# Xitle

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{{Short description|Volcano in Mexico City}}
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'''Xitle''' ({{IPA|nah|ʃitɬe}} [Nahuatl](/source/Nahuatl_language), "navel") is a [monogenetic volcano](/source/monogenetic_volcano) in the [Ajusco](/source/Ajusco) range in [Cumbres del Ajusco National Park](/source/Cumbres_del_Ajusco_National_Park). It is located in the [Tlalpan](/source/Tlalpan) borough in the southwestern part of [Mexico City](/source/Mexico_City). It is an [ash cone](/source/Volcanic_cone) volcano with a conical form, round base, altitude of approximately 300m, and a slope between 30° and 40°.

Xitle erupted during the period AD 245-315, according to the results of [radiocarbon dating](/source/radiocarbon_dating).<ref name="Siebe">{{cite journal | url=http://www.geo.mtu.edu/EHaz/ConvergentPlatesClass/Chichinautzin/Siebe-xitle.pdf | title=Age and archaeological implications of Xitle volcano, southwestern Basin of Mexico-City | author=Siebe C. | journal=Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | year=2000 | volume=104 | issue=1–4 | pages=45–64 | doi=10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00199-2| citeseerx=10.1.1.535.6515 }}</ref> Among the consequences of this eruption were the formation of the [Pedregal de San Ángel](/source/Jardines_del_Pedregal) lava fields, to the south of the [Mexican Federal District](/source/Mexican_Federal_District). [Cuicuilco](/source/Cuicuilco), one of the most refined cities of [Mesoamerica](/source/Mesoamerica), was destroyed and covered by lava. The subsequent [diaspora](/source/diaspora) of the Cuicuilcans, and the attendant diffusion of their culture across most of central Mexico, influenced important cultural changes in the nearby power center of [Teotihuacan](/source/Teotihuacan).

According to some other sources, a series of big volcano eruptions, and the destruction of Cuicuilco took place in the 1st century BC.<ref>Susan Toby Evans, David L. Webster, eds, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vZ3DAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 ''Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia.''] Routledge, 2013 {{ISBN|1136801855}} p76</ref>

==See also==
*[Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin](/source/Sierra_de_Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin)
==References==
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*''This article draws heavily on the [corresponding article](/source/%3Aes%3AXitle) in the [Spanish-language Wikipedia](/source/%3Aes%3APortada), which was accessed in the version of 11 June 2006.''

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Category:Landforms of Mexico City
Category:Volcanoes of Mexico City

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