Mixcoac

Mixcoac is an area of southern Mexico City which used to be a separate town and municipality within the Mexican Federal District until it was made part of Mexico City proper (the Departamento Central at the time in 1928. Mixcoac consists of the colonias (official neighborhoods) of Nonoalco, San Juan, Extremadura Insurgentes, Mixcoac and Insurgentes Mixcoac and is part of Benito Juárez borough. It is located between Avenida de los Insurgentes on the east and the Periférico freeway on the west, south of Colonia Nápoles and San Pedro de los Pinos.