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