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Description: Mexico City is the country’s largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center. This city was built on an island of lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325. And it was almost destroyed in 1521 but then it was rebuilt by the Spanish.
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This graph show as that in June it is a high temperature that reaches the 25°C, and also that on January and December the temperature it is below the 10°C.
To say more the rainfall is very high in 3 month, that the average reaches to the 110 milliliters and low in the others months that the average is low than 30 milliliters. In addition there is a big difference between the months


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