Tezucuco

Tezucuco, a city of Mexico, on the east shore of the salt lake of the same name, 25 miles by rail ENE. of Mexico city. The ancient Acolhuacan, once the chief seat of Aztec culture, it still contains traces of old palaces and of a noble aqueduct, and is now the seat of glass-works. In the great drainage scheme for the valley of Mexico and Tezucuco, the sewage is carried off by a tunnel of 6½ miles and a canal of 30 miles. The salt lake has an area of 92 sq. m. Pop. 15,000.