Ojo de Agua — Ojo de Agua Map Poster & Print

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Ojo de Agua Map Poster & Print

Ojo de Agua lies in the municipality of Tecámac, in the State of Mexico, on the northern side of the Valley of Mexico. Much of the area grew quickly from large housing developments, and the map shows it clearly: long, curving avenues enclosing neighbourhoods of small, repeated blocks, each with its own internal pattern of closes and short streets. The land is flat, so the street design is the whole story.

The Mexico–Pachuca highway runs nearby, a major corridor linking the area to the capital in the south and to Hidalgo in the north. Between the developments, open ground and older village streets still appear, giving the map a patchwork quality. The contrast between orderly housing estates and the irregular lanes of older settlements is one of its most interesting features.

The name means eye of water, a Spanish term for a spring, and it recalls a time when the area was defined by its water sources rather than by housing. Today it is one of the larger communities in the State of Mexico. An Ojo de Agua map poster reveals the repeated geometry of a new kind of city, seen from above.