Nevado de Toluca National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national Park in Mexico
About Nevado de Toluca National Park
In Mesoamerican times, Nevado de Toluca was a spiritual center by the Aztecs and their forebears. The earliest Spanish colonists also found the mountain to be a source of spiritual power. The area was decreed to be a national park by President Lazaro Cardenas in 1936 when the need for environmental preservation was recognized. The government wanted to preserve the dense pine forests and also recognized the need to protect the mountain as an important water source for recharging underground aquifers. Unfortunately, Mexico City and the entire surrounding State of Mexico grew into a burgeoning megalopolis and the population of nearby Toluca expanded four-fold, exceeding more than a million inhabitants as industry was developed in the city. The growing population puts pressure on nearby rural
Nevado de Toluca National Park Travel Guide Sections
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