Benito Juárez, Mexico City — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Benito Juárez?

The landmarks of Benito Juárez gather along Avenida de los Insurgentes and its side streets. The Torre WTC rises over Colonia Nápoles as the borough's tallest marker, and the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros stands beside it, its faceted shell painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros with one of the largest murals ever made. Parks anchor the quieter colonias.

Parque Hundido sinks below street level in Del Valle with cast reproductions of pre-Hispanic sculpture, while Parque de los Venados gives Portales a wide civic plaza around its own Metro stop.

What is the history of Benito Juárez?

Benito Juárez took its present form in 1941, when Mexico City drew new borough lines across the flat farmland south of the old core. The colonias came fast. Mixcoac and San Pedro de los Pinos had been separate villages, but the grid of Colonia del Valle, Narvarte, and Nápoles filled the fields between them as the capital pushed outward and swallowed the market gardens that had fed it for generations.

Avenida de los Insurgentes became the spine that tied the new borough together.

Where is Benito Juárez?

Benito Juárez covers a flat inland stretch of Mexico City, roughly 26 square kilometres of dense colonias between Mixcoac and the Metro Zapata junction on Avenida de los Insurgentes.