Route of Commerce & Tribute Archives

Santa Cruz Acalpixca, Xochimilco

Ubicaci�n Calle Lázaro Cárdenas, Pueblo Santa Cruz Acalpixca, Alc. Xochimilco, 16500 CDMX

Towns/Neighborhoods

Tlatelolco Archaeological Site

Ubicaci�n Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas s/n, Col. Nonoalco Tlatelolco.

Archaeological Sites

La Ciudadela Artisan Market

Ubicaci�n Balderas, esq Emilio Donde, Colonia Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06040 CDMX

Artisan Goods

Santa María de Guadalupe Chapel, Atocpan

Ubicaci�n Xolotl 11, San Pedro Atocpan, Ocotitla, Milpa Alta, 12200 CDMX

Temples Temples

Ahuehuete El Sargento, Chapultepec

Ubicaci�n Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11100 CDMX

Public Art/Monuments

Baños de Moctezuma

Ubicaci�n Bosque de Chapultepec, Gran Avenida, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Miguel Hidalgo, 11100 CDMX

Historic Sites/Bldgs

The Route of Commerce and Tribute is intended to give visitors an idea of the scale and continuing tradition of commerce and trade within the ancient Valley of Mexico.

The Aztec Empire was supported by a network of tributary and subject states, peoples, and cities. Even long before the arrival of the Spanish, many of these peoples were long accustomed to resisting - and acquiescing - to the dominant powers in the region. What we call the Aztec Empire was the result of a Triple Alliance between the powers of ancient Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, today's Tacuba.

The symbol on each site-page is the glyph representing Tenochtitlan from the 16th-century Codex Telleriano-Remensis. The image combines the symbols for stone (te-tl) and cactus (nochtli).

Your journey is through the lifestyles, customs, traditions, production, marketing, and consumption of some of what they lived on. Who can imagine the world without chocolate and tomatoes?

This is the culture that first presented them to the world. The Route of Commerce & Tribute is a trip into that past.