Iztacalco

Iztacalco
Borough
Top: Ignacio Zaragoza Avenue; Middle: San Matías Monastery, Iztacalco Borough Hall; Bottom: San Matías main plaza; Palacio de los Deportes
Seal
Iztacalco within Mexico City
Coordinates: 19°23′43″N 99°05′52″W / 19.39528°N 99.09778°W / 19.39528; -99.09778
Country	Mexico
Federal entity	Mexico City
Established	1928
Named for	Pre-Columbian city
Seat	Río Churubusco y Avenida Té. Col. Ramos Millán, Iztacalco
Government
• Mayor	Raúl Armando Quintero Martínez (MORENA)
Area [1]
• Total	23.21 km2 (8.96 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	2,242 m (7,356 ft)
Population  (2020).[1]
• Total	404,695
• Density	17,000/km2 (45,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)
Postal codes	08000 – 08930
Area code	55
HDI (2020)	0.835 Very High [2]
Website	[1]

Iztacalco (Spanish: [istaˈkalko] ^ⓘ) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. It is located in the central-eastern area and it is the smallest of the city's boroughs. The area's history began in 1309 when the island of Iztacalco, in what was Lake Texcoco, was settled in 1309 by the Mexica who would later found Tenochtitlan, according to the Codex Xolotl. The island community would remain small and isolated through the colonial period, but drainage projects in the Valley of Mexico dried up the lake around it. The area was transformed into a maze of small communities, artificial islands called chinampas and solid farmland divided by canals up until the first half of the 20th century. Politically, the area has been reorganized several times, being first incorporated in 1862 and the modern borough coming into existence in 1929. Today, all of the canals and farmland are dried out and urbanized as the most densely populated borough and the second most industrialized.