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| About the Conference Location and how to get there |
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| The subway platform
in metro station "Universidad". To leave the platform,
follow the sign saying "salida", which means
"exit". |
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| When you have gone
upstairs, you will be on this bridge connecting the different
platforms. Go straight ahead and follow the signs with "salida". |
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| From the bridge, you
can see busses and taxis in all directions. The classical Mexico
City taxi is the green Volkswagen Beetle with white roof. |
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| From the bridge
there are stairways leading down to the different platforms where
you can take busses and taxis in all directions. If you want to take
a taxi, you look for this platform (Exit D from the bridge). Here
taxis line up. |
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| To take the buss to
the UPN, you must follow these signs to exit A,B and C. |
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| This is the platform
in Exit C, and the bus stop from where the busses to UPN stop. The
sign on the bus as well as the busstop is SixFlags. |
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| If you continue to
platform A, you can also take this bus to UPN from the corner. Also
this bus goes to SixFlags. Here you can also take a microbus. |
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The UPN (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional)
is located in the southern part of the city in the municipality ("Delegación")
called Tlalpan. Tlalpan is a traditional community within the limits of
the City of Mexico with a long and dramatic history. Archeological
excavations indicate that Cuiculco, the oldest settlement in Tlalpan was
founded sometime between the years 650 and 100 BC. At the time of the
Spanish conquest in the 1520s, approximately 20.000 people lived in
Tlalpan, which together with nearby Xochimilco was a major center for
agricultural production, producing for the markets of the imperial Capital
of México-Tenochtitlan and its sister sister Tlaltelolco.
| The major pyramid of Cuiculco had
monumental dimensions: a diameter of 80 meters and a height of 20
meters. The ruins of the pyramid are located where Insurgentes
Avenue crosses the Periferico Ring Road, (approximately 10 minutes
or less from the the UPN by taxi or bus). More information about the
archaeological site is available here
(in Spanish). Excavations in the site started in the 1960s during
the construction of the Olympic Village that housed the participants
in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. |
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The word Tlalpan is
Nahuatl and means "Place of firm land" Tlalpan was given
this name by its neighbours because Tlalpan unlike most other old settlements
in the Valley of Mexico, was not located along the
shores of the Lake of Tezcoco, but in the hillside and therefore the
inhabitants grew their maize in regular fields and not in chinampas
(raised garden beds in swampland and shallow water) as in
Xochimilco. |
| The glyph representing Tlalpan in
the codexes |
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 How
to get to the conference |
| By Public Transportation |
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Universidad (Línea 3: Indios
Verdes - Universidad) |
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| Participants using public transportation
to get to the conference are recommended to take the subway (metro) to
station "Universidad" (University). This is the last station on
the green line (Linea 3: Indios Verdes - Universidad) that crosses the
entire city from the North to the South. The price for a metro ticket is
2.00 pesos (approximately 20 US cents or 15 Euro-cents) regardless of
distance or number of transfers within the metro system. The metro runs
continuously between 5 o'clock in the morning until midnight with frequent
departures (approximately a new train arrives every 90 seconds) so there
are no metro schedules or time tables.
When you leave the subway station, you
will find a number of bus stops and taxi stands just in front. There you
must look for a bus with the designation "Six Flags" (which is
an entertainment park just behind the University). Usually the sign is
very visible and painted on top of the front window, or there will be a
sign in the front window. In addition to "Six Flags" the bus
will have smaller signs with “El Colegio de México”, "UPN",
and sometimes “Torres” (de Padierna). The bus driver will let you out
just in front of the main entrance of the UPN. If you take a microbus the
bus fare will be 2.50 pesos. If you take a bigger regular bus, the fare
will be 3.50 pesos.
If you take a taxi from one of the taxi
stands in front of the metro station, the fare is likely to be between
10.00 and 25.00 pesos (maximum 2.40 US $).
Group Shuttle
Every day at 9:00 during the conference,
we will arrange group transportation from the metro to the conference.
More information and details will be available soon. |
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Map of the area: |
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Metro System Mexico City |
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