Valle de Chalco
Valle de Chalco Solidaridad | |
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Municipality | |
Location of Valle de Chalco Solidaridad in the State of Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 19°17′30″N 98°56′20″W / 19.29167°N 98.93889°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | State of Mexico
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| Region | Amecameca |
| Metro area | Greater Mexico City |
| Municipal Status | November 9, 1994 |
| Municipal Seat | Xico |
| Government | |
| • Type | Ayuntamiento |
| • Municipal President | Armando García Méndez (2022-2024) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 46.53 km2 (17.97 sq mi) |
| • Water | 2.76 km2 (1.07 sq mi) |
| Elevation (of seat) | 2,240 m (7,350 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Municipality | 391,731 |
| • Density | 8,400/km2 (21,760/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| Postal code (of seat) | 56610 |
| Area code | 55 |
| Demonym | Vallechalquense |
| Website | Official website (in Spanish) |
Valle de Chalco, officially named Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, is a municipality located in the State of Mexico, Mexico, on the eastern outskirts of the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Formerly part of the municipality of Chalco, it was split off as a separate entity in 1994, during the presidency of Salinas de Gortari, under his Programa Nacional de Solidaridad (National Solidarity Program). The municipality lies on the old bed of Lake Chalco, which was substantially drained in the nineteenth century. Technically, the municipal seat is Xico, after a high point of land that once formed an island, and now remains as a small hill within an otherwise monotonous, urban expanse. "Chalco" refers to the Chalca tribe, whose territory covered the area around the lake, prior to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
As of 2006, Chalco included part of the world's largest mega-slum, along with Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl and Ixtapaluca.