Tenochtitlan a Magical Place Still Undiscovered

According to the Tira of the Peregrinación (a script of the talks of the way for the aztecs to tenochtitlan) the aztecs went out from Aztlan commanded by Tenoch, their lider. The name of the city tributes Tenoch. This happend around the year 1168 after the fall of Tula by the hands of nomadic tribes of Aridoamerica.

This versions concurs with the version of the Mexica's stories and the religeous reform of Tlacaelel ath the begginings of the XV century that destroyed all not glorious past of the Mexicas. What newly investigations had been clear about is that the Mexicas were the last ethnic group of the nahua and inmigrantes of Aridoamerica to reach the lake of Texcoco.

In this lake 6 groups were already settled, mexicas took knowledge from this groups. They were expelled various times by the Acolhuas, the culhuas, and the Tecpanecas, until they were permited by this groups to settle in a poor and lonely island.

Izcoatl is considered the first tlatoanu of Tenochtitlan. From the indepence the mexicas started the proccess that took them to create its new city. This process included the triple aliance with Texcoco and Tlacopan, the war called "guerras floridas" and the conquest of some towns. Moctezuma Ilhuicamina the great converted this power in an impire that included Puebla, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, and part of Veracruz. In 1500 the Mexicas was the greatest power in all Mesoamerican and Tenochtitlan a very big city in all the world.

The spanish amazement expressed by the cronist that knew the city talk about the size of the mexica capital and the organization of the social functions in it. A lot of the soldiers of Cortes didn't knew a city that big. A glance to Tenochtitlan could have been a great amount of canoes (around 60 thousand in a day) coming and going from the center to the margins of the city. The city had around 50 great buildings and hundreds of houses of one floor.