The New Student's Reference Work/Ixtapalapa

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Ixtapalapa (ēs′-tä-pä-lä′ pä), a town of Mexico, 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.