{"id":7075,"date":"2026-06-27T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:14:48","slug":"7075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/2026\/06\/27\/7075\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:20px;padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:20px;min-height:635px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-168\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/elreportivodeolimpia.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sports-tools.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7-4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7076 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7-4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7-4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El nombre viene del n\u00e1huatl **M\u0113xihco*, el nombre sagrado de **Tenochtitl\u00e1n*, capital del Imperio Azteca (hoy Ciudad de M\u00e9xico). Su etimolog\u00eda es debatida:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; La teor\u00eda m\u00e1s aceptada lo deriva de **M\u0113tztli* (luna) + *xictli* (ombligo) + *co* (lugar): *&#8221;en el ombligo de la luna&#8221;**, refiri\u00e9ndose al lago Texcoco rodeado de monta\u00f1as como un ombligo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Otra teor\u00eda lo relaciona con *M\u0113xitli*, nombre esot\u00e9rico del dios Huitzilopochtli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Una tercera propone que viene de **metl* (maguey) + *xictli**: &#8220;ombligo del maguey&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuando los espa\u00f1oles conquistaron Tenochtitl\u00e1n en 1521, llamaron a la nueva colonia *Nueva Espa\u00f1a, pero el nombre popular *M\u00e9xico persisti\u00f3 y fue adoptado oficialmente al independizarse en 1821<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Capital: Ciudad de M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fundaci\u00f3n: 1325 (Tenochtitl\u00e1n) \/ 1521 (colonial)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Idioma de origen: N\u00e1huatl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Significado: Lugar del ombligo de la luna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La Ciudad de M\u00e9xico lleva en su nombre una de las historias m\u00e1s complejas de todo el continente. Antes de ser la capital mexicana fue Tenochtitl\u00e1n, la magn\u00edfica capital del Imperio azteca, fundada en 1325 por el pueblo mexica en una isla del lago Texcoco. Cuando el conquistador espa\u00f1ol Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s la tom\u00f3 en 1521, la renombr\u00f3 Nueva Espa\u00f1a y luego impuso el nombre M\u00e9xico-Tenochtitl\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La palabra M\u00e9xico proviene del n\u00e1huatl, la lengua de los aztecas. Existen varias interpretaciones de su significado. La m\u00e1s difundida entre los ling\u00fcistas es que deriva de &#8216;Mextli&#8217;, uno de los nombres del dios de la luna y de la guerra, y del sufijo &#8216;-co&#8217;, que indica lugar. De all\u00ed, M\u00e9xico significar\u00eda &#8216;lugar del ombligo de la luna&#8217; o &#8216;lugar donde vive Mextli&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otra interpretaci\u00f3n, tambi\u00e9n muy citada, vincula el nombre con &#8216;metl&#8217; (maguey) y &#8216;xictli&#8217; (ombligo), lo que dar\u00eda &#8216;lugar en el ombligo del maguey&#8217;. El maguey era una planta sagrada para los mexicas, fuente de alimento, bebida, fibra y medicina. Esta interpretaci\u00f3n resalta el v\u00ednculo profundo entre el nombre de la ciudad y la cultura que la cre\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El pueblo que fund\u00f3 la ciudad se llamaba a s\u00ed mismo &#8216;mexica&#8217; \u2014no aztecas, nombre que les impusieron los historiadores posteriores, derivado de Aztl\u00e1n, el m\u00edtico lugar de origen. Cuando el gentilicio &#8216;mexicano&#8217; comenz\u00f3 a usarse durante la independencia (1821), tom\u00f3 prestado el nombre que los propios mexicas se hab\u00edan dado a s\u00ed mismos y a su ciudad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La fundaci\u00f3n de Tenochtitl\u00e1n est\u00e1 rodeada de mitos. Seg\u00fan la tradici\u00f3n, los mexicas buscaban el lugar indicado por un presagio divino: un \u00e1guila sobre un nopal devorando una serpiente. Lo encontraron en una isla del lago Texcoco, y all\u00ed construyeron su ciudad. Ese s\u00edmbolo hoy figura en el centro de la bandera mexicana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DATO DESTACADO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La Ciudad de M\u00e9xico est\u00e1 construida sobre el antiguo lago Texcoco. Por eso se hunde varios cent\u00edmetros cada a\u00f1o: el suelo lacustre comprimido cede bajo el peso de la ciudad m\u00e1s grande del continente americano.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"plain-container","ast-site-content-layout":"normal-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7077,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elreportivo.cl\/olimpia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}