Central Mexico

Central Mexico — the Valley of Mexico and the Bajío, the country's core for two thousand years. From Teotihuacan to the Aztec Tenochtitlan, conquered by Cortés in 1521 and rebuilt as the capital of New Spain (the richest viceroyalty of the Americas), it has always been the heart. Mexico City, now one of the world's largest urban areas, concentrates the nation's politics, art (Rivera, Kahlo) and history, while the fertile Bajío gave it mariachi, the tequila of Jalisco and the silver towns of Guanajuato and Zacatecas — the things the world pictures as 'Mexican'.

• Existed: 1521 CE – present
• Type: Entity