Route of Commerce & Tribute

Embarcadero Cuemanco: Ecological Tours of Xochimilco

Ubicaci�n Blvd Adolfo Ruíz Cortinez, Periférico Sur N/A, Col. Barrio 18.

Parks Parks

Tlatelolco Archaeological Site

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

Museums Museums

La Merced Market, Nave Mayor

Ubicaci�n Rosario 156, La Merced, Merced Balbuena, 15100 CDMX

Centro Histórico (Imperdibles)

The Pulque Museum: Museo del Pulque y las Pulquerías

Ubicaci�n Av. Hidalgo 107-109, Col Guerrero, Cuauhtémoc, 06300 CDMX

Mercados y Gastronomía (9 lugares)

Cuemanco Plant and Flower Market

Ubicaci�n Canal Nacional 2000, Coapa, Cuemanco, Xochimilco, 16036 CDMX

Coyoacán y Xochimilco (16 lugares)

Santa Cruz Acalpixca, Xochimilco

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

Towns/Neighborhoods

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.