Where was Tenochtitlan built?
The first wave of immigrants that would be known as the Aztecs, were not the first people who came to the Valley of Mexico. So the Aztecs really had the worst pickings when it came to choice of land. But that didn’t stop these people from building a city that would come to be one of the most beautiful in the continent. The city was built on the lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan grew into a big and beautiful city and at the same time, the population and the power of the Aztecs grew too. The city of Tenochtitlan was undoubtedly one of the most organized and cleanest cities to be found. According to Hernan Cortes, the conqueror himself, the city itself was very big and was comparable to Seville in Spain. All the main roads were large and perfectly sized and the smaller streets were half land, half water, thus enabling small canoes to come and go too. No doubt the city was very impressive and the Aztecs took pride in their beautiful city.
