The New Student's Reference Work/Ixtapalapa

Ixtapalapa (ēs′-tä-pä-lä′ pä), a town of, ten miles southeast of the capital. It has a population of about 3,000. When Mexico was conquered, it was a large and important city, noted for the beautiful gardens of the Aztec kings, and was the residence of a brother of the ill-fated Aztec emperor, Moctezuma.