Capital City | Mexico City (Ciudad de Mexico) |
What time is it? | +1hr, begins first Sunday in April; ends last Sunday in October |
Capital location | 19 26 N, 99 08 W |
Capital - history | (Cuidad de Mexico) Founded by the Spanish on an island in a lake, the site of the 14th-century Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. Named, like the country, after an earlier name for the city, Metz-xih-co, meaning "in the center (literally navel) of the waters of the moon". |
Capital - time difference |
UTC-6 (1 hour behind Washington, DC, during Standard Time) Note: Mexico has four time zones |