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Tenochtitlan was built upon islets on Lake Texcoco. When the Mexica were subject to attacks by local Toltec warlords, they retreated to to an island where they saw an eagle standing on a cactus growing from rock. This had been prophesied to be the their final destination known as Tenochtitlan.

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