Tláhuac

The olive trees. During the colonial period Franciscans planted olive groves across the Tláhuac region, and several of those trees can still be seen around the edges of the borough —an unusual survival, since olive growing was later restricted in New Spain to protect Spanish producers.

A farming borough. Tláhuac sits on what was the lake bed, and it remains a producer and trader of agricultural goods: most business done at the borough offices is agricultural or commercial for that reason. The pueblos here keep their patron saint festivals and chinampa plots, and San Pedro Tláhuac has one of the city's largest Day of the Dead observances.

Getting there. The borough seat is on the main square of San Pedro Tláhuac, in the south-east of the city. Tláhuac station, the terminus of metro Line 12, is the closest, with local transport from there to the pueblos.