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Fifty years ago, the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) had fewer than three million inhabitants. In the year 2000, the population was six times larger, with over 18 million people. In terms of population, the MCMA is the second largest city in the world, exceeded only by the metropolitan area of Tokyo with 26 million inhabitants (World Bank, 2001). As the nation’s capital, Mexico City is home to the national political institutions, the greatest concentration of economic investments, and most of the country’s industrial and financial infrastructure.
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The exception to this pattern is the period 1990-1994. During this period, in part as an effect of the aggregation of the data, the DF shows a fast economic growth.
Mexico’s National Electric System is divided into the following nine areas: 1) Northwest, 2) North; 3) Northeast, 4) West, 5) Central, 6) East, 7) Peninsular, 8) Northern Baja California and 9) Southern Baja California (SENER, 1998).
Information on CORENA is available on the following website: http://sma.df.gob.mx/sima/corena/corena.htm.
Ejido property was originally intended for agricultural purposes by people living in specific communities. But beginning in the 1940s, some of this land was being sold illegally to people in search of a home site. Ejidal land was established after the Mexican revolution and is agricultural land held by the community but worked individually by named peasants, In 1988 almost 45% of the land in the DF and just over 50% in the EM was ejidal (Pick and Butler, p 376, 1997).
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Lezama, J.L. et al. (2002). Forces Driving Pollutant Emissions in the MCMA. In: Molina, L.T., Molina, M.J. (eds) Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity. Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0454-1_3
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