San Andrés Mixquic is in which Mexico City borough?

San Andrés Mixquic is in the Mexico City borough of Tláhuac.

Tláhuac occupies the southeastern edge of Mexico City and still contains rural communities, wetlands, canals, and agricultural areas. Mixquic is one of its best-known settlements, largely because of its elaborate Day of the Dead observances and historic church cemetery.

The area has deep connections to the former lakes of Chalco and Xochimilco. Mixquic itself began as a small island community, and its inhabitants relied on chinampa farming—intensively cultivated plots built in shallow lake waters. Although drainage projects transformed the landscape during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, farming remains important in parts of the borough.

A common mix-up is placing Mixquic in Xochimilco because both areas share lake-region history, canals, and traditions. They are separate Mexico City boroughs, however. Tláhuac became the present-day borough in the administrative reorganization of 1928, while its boundaries were finalized much later. The name Tláhuac is associated with Nahuatl and has several proposed interpretations, reflecting the region’s Indigenous history.