A bird eating a snake told us to put it here. We had no choice

@rmoises8

2 жыл бұрын

Y para cuando el partido wey?

@torresminuttijavierarmando361

2 жыл бұрын

Eseeee migala

@magtovi

2 жыл бұрын

Tío migala, qué haces aquí!!

@deltharion

2 жыл бұрын

Heeey es MIGALA Usa el poder de tu canal para organizar a las masas y lograr que empujen la ciudad a otro lado

@pablosalazarsojo3877

2 жыл бұрын

Temas para el próximo podcast: el individuo, el poder, la entropía y madre Gaia tragándose la CDMX.

Spain: *tries to conquer the Aztec’s capital The Aztecs: What are you doing in my swamp?!

@LavaCreeperPeople

2 жыл бұрын

ok

@iciajay6891

2 жыл бұрын

They teraformed the swamp to work for them. But the current city is not built to take that account. And there were fare less weight when the Aztecs lived there.

@kakalimukherjee3297

2 жыл бұрын

@@iciajay6891 ok boomer

@xanv8051

2 жыл бұрын

@@iciajay6891 let it sink into the earth, humans don't deserve it, just like the gold.

@iciajay6891

2 жыл бұрын

@@kakalimukherjee3297 I'm a millennial. Also pointing out how old you think someone is is not really something to be proud of. It just shows your really bad at dealing with conflict.

History of Mexico city: -No mame jefe es un pinché lago +Quedará mamalon

@Brandonnnn01

Жыл бұрын

No tienes nada de gracia al contrario das pena

@alexdapanda92

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@rizzoli7

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@Roberto-fg9oj

Жыл бұрын

🙈🐒🙉🇲🇽

@seed5043

Жыл бұрын

Y lo cabron es que si quedo mamalon XD... Hasta que ciertas reformas cristianas llegaron xd

Cómo ciudadano de la CDMX puedo decirte abiertamente y con toda certeza sin miedo a cometer algún error al decirte que la CDMX es un lugar que no fue planeado y creció a lo pendejo.

@trickjohnes4789

2 жыл бұрын

como mucho mexicano y la populacion de ahi

@victorrivera9789

2 жыл бұрын

Porque dices? No estan planeadas las calles ni los edificios? Aun asi creo que es muy interesante y tiene mucha historia

@PabloNavarrete5780

2 жыл бұрын

Me duele mucho los problemas geográficos de México, pero me duele más la corrupción :v La verdad esta ciudad solo creció por sus huevos sin plan alguno

@muchapiezamipueblodemexico9115

2 жыл бұрын

SERA EL SERENO Y DEMAS PRONOSTICOS PERO LA GENTE DE MI BARRIO ES MUY SOLIDARIA...ESTOY CONVENCIDO QUE NINGUN CAPITALINO DEJARA QUE ALGO LE PASE A SU BARRIO, COMO CAPITALINO SE QUE MI DISTRITO FEDERAL SEGUIRA AUNQUE SE UNDA HACIA EL CENTRO DE LA TIERRA...NUESTRA GENTE POR SU CULTURA NOS SACARA ADELANTE.

@TyberCusaa

2 жыл бұрын

@@muchapiezamipueblodemexico9115 no entiendo que tiene que ver eso con la distribución geográfica y logística de planeación urbanística de la cdmx. Quiero decir un barrio unido es genial (lo dice alguien que viene de Iztapalapa) pero de verdad no entiendo que tiene que ver con la planeación urbanística

Me, who has been living there almost his entire life: they forgot the active volcano.

@TheCrazierz

2 жыл бұрын

They mentioned it in the first 2 minutes

@Krezo200

2 жыл бұрын

Hey interested How do you like it?

@seveneleven7255

2 жыл бұрын

@MANSQUITO yes, so once in about a year we get the ashes from the Volcano and our air quality is even worse during those days

@user-qr2gd7me6c

2 жыл бұрын

Can I correct your English ? "I, who have been living here almost my entire life..."

@c0420

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-qr2gd7me6c stfu

"This is our promised land!" "But... Its water, not land." "Not with that attitude."

@xoreign

2 жыл бұрын

"Not with that altitude"*

@vasistanuvvula3705

2 жыл бұрын

@@xoreign that's what I was gonna say 😂😂😂

@letheas6175

2 жыл бұрын

the dutch be like

@johanvink2337

2 жыл бұрын

This can also be a quote from the dutch that live in polders

@rootbeer4888

2 жыл бұрын

reply

the conquest of Tenochtitlan wasn't just Spanish vs Aztecs, it was an anti-Aztec Alliance lead by Cortez and followed by the top Aztec enemies in the region, the Tlaxcaltecas and multiple other vassal cities rebelling against Aztec rule. There were only 600 Spanish soldiers and thousands of Indigenous enemies of the Aztecs. Tenochtitlan was just half of the island the other half was Tlatelolco a different city with a different ruler but it was also Mexica.

Tenochtitlan was also a waste-free city. Unlike London or other european cities at the time, they had a very proficient system for organic and inorganic waste disposal. The water was clean and everyone showered regularly.

@marcinvas7965

Жыл бұрын

Lucky them in Europe at that time people used to shower once a year....

@helrem

Жыл бұрын

At the same time that they deforested other regions and waged wars to get slaves, yes, Tenochtitlan was paradise

@Travelsandmore333

Жыл бұрын

@@helrem and at the same time Europeans were burning people alive and throwing poop out their windows

@helrem

Жыл бұрын

@@Travelsandmore333 Like burning people is exclusive to there lol

@helrem

Жыл бұрын

@@Travelsandmore333 Who would have thought that those who taught the Indians to dress themselves were shitting like dogs in the street. wow darwinism

Italy: We got a leaning tower. Mexico: Amateurs

@roberthipolito1351

2 жыл бұрын

not to mention the cool eagle symbol on the flag

@Cjnw

2 жыл бұрын

Normie

@birdsfly7199

2 жыл бұрын

@@roberthipolito1351 As a Mexican, I truly do think our flag is the dopest out of them all.

@sm3675

2 жыл бұрын

We have multiple leaning towers 😭😭😫🤞

@l0remipsum991

2 жыл бұрын

"hold my tequila"

Patrick: “Why don’t we take Mexico City and push it somewhere else!”

@GameCrafters11

2 жыл бұрын

Well, some months ago another eagle started eating a serpent on the top of a cactus in South Africa. The signal is there, now we just need to push the city there.

@settingsun3470

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping I would find this!

@darraghcorr2520

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, I was about to comment that. I decided to scroll through the comments to see if someone else already did, because I didn't want to steal someone else's comment.

@MrMywishlist

2 жыл бұрын

@@darraghcorr2520 It’s totally fine if you want to make similar comment.

@rayelgatubelo

2 жыл бұрын

Toluca: Hey, quit throwing your garbage over here!

In Cortés' diaries, Cortés expressed his amazement and admiration at seeing such a wonderful city. The Aztec Empire had clean water, they could bathe, they had food and canals that worked perfectly, but they did not take advantage of the city as it was.

I live in Mexico City and because of the fragile terrain (you can go to the downtown and see how the cathedral and many buildings are sinking) the earthquakes are specially destructive here, literally makes you feel like you're stand on a jelly. Everyone fears them.

"Imagine your house sinking 30 meters" Me, who lives below the sea-level already: _uhh, I'd rather not_

@bkgames2

2 жыл бұрын

Ur Dutch arent you?

@LavaCreeperPeople

2 жыл бұрын

NICE

@amicloud_yt

2 жыл бұрын

@@bkgames2 Or Floridian. edit: lol damn just checked their channel. they dutch alright

@nevaeh9125

2 жыл бұрын

@@amicloud_yt "After living here for years, a Miami Florida Man realizes that he's been living at sea level all this time!"

@LPPokefan

2 жыл бұрын

Wait no "GEKOLONISEERD" yet?

Extremely sad that we can't ever see this aztec city

@LavaCreeperPeople

2 жыл бұрын

ok

@SuperEone1

2 жыл бұрын

They were far from good, but genocide is never the answer. A relative to this is if after the nazis were defeated the allies closed Berlin and killed 90% of the population by starvation and disease

@exotic3755

2 жыл бұрын

Hello

@KingOfThePiratesOfTheHill

2 жыл бұрын

@@jankerwankerpankerlankerda2007 except the Aztecs were the buff badass Chad's and the Spaniards were the small nerdy kid who used technology to win.... (Edit*) "except the Aztecs were the buff badass Chad's and the Spaniards were the small nerdy kid who used technology, STRATEGIES*, KNOWLEDGE* to win...."

@tecumsehzacateco8798

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingOfThePiratesOfTheHill the Spainards only won against the Aztecs. Mega chads chichimecas beat them

As a mexicain the lives in mexico city in our history class were taught that during the colonial period they tried to move the capital from mexico city to somewhere in Puebla because of the massive floodings and the spread of deseases and they even started the construction copies of important buildings in that place but at the last moment the king of spain told them that they would stay in mexico city and they just obey

Mexico City does have one huge geographic advantage. The weather is great all year around, heating and cooling costs are very low compared to most other places.

@victoraguirre5545

Жыл бұрын

A writer named Jorge Ibargüengoitia said that the tourist from Mexico city was easily recognizable because wherever he arrived the first thing he would do was going to complain about the weather. Here we usually say (I'm myself born and raised here) that the city has only three weathers: goddamned sun, goddamned rain and goddamned cold (pinche sol, pinche lluvia, pinche frío), but truth be told It's far from the hottest, coldest or rainiest city in Mexico alone, we just are so used to benign weather that anything above 27° or below 14° Celsius (80-57°F) annoys us.

@Texan_christian1132

4 күн бұрын

Yep

“Imagine your house 30 m lower” The Netherlands 🇳🇱: 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

@stxrrymidnight

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@elgranfreezer9117

2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's why it's called Netherlands, Lol.

@vincent5880

2 жыл бұрын

Me, a Dutchman who lives on 210m: 'I see no issue'

@smqrtie3838

2 жыл бұрын

@@vincent5880 Limbo?

@vincent5880

2 жыл бұрын

@@smqrtie3838 helaas wel

Mexico City's government: "And how can we solve this problem?" Real Life Lore: "Do you know about SKILLSHARE...?"

@managed9348

2 жыл бұрын

Here before this comment hits 100 likes

@ZvenoGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@managed9348 same

@mfra959

2 жыл бұрын

@@managed9348 85 likes now

@YourPhysicsSimulator

2 жыл бұрын

@@managed9348 xd

@youravaragemexican1293

2 жыл бұрын

You think our goverment cares ? They only care about stealing money

As a Filipino I have always been fascinated by Mexico City ever since as a child and it's still my dream destination in the Americas..

@ivananarchy17

Жыл бұрын

come babe

@adriangarcia7890

Жыл бұрын

Well! Mexico City waiting for you to enjoy!

@charliervrs

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful city, beautiful country. I’ve made the decision to got at least once a year every year!

@seb_foster

Жыл бұрын

We will always welcome you with open arms my friend.

@xxVillaManxx

Жыл бұрын

In America* it's just a one continent called America, North America, Central America and South America are regions

Reading some comments from experts in the matter, I have to say, well done in this informative video about the city I was born but did not grow up in. I would like to know why you guys did not add your research notes. It would have given it a more powerful statement. Regardless, thank you for such a great job! Teotihuacan is the most fantastic place in México City. There are two main pyramids for those who have not been there, The Sun and The Moon pyramids. Standing on top of the Moon pyramid, one can appreciate an incredible view called by the Aztecs the "Avenida de Los Muertos" or "The Avenue of the Deaths." A sight to see!

It didn't sucked until some crazy guy thought about building a city literally above an already perfectly built city

@Mrmaverickism

2 жыл бұрын

Almost all old cities are built above old cities. I've seen basements with a front door. Look into it!

@KingNoTail

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrmaverickism lol

@BZtheAnti

2 жыл бұрын

It always sucked

@privateaccount622

2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t suck* not trying to be an asshole just a casual correction :)

@downsidebrian

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrmaverickism "mostly, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was Ankh-Morpork."

Venice: I'm sinking in the ocean; Mexico City: I'm sinking in the earth.

@sirBrouwer

2 жыл бұрын

The Netherlands: Been there, done that and have a shirt. now lets build us some more waterways and some extra land.

@t.c.4321

2 жыл бұрын

Venice is sinkimg into a sea not an ocean

@Just4Kixs

2 жыл бұрын

Jakarta has entered the chat.

@ares8223

2 жыл бұрын

@@t.c.4321 still going underwater

@rafaelalodio5116

2 жыл бұрын

Tom Cayzer Every sea is a part of an ocean

Really interesting, thank you for this video, even the sponsorship segment brought something good (motivation!)

Aztecs: Look at this incredible city we decided to build here, it's an architectural marvel- Spaniards: *destroys it* Aztecs: .... Spaniards: Oh no! The Spaniards proceeding to build a new city and shrinks the lake: _Anyway_ By the way, Mexica is pronounced "Meshika"

@casanova8762

2 жыл бұрын

Im glad we Spaniards put the mexicans living down mountains ahahah 💪

@LaJessy29

Жыл бұрын

Yea yes yes!!

@antoni-olafsabater9729

Жыл бұрын

U re right

A couple days ago me and my dad where talking about Mexico and my father told me how Mexico's capital is slowly going down, at first I didn't really understand what he meant, that is untill I saw this video

@spacedoutorca4550

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand why “Mexico’s capital is slowly” would be confusing lmao

@sharifnasser7635

2 жыл бұрын

Its slowly WHAT aistis? cmon..

@ilikecookies5043

2 жыл бұрын

Think he meant slowly sinking

@Aistislol

2 жыл бұрын

@@sharifnasser7635 sorry xd, I hate my phone

@GoogleAccount-pi9ct

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

so you're telling me that the aztecs had a metropolitan city with the population size of boston perfectly suited to their environment and the spaniards came and short-sightedly imposed their european building methods onto the city and it was a disaster? 🤔

@v.m.m.7729

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds about WHITE!

@showmeyamoves6427

2 жыл бұрын

@@v.m.m.7729 NOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST CROSS AN OCEAN, FORM A COALITIAN ALLIANCE, AND DEFEAT US IN BATTLE. YOU CANT JUST BUILD A MODERN MEGOPLIS ONTOP OF OUR PYRAMIDS NOOOOOOOOOO STOOOOOOP

@edwardsallow8931

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, it makes perfect sense to build street instead of rivers when you have stuff like farm animals, metallurgy or maybe the damn wheel.

@brettfloyd4291

2 жыл бұрын

@@v.m.m.7729 you do know all throughout history, people of all colors fought wars and conquered each other? You sound about IGNORANT

@v.m.m.7729

2 жыл бұрын

@@brettfloyd4291 Ok mayonnaise

Así es, lo que dice nuestro estimado amigo es verdad. Gracias por informar acerca del tema, incluso para los que somos mexicanos, hay información que desconocíamos. Gracias! Saludos desde Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

@NYGMA769

2 жыл бұрын

La desinformación abunda amigovahora mismo he visto varios comentarios tirando mier** al que hizo el video cuando realmente esta diciendo la verdad

@miguelangelrosalesreyes5801

Жыл бұрын

Cómo siempre los tapatíos bajandosr los pantalones con cualquier extranjero. "Cosas q no sabíamos". Pues tu . Por algo ya son la tercera ciudad del país Saludos de Monterrey

@alejandrochavez9280

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelangelrosalesreyes5801 Completamente desubicado tu comentario. Nada tiene que ver que sea de Guadalajara. Simplemente lo saludé respetuosamente y le dije de dónde van los saludos. Me pareces un Regio simple, común y corriente tratando de sobresalir en algo que nada tiene que ver. De igual forma, y por educación, te regreso el saludo.

@Szerbijn

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelangelrosalesreyes5801 Muy de acuerdo... la identidad mejicana es la que dictan los extranjeros y todavía hay quien les "agradece".

@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelangelrosalesreyes5801 siempre generalizas de forma absurda para exponer tus patéticos puntos de vista?

This sounds like more of a management problem than a geography problem. The area has fertile soil and incredible conditions for agriculture. Modernizing their transportation and water management systems basically solve all their problems. Replace cars with public transit and cycling, tear up all that concrete that cars were previously using, and suddenly you can replenish the aquifer again. Throw in some intentional water retention and dams to manage flooding to speed up the process, if you want, but it's certainly not an impossible project.

@pandorabox5532

Жыл бұрын

Trust me, most of Mexico's problems are indeed management problems. We have so many natural resources, wonderful climatic and geographical conditions, yet, for centuries the organized crime and the government (that for the most part are not so different from each other) have mostly deterred or obstaculized several efforts to modernise and optimise our systems. Many good projects that could drastically better our quality of life haven't come to fruition simply because they were in conflict with the interests from a bunch of shortsighted influential people.

@alejandrogibran7823

Жыл бұрын

yeahhh the mexican government is horrible, it is filled with useless people that cant even properly make plans for a project before setting it in motion (many projects recive set back after set back thanks to this) seeing a professional or someone get punished for a big fuck up is rare, not to mention if they ever care and politic the way for a project like this to be made

@erickrodriguez4269

Жыл бұрын

I would say that is the combination of 3 things: management, corporations lobbying, and of course corruption.

Imagine how beautiful it must have been, a city up in the mountains, is an island in a lake. It's a paradox of every degree. I don't want to blame anyone, but destroying a city so beautiful, is cruelty beyond words.

@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

2 жыл бұрын

that is unfortunately the way of colonization

@marcoshernandez3964

2 жыл бұрын

Los estadounidenses destruyeron culturas, religiones, esclavizaron, puedo seguir bobo

@indigenousspinster_6665

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcoshernandez3964 España*, Los Estadounidenses no hicieron daño considerado a la magnitud de España a los pueblos originarios del país actual de México. De seguro eres simpatizante por España 🤦🏽‍♀️

@hopin8krzys

2 жыл бұрын

Why wouldnt you want to blame those who did it?

@aldovirgen2164

2 жыл бұрын

I'm mexican and we are still wondering the same. When you're arriving by bus to the city, you can't help but to imagine that same scenario. And yes, we're still getting flooded from time to time lol

Flying into Mexico City is still one of the craziest things I've seen. It's pretty much dense buildings as far as you can see. If you ever get the chance to visit, make sure to keep an eye out the window when landing or taking off

@kikeeseesel

2 жыл бұрын

Just out of curiosity, what is your home town?

@NaohMkS

2 жыл бұрын

For sure, the night view is pretty amazing too. The city is so huge and dense you can see a cluster of undulating lights for quite a while

@paulmoon5344

2 жыл бұрын

Try not to fly in or out in the afternoon to avoid the thunder storms in rainy season.

@lincolnguy1483

2 жыл бұрын

It’s also one of the filthiest cesspools In the world. Full of ignorance, poverty and despair. Know it fairly well.

@Anonymous-wy5dc

2 жыл бұрын

@@lincolnguy1483 Are you those guys they call "mamon"?

some missing data: it was not just one lake, it was a lake system made up of 5 lakes: Texcoco, Chalco, Xochimilco, Xaltocan y Zumpango

This isn't racist, this is true

That eagle must have been like: We do a little trolling.

@alis924

2 жыл бұрын

The biggest troller

@hectorzero8545

2 жыл бұрын

If you know anything about Aztec gods this is pretty par for the course. Going to an Aztec god for peace and prosperity is like going to Zeus for marriage advice. Just....do the opposite lol.

@louisskulnik7390

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Seems like the eagle led them to build a veritable paradise. Someone just came and ruined it.

@plazmica0323

2 жыл бұрын

@@louisskulnik7390 how do we know if it was paradise ? maybe it was hear ripping out of chest on top of temples hellhole for all we know

@louisskulnik7390

2 жыл бұрын

@@plazmica0323 wasn’t that the Mayans? It is all relative. Compared to what happened after I am sure it was a pretty ok place to live in that time period. I would have rather been there than London, to be sure.

I remember a meme that I saw that was like this: “We will build the city here” “Chief it’s a lake” “Oh it’s going to be dope”

@thomashaeyen6942

2 жыл бұрын

"But chief, why?" "A bird just ate a snake." "Roger-Roger."

@SeiPR727

2 жыл бұрын

"Va a quedar mamalona" XD

@josesanchezcarrillo9234

2 жыл бұрын

@@SeiPR727 jefe, es pinche lago

@ffl989

2 жыл бұрын

Quedará mamalona El meme se arruina en ingles xd

@eefm99

2 жыл бұрын

"Quedará mamalona"

Given there's too much rain: Instead of rebuilding, when they raze old buildings they could replace them with fairly deep minilakes/reservoirs. It would collect rain from the immediate area, and if deep enough little would be wasted in evaporation (to deal with too much rain I guess they would use whatever runoffs are in place already). When there's enough of these ponds, they could be connected underground to merge them into effectively bigger reservoirs, and after a number of them are connected you could choose any one of them to source water in some local area. Eventually the city would be checkered with these lakes, catching a good portion of the rainwater, and some could be connected via surface canals to create waterways, sort of going back to its origins. The tradeoff would be less real estate, a somewhat shrinking city. Reminds me a bit of Tomb raider I architecture. The standing water though might be a problem, how do keep it from getting dirty. Maybe with enough fish it would be fine.

I love México City, 500 years after of it's foundation is becoming one of the best cities in the world to live in. That's why many gringos are choosing Mexico City to live and develop their professional carrier today.

@Breh3543

Жыл бұрын

gentrification

Conclusion: Aztec engineers were better than Spanish engineers

@pezcadron6364

2 жыл бұрын

i live there, and yes

@fuzzylogic5494

2 жыл бұрын

Word

@anon2427

2 жыл бұрын

Of course they were better in their own homeland, doubt they could’ve built Madrid though.

@cloudboysmusic5223

2 жыл бұрын

@@anon2427 Madrid is basic AF

@sebastien4908

2 жыл бұрын

All ancient civilizations were better engineers than the medieval Europeans lmao

Imagine being the bird that caused the creation of Mexico City and is now on their flag

@eduardocortes4317

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a Golden Eagle

@zorrostark375

2 жыл бұрын

imagine that the stars that some of them represent stolen states of Mexico are on the American flag

@rlemus7559

2 жыл бұрын

😲😲😲😲

@sjxn310

2 жыл бұрын

The eagle thing is just a romantic legend, the real reason the city was founded where it is is because that's the only place the Aztecs were allowed to settle. The nomadic tribe mentioned on the video that founded the city was loathed by all the other civilizations living in Central Mexico, they were kicked out of everywhere and eventually sent to a swampy lake full of snakes, that's where they founded their city, the tribe then became an empire and that's when they came up with the eagle legend.

@gorrocruz9248

2 жыл бұрын

@@sjxn310 True, but why didn’t they settle in Tijuana then?

Cualquiera : no se puede construir ahí... Azteca: ¿Cómo chingados no? B|

9:42 that blue car is giving me anxiety

Eagle eating snake on a cactus: "What have I done"

@stephenjohn2131

2 жыл бұрын

Oh God you made me spit my coffee during breakfast on my uniform. My day is ruined but the laughter i had says it was totally worth it! Thank you!

@itisicountolaf.yournewguar6111

2 жыл бұрын

😁

@champanzee6486

2 жыл бұрын

@Uncle RoRo *White

@Eater_of_Souls

2 жыл бұрын

@@champanzee6486 uncle RoRo purposely misspelled white because the word can be “triggering” to people of color. It’s silly, but I guess we have to deal with it.

@champanzee6486

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eater_of_Souls Seems like everything is offensive nowadays.

Imagine how beautiful a city that would have been if they didn't fill in the lake. Imagine a city with Venice-like canals in Mexico.

@herrera1856

2 жыл бұрын

It used to be know like that before. It was know as the Venice of Mexico 🇲🇽

@joseorozco4152

2 жыл бұрын

@@herrera1856 Venice should be renamed the Xochimilco of Europe

@decosmico3998

2 жыл бұрын

Spanish ppl didn’t know how the lake worked, aztecs had a complex system to avoid floods n they polluted the lake instead

@Raja-bz4yw

2 жыл бұрын

Venice is sinking too though

@moshpitsonly2778

2 жыл бұрын

@@Raja-bz4yw same idea from the same people

In a way, the ground in Mexico City is like a ridiculous giant jelly.... the subway is like the fruit inside the jelly and the buildings, depending on whether they were built properly or not, are like fruit or cream, so you have an idea of how the city works with earthquakes.

That traffic shot at 9:34 gave me anxiety 😂

I’m an urban designer from Mexico City and I’m impressed on how well informed this video is, you did a great job on your research! Maybe the only two things that you miss were 1. After the 5 years flood, they decided not to move the city because it was culturally, politically and religiously the most important area of the region. 2. The Mexico City water system is the longest (in time) and largest (in size) project that the city and probably the continent has ever had. The construction of the water system in order to drain the lakes started a few years after the Spanish conquer the city in 1521 and it roughly ended until the late 1800s, (almost 100 years after Mexico became independent) took more than 300 years to complete due to the difficult terrain, the technology of the time, the size of the project and other factors.

@YourPhysicsSimulator

2 жыл бұрын

This should get pinned

@TheSpeederist

2 жыл бұрын

Nice job mate

@lamasbelladelmundo

2 жыл бұрын

Correction: The Spanish didn't conquer the Aztecs; it was the Tlaxcalans and other tribes. The Spanish were just another tribe that joined the Tlaxcalans. Then small pox hit and the Spanish took credit for the fall of the Aztec Empire.

@fgarciz

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Esteban! What agency do you work for? Or do you work directly for gov?

@Funtastik25

2 жыл бұрын

@@lamasbelladelmundoI died at this commrnent. lol

Number one victory royale Yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout to get down (get down) Ten kills on the board right now Just wiped out Tomato Town My friend just got downed I revived him, now we're heading south-bound Now we're in the Pleasant Park streets Look at the map, go to the marked sheet … Take me to your Xbox to play Fortnite …

@k.r.99

2 жыл бұрын

,,Birds are always right. ☝️"

@MyKharli

2 жыл бұрын

@@k.r.99 better than that vindictive fear mongering bible some people go by .

@bong2020able

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you 👍 even thou I have leaved here for 6 years. I am very afraid of the sinking CDMX land. The city never in my heart. Going away soon. Shoo.. Shame

@neytiritetskahamoatite7688

2 жыл бұрын

​@@bong2020able Not before u climb the Popocatepetl. Don't miss the opportunity !!!

@Elitecommando501

2 жыл бұрын

Always trust the bird 🦅

One note: There were 5 lakes not one. Lakes Zumpango, Xaltocan, Texcoco, Chalco and Xochimilco. Very shallow all. During the intense raining season, these lakes would interconnect. The combined surface when full was aprox 1140 square km or 441 square miles

How did you make that thumbnail! So cool!

Who would have guessed draining an entire enormous lake would be bad

@luisderivas6005

2 жыл бұрын

Have you asked Walt Disney? Worked out pretty well for Disneyworld.

@degeus6917

2 жыл бұрын

The Dutch drained parts of the north-sea and its working fine here;)

@pashauzan

2 жыл бұрын

@@degeus6917 Unlike the Spanish, you guys actually know how to do that

@degeus6917

2 жыл бұрын

@@pashauzan Indeed, that's why we drowned the Spanish many times during the 80 years independence war.

@TemporalandReaty

2 жыл бұрын

California did the same thing and made farmland out of the lakebed, now they have droughts most of the time.

Ancient Geographists: "It's impossible to build here" Badass Aztecs: "Hold my pulque"

@joelcomer

2 жыл бұрын

Lolll

@fernandolopess6035

2 жыл бұрын

best comment ever !!!

@soraakahymn9443

2 жыл бұрын

*PILLAR MEN THEME INTENSIFIES*

@INGLEASY

2 жыл бұрын

"hold my pulque" HAHAHA what a gem!

@cachifli870

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it mezcal?

Tenochtitlan was builted just on 194 years, enough to become the most powerful city of the ancient world

Moctezuma: Aqui mero construirenos nuestra ciudad (We will built our city right here) Chichicota: No mame jefe es un pinche lago (WTF boss it's a fucking lake) Moctezuma: Quedara mamalon (It would be even cooler)

@Donnovan333

2 жыл бұрын

Jajajajaja, justo pensé en eso XDDDDDD

@atrece13

2 жыл бұрын

Quedará mamalon

Eagle: Finally, I’ve got a good meal. I’ll just lounge on this cactus here and eat it. Years later: This is why Mexico City has been sinking 0.5 meters each year

@readmyusernamecauseitssoreally

2 жыл бұрын

So let's build a time machine to go back in time, become one with the Mexican tribe and try to make the prophecy different. How about a bobcat eating a rodent? Cats hate water, it's genius!

@somecallmeelvis

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing goes to Jakarta Indonesia both Mexico City and Jakarta both sinking every year

@imdonkeykonga

2 жыл бұрын

@@somecallmeelvis no wonder! i mean, the planet is like that, if you want to build atop the water you gonna sink eventually

@ihearttoast8162

2 жыл бұрын

@@readmyusernamecauseitssoreally Nice idea

@anomalocaris7436

2 жыл бұрын

@@readmyusernamecauseitssoreally Or tell the spanish to build the city somewhere else

-"We will build the city here" -"Boss, its a fucking lake" -"it's going to be mamalon" And so it was.

@gilbert6943

2 жыл бұрын

KAJAJAJA me acuerdo de cuando vi ese meme en español

@drunkenone1699

2 жыл бұрын

jjjaja mamalon xd

@christianramos4125

2 жыл бұрын

Excelente JAJAJA

@johanvink2337

2 жыл бұрын

lelystad right? no wait that was sea..... any polder city in the netherlands

@omarvi280

2 жыл бұрын

@@drunkenone1699 Como lograste traducirlo?

How much time do you spend making a video like this? Or how much do you pay someone to make it?

Whenever I clean or replace my HEPA filters I know what I'm going to find but every time I'm like holy Jesus

Funfact: Mexico has a cool tradition of having some hardcore world-class civil engineers, one of the buffest one's Bernardo Quintana, who designed the modern waterworks + anti-sinking master plan for México City back in the 60's, the project is so massive, complex, detailed and elegant that to this day no one dares redesign it, nevermind touch it when planning for future developments, etc.

@allemon93

2 жыл бұрын

Considering the city is sinking at that pace maybe the plan should be looked at

@jacob4920

2 жыл бұрын

@@allemon93 Or perhaps... the project is working, and Mexico City would otherwise be a desolate HOLE IN THE GROUND by now, if it was never implemented!

@allemon93

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacob4920 yeah and also lets remember that mexican authorities arent always the best at following well structured and long term projects. There was also the plan for highways that would make the gringos envy but all we got is Viaducto, the Rapid Pair (Patriotismo and Revolucion) and some disconected (and badly jointed) areas of Periferico

@santiguerra8949

2 жыл бұрын

@@allemon93 nada fresco el gobierno

@DDRWakaLaka

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacob4920 if it's sinking this much, it's clearly not working, Jake

“Down to the level of Los Angeles” So it’s still terrible

@nayhboseguera1774

2 жыл бұрын

Well a city of 24 million having the same air quality as a city of 14 million isn’t a failure either

@anon2427

2 жыл бұрын

@@nayhboseguera1774 when the city of 14 million is known to many as the worst city in the country, there’s room for improvement for the other one.

@seanthe100

2 жыл бұрын

Los Angeles actually significantly reduced air pollution over the last 30 years.

@mml1426

2 жыл бұрын

@@anon2427 Los Angeles the worst city in the country? Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! Hahahaha! Los Angeles is literally the richest city in the country after New York. It’s literally the 2nd most visited city. It has more natural parks around than anywhere else in the country. I’m not even from Los Angeles, I’m from Dallas, Texas, but saying Los Angeles is the worst city in the country is plain stupid. Anywhere in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, or hell, even here in Texas is worse than Los Angeles.

@MessiVsRonaldofan19

2 жыл бұрын

@@mml1426 you do realize they weren’t talking about the city itself, right? They were talking about the air pollution levels in LA.

Now I need a video about Acapulco please!

When a city's position is so good that it had to be nerfed

@omargerardolopez3294

2 жыл бұрын

My man...

"they've managed to reduce their air pollution levels to be similar to Los Angeles" thats still pretty fuckin awful

@nashaun3885

2 жыл бұрын

I know L.A air is pretty nasty

@alexsmith1207

2 жыл бұрын

Considering Mexico City is whopping mega populated.

@lariosmendoza

2 жыл бұрын

Los Angeles air smells like piss

@m.a.d.m.5425

2 жыл бұрын

Misery loves company haha

@OccupyHeaven

2 жыл бұрын

But honestly LA was better, I left Mexico City in 1993, it was literally deadly and disgusting. I had terrible respiratory issues because of the pollution growing up there. Then moved to Los Angeles area in my teens and all my respiratory issues went away. Few allergies here and there. The air quality is not the best in LA but way better than Mexico City. I think both places are now almost the same, Mexico has come along way.

Can you talk about the subway system in Mexico City? it's quite an interesting topic!

I would peer out that concrete which is blocking water and deposit those in one of the unclaimed lands which you mentioned, and replace that with brick tiles which water can penetrate. If that's impossible, I can create rain water injecting drills in to the ground around feasible points of the city .

Lake Texcoco was once an ideal place to build a city with the right technology. The climate was great, the reclaimed land was arable, and rainfall was pretty good. Also, it was a very strategic location.

@TheCrazierz

2 жыл бұрын

This

@ernyguerra1195

2 жыл бұрын

Sucks Spaniards wanted to bring their faulty engineering to a different continent and mess everything up

@newbie4789

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds more like WASTED POTENTIAL

@faisal35i92

2 жыл бұрын

Until the spaniards came ☠️

@biomutant1468

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’m glad the video mentioned it, it’s really sad the the crown ruined it, apparently there were even spaniards who wanted to keep regional engineering practices going but the crown asked for a typical spanish town to be built on top. Such a shame because now the city is basically guaranteed to collapse within our lifetime.

Just a small correction: the entirety of Mexico City is not sinking, only the old parts that are located in the former lake bed. I live in the southern part of the city were everything is basically volcanic soil.

@Dom-hi8lb

2 жыл бұрын

How’s the water problem, any better?

@DarkNightLight68

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dom-hi8lb It also depends. In my neighborhood water shortages are not that common, but other more densely populated areas like the borough of Iztapalapa suffer from water shortages more often

@AllisonChains64

2 жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to visit the actual D.F. but I've only ever been to Chalco because that's where my extended family lives. I've also been to Puebla and San Luis Potosí as those are my parents' birthplaces, but as far as cities go I've only been to Chalco

@diegoroberto1347

2 жыл бұрын

Fuentes: el gobierno

@Chocochip100

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllisonChains64 I just went in May and it is 100% worth the trip. There is so much to see and do. I can't wait to go back! 😊

I believe there is also a very dangerous volcano nearby , like in Naples

3:04 "Without discovering any practical use for the wheel". Let me tell you that the Aztecs did know the wheel but they did not use it because of their beliefs, they firmly believed in the circle of life, for them the spiritual was of the utmost importance, they were not stupid, they invented 0 and built pyramids on the tops of hills as is the case of Xochimilco, they knew how to move material without the use of the wheel.

It would be cool to see Mexico City in a different timeline made to the Aztec’s design Like Venice but a lot bigger

@luisderivas6005

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty nice, unless you're the human sacrifice that lost in the games....

@pashauzan

2 жыл бұрын

@@luisderivas6005 what

@ro.viraYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@luisderivas6005 yeah, it's a bummer when you gotta have ur heart ripped out of ur chest so that the sun may raise again tomorrow

@TuWear

2 жыл бұрын

And far more sanitary and clean, hell one can even say pleasant aromas due to the food and burning of incense wood.

@verybarebones

2 жыл бұрын

Venice is sinking too

That's why Mexicos flag is so cool, and in my opinion, the most American flag in the Americas. It still has native American iconography on it. Very cool.

@caesaraortizg539

2 жыл бұрын

thanks Dr House, miss you bro

@sabassilva8338

2 жыл бұрын

the eagle in the US seal, the talons full of arrows was copied from the Iroquois, as was our constitution. the French would refer to them as the "romans of the west" and wrote about how they were everything that the romans weren't, haha.

@rigger49er

2 жыл бұрын

Facts 💯

@nic9511

2 жыл бұрын

That was nice of them I'm sure the aztecs would have liked that

@bowens9159

2 жыл бұрын

By your logic canada is the most American flag of North America since America's wasn't a desert it was nature lol.

¿Alguien sabe de donde es la toma del minuto 7:39?/Does anyone know where the 7:39 minute shot is from?

@kQcsdN8JBUw

2 жыл бұрын

Santa Fe, parque la mexicana

A sinked city would be a great tourist place

I had a funny comment but got distracted by watching the entire video.

@diegovega3013

2 жыл бұрын

omg are you the chocolate rain guy?

@thenickstrikebetter

2 жыл бұрын

I never had one to begin with.

@fran0619

2 жыл бұрын

Chocolate Rain. Some stay dry and others feel the pain..

@Cjnw

2 жыл бұрын

Normie, the comment sucked

@philmstud2k

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, legend. Thanks for stopping by.

11:00 Pushing Mexico city somewhere else just isn't really feasible. Patrick: Let me introduce myself.

Porque la construyeron sobre un lago... Un lago.... Un puto lago!

"Oh look, a delicious snake, i think i'm going to eat it in this comfortable cactus; Hopefully this won't change a civilization's destiny or anything"

@Juanhernandez-zx7kt

2 жыл бұрын

Los aztecas sabían lo que estaban haciendo al convertir Tenochtitlán en un sistema de canales, fueron los españoles quienes decidieron que había que construir una ciudad encima de un lago sin un sistema de canales o una forma de hacer flotar las ciudades.

@aurxlea3268

2 жыл бұрын

Woops it did

@elysium76

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t the first time

@Sebastian-wz4fs

2 жыл бұрын

"O mira tenemos una letra que no tienen: Ñ

@andruaj918

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sebastian-wz4fs Ñ, soy colombiano

So, basically, from minute 3 it's not hard to tell that the problem is not the location but the method used after the conquest to urbanize and build.

@zachj6601

2 жыл бұрын

The location is terrible as well.

@189Blake

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Tenochtitlan had a sustainable model refilling the lake everytime. Then such planning of the city got lost and we have the mess that exists today, but if Mexico City had growth without Spanish intervention, around the lake and with the canals and dams system we'll had something similar to Amsterdam or Venice, which I have never heard that are "bad located" cities.

@rawn9234

2 жыл бұрын

Basically the Spanish we're kinda incompetent colonizers

@TheTfrules

2 жыл бұрын

@@rawn9234 That's putting it extremely mildly

@albertotensai

2 жыл бұрын

@@189Blake Nah, Tenochtitlan wasn’t as sustainable as we like to think. They mostly depended on the springs of Coyoacan for clean water. Understand that lake water from a swamp is really not safe for human consumption.

Tenochtitlán: **exists** Spanish Conquistadores: It's free real estate

This video in a nutshell: Everything was doing fine until the Spanish arrived

@cosmichorizon3273

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

Wow, he really took the yellow filter off of Mexico, epic.

@samuell3bara888

2 жыл бұрын

Epic

@default8274

2 жыл бұрын

Well, its actually realistic since they have high air pollution

@samuell3bara888

2 жыл бұрын

@@default8274 nah, im a mexican and the only places where the ambience looks like that is on the movies. We do have a lot of air pollution, but that's mostly in the capital so it's whatever.

@Altron01S2

2 жыл бұрын

Bold.

@humantwo2476

2 жыл бұрын

Creator this video is a stupid

Aztec: ***Sees an Eagle eating a snake*** Aztec: It's free real state

@tobiassrb4008

2 жыл бұрын

I’m dying! 😂

@emilepierre1663

2 жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Omer1996E.C

2 жыл бұрын

It was the Spanish who falsely considered it a free real estate

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7:47 _..this inefficiency of lake water being raised from the western lands ..can be avoided if small dams are built on the long canals leading east, and windmills with archimede's wheel are placed on those dams.. to keep pumping fresh water uphill, higher and higher, to locals of the Cetate (Ciudad), which has a high thirst grade, due to heat and population density.. wind from plateau will spin the windmills, and turn the spiral helix like core of the cylinder.. thus irigating or providing fresh water for the capital_ ✓

11:01 who says pushing Mexico City somewhere else isn’t feasible, they just never tried. Patrick’s suggestion to push Bikini Bottom worked.

@Carlos16ng

2 жыл бұрын

PUSHHHH!!!!!!!

@PunishedKrab

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s make this a reality

@felix_quintana

2 жыл бұрын

Actually we Chilangos are pushing the city towards Toluca, Cuernavaca, Queretaro and even Puebla. But the sinking parts stay in the same place.

Your air pollution has to be really bad for the air quality of Los Angeles to be a huge improvement

@kakalimukherjee3297

2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile me, a Delhiite: tell me 'bout it

@JoseSanchez-yp5dp

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair if the city was in sea level and on the coast it would be better than LA

@Lay.s.

2 жыл бұрын

oh man, you haven't been to Mexico city

@Myanmartiger921

2 жыл бұрын

@@kakalimukherjee3297 electric vechiles are the only way forward i guess

@youravaragemexican1293

2 жыл бұрын

A yes let’s compare LA it has ocean Mexico City dosent and Mexico City is sourraunded by mountains

Seattle gets about the same amount of rain as Chicago. Only it comes mostly as drizzle that takes a long time to come down.

3:20 imagine this, the aztek Empire was a talasocracy in the middle of the mountains that's so wird.

"So we could settle by the river where there's plenty of drinkable water, nice vegetation, and we can build boats for trade and commerce... But that swamp with the eagle killing a snake was pretty fucken METAL tho" - The first aztecs, probably

@magtovi

2 жыл бұрын

And standing on thorns! Don't forget about the thorns.

@dan_38

2 жыл бұрын

The narrator forgot to mention it was literally the ONLY spot left in the entire lake they could take, because it wasn't just the Aztecs there, but roughly ten other communities surrounding the lake that were later taken over by the aztecs

Native of Mexico City here. I've heard some solutions to the problem. One is that the lake must be revived. At least with some little artificial lakes near the city, and revive some artificial rivers. Which is very hard but not impossible. In the 80s a profesor conducted a proyect for an artificial lake, called Nabor Carrillo and it revived the natural bird migration. If we revive the lake to a degree, we could be restoring the equilibrium and water filtration and giving some breath to the water issue. Which let me tell you, is VERY problematic. You have a city with scarcity of water and with floodings at the same time, caus water can't pass the lake of concrete. Still a beautiful and very lovely city ♥️♥️♥️.

@dnxrru1176

2 жыл бұрын

El problema es que esta centralizado, debemos hacer que el resto del pais tenga su propio recurso para que la gente no migre a la capital

@christianvalencia4489

2 жыл бұрын

@@dnxrru1176 creo que la migración no es solo hacia la capital, mucha gente de la capital y del centro del pais migra a otros lados.

@dnxrru1176

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianvalencia4489 si, asi es de hecho como se poblo el norte del pais. Gente del sur migrando al nortre :)

@christianvalencia4489

2 жыл бұрын

@@dnxrru1176 Pero tienes un punto, muchos de los problemas de este pais es en gran parte por la centralización que manejamos.

@dolfoboynas9583

2 жыл бұрын

If China can move mountains then Mejico can rebuild a lake…a large reservoir teeming with wildlife ♥️

Ever see one of those sink hole videos? Imagine that on a city block basis.

The other kings thought it was draft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same! It sank into the swamp....

All of this wouldn't have happened if the eagle didn't thought: "Ah this cactus looks perfect to eat my hunted snake in the middle of this lake that isn't inhabited!"

@Illlium

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, an eagle just randomly touching down on a cactus to snack on some snake is one of the most metal things since the invention of bronze.

@jacob4920

2 жыл бұрын

Don't blame the eagle. Blame the Spanish. The Aztecs actually made the whole thing work, because, as primitive as they were, they were also freaking GENIUSES at building cities! But after Cortez... it's just been one disaster after another. And all because European settlers took a great idea, and promptly flushed it down the drain, in the name of conquest.

@nati4218

2 жыл бұрын

@@Illlium believe it or not, it can become a normal thing for eagles to do, so considering that at that time they were lots of eagles, we can pretty much say Aztecs started searching by the lake even though a lake is not what someone would look for when searching for a stable city with *ground*

@denzelurieta9206

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacob4920 exactly. It has always been the Westerners shoving down their idea of civilization to what is already a civilized nation.

@isaori706

2 жыл бұрын

The snake was never in the original myth. It was only a mistake the Spanish friars made when interpreting indigenous codices for myths. The eagle, a manifestation of Huitzilopochtli and the Sun, was breathing fire and water, a symbol of war, a dichotomy, called atl tlachinolli in their language. The snake never appeared in their art post-conquest times. The mistake was so big that it left a mark on the people who designed our flag.

The Ancient Aztecs looking at their city now: “look how they’ve massacred my boy”

@1370802

2 жыл бұрын

There are a few locations that haven't changed. The remnants of the main temple that was on the island of tenochtitlan is still there, although its in ruins. The temple of Tlatelolco is intact though, and has survived all these years. And my dad actually grew up in a house that was built by the aztecs. The houses had survived through to his childhood in the 1960s. It was nothing glamourous, the area was dirt poor and the houses were falling apart, covered in graffiti, and didn't even have electricity, but it's still really cool to think about. No building in the USA is that old.

@KodePurp

2 жыл бұрын

@@1370802 thank you for this input i loved reading it. My dad is from Mexico City too, and watching this video was crazy

@canofsouls282

2 жыл бұрын

@@1370802 woah thats actuallly pretty cool

@jcw5611

2 жыл бұрын

Actually they was Mexicas*

@emperormeako

2 жыл бұрын

@@1370802"No building in the USA is that old" So we gonna pretend Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings don't exist.

And what about the volcanic activity arround the city? There is one active volcano less than 100km away and 3 more waiting to be awake again.

Scientists from different institutes and universities here in Mexico had been experimenting since de 00’s with the idea of creating a new type of concrete porous enough to let water from the rain filter to the underground, so the reservoir would refill and more water would be available, but sturdy enough not to crack, unfortunately the only prototype after 20+ year only last a year or two before cracking and it’s so much expensive in comparison to regular concrete. In my humble opinion I would put most of the government budget into research and start using as much of the prototype in places with less traffic as posible. But then again Mexico government (in all levels) it’s one of the most corrupt in the world. Therefore that solution it’s near to impossible to be a practical one.

Nomadic Mexica: What are the chances of seeing an eagle eating a snake in its beak, while perched atop a cactus? Lake Texcoco: *Is That a Challenge?*

@whathell6t

2 жыл бұрын

@S V Tezcatlipoca: “Yes! It’s a challenge”. Huitzilopochi: “Get the f*ck out here, Tez. I don’t want your mischief here”.

@adrian5b

2 жыл бұрын

“Dude it’d be hilarious if we told the guys that we saw the eagle atop the lake” “BRO let’s do it”

@hulkito852

2 жыл бұрын

you know what i just realized? there probably was some in-tribal disagreement on whether to settle or continue to live nomadically so thats how they came up with this solution. Blessed were the settlers who stuck to their guns and built the first of Tenochtitlan cause from the sound of it they lived in an awesome town throughout their lifetime.

@rubiboy90

2 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as nomadic Mexicans tho

@whathell6t

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubiboy90 It's nomadic Mexica/Nahua; not Mexicans.

Any skyscraper in Mexico City is indeed a “monument.” Difficult it is to build on such land and more difficult to keep structures that high standing.

@dayra6425

2 жыл бұрын

sound like they won’t be standing much longer

@josearturocardenasjimenez2036

2 жыл бұрын

And there are very Strong earthquakes every 30 years

@alanmolina9565

2 жыл бұрын

That's why mexico has the best engineers and schools

@oscarmartinez3186

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanmolina9565 not really

@Student0Toucher

2 жыл бұрын

@@oscarmartinez3186 Definitely has some very good engineers

if they preserve the lake and create a city around it and with a good governance Mexico City will be the most beautiful city in the world today... but no, they choose to destroy the lake...

It was perfectly fine until someone came along....

I feel like most people would never think to name Mexico City when asked for the largest cities in the world, but 3000 sq miles is no joke! That's one and a half Rhode Islands! I can hardly wrap my head around it!

@86upsmaya

2 жыл бұрын

And its population of 22 millions is similar to the population of my whole country, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

@batboy555

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's huge.

@PonchoANS7

2 жыл бұрын

It's not really, that big. Metro areas in Mexico count the entire area of the municipalities that compose them, so there are unpopulated mountains, farmlands, etc. in those 3,000 square miles. The built up urban area is way smaller.

@mariedrudi4889

2 жыл бұрын

@@PonchoANS7 That is much more realistic!

@io8981

2 жыл бұрын

@@PonchoANS7 dudee it its the biggest most populated per m2 jajaajajaj si eres de mexico lo sabrias jajaj y tiene montañas llenas de casas jajajajaja cdmx o estado de mexico solo tenias que explicar eso si eres de aqui jajajaja No mam.

It is a pity that Lake Texcoco was drained, Mexico City has high altitude in the tropics and because of that, the climate is more temperate. It would be really cool if a sci fi movie was made showing an alternative Mexico City without Lake Texcoco being drain and somehow co-opted by with skyscrapers.

@1370802

2 жыл бұрын

They have rebuilt parts of the lake, like the lake of Chapultepec. I could see the idea you're talking about become reality, but with massive engineering projects. Basically it would become like Venice. And not all of the city is sinking. The two oldest neighborhoods, Azcapotzalco, and El Zocalo, were both built on land so they're good.

@MURAT-zy5eq

2 жыл бұрын

The Lake is currently being restored, fortunately.

@AlexMartinez-dc4pe

2 жыл бұрын

The current administration is rescuing the remaining of the lake

@suuperm6586

2 жыл бұрын

@@MURAT-zy5eq It’s not the entire lake though, just a few small artificial ones and mostly green areas, but it’s still a good idea because those will be used to control the constant floodings in the surrounding area and also due to the of the lack of green areas in the same, which is a concrete sea of houses and streets. It’s going to be the biggest ecological park in the world

@mitrimind1027

2 жыл бұрын

They should've just built around it, like how hard would that have been?