A general view shows the "Plaza de las Tres Culturas", or the plaza of the three cultures, in the central Tlatelolco area of Mexico City. Archeologists have discovered the ruins of the 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought. The pyramid could have been built in 1100 or 1200, signalling that Aztecs began to develop their civilisation in the mountains of central Mexico earlier than believed.
Dancers take the stage at the Guelaguetza, a nine-day folkloric festival celebrating Oaxaca state's seven cultural regions through dance, parades and pageantry, in the southern city of Oaxaca. Guelaguetza means "offering" in the Mexican Indian Zapotec language, and historians believe different versions of the festival have been celebrated since pre-Colonial times.
The Cathedral in Oaxaca's main plaza.
Aerial view of the Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City.
Buildings around Zocalo Square are decorated with lights as part of Christmas celebrations in Mexico City.
Hundreds of Monarch butterflies line a tree in the Pedro Herrada butterfly sanctuary, on a mountain in the Mexican state of Michoacan. The Monarchs are the only migratory insects in their species and travel 4000 kilometres (around 2500 miles) twice a year between their summer home in Canada and their winter home in Mexico.
Mexican street vendors sell different products outside downtown Mexico City's cathedral. Battered stone facades and crumbling roofs across historical centre area betray little of this metropolis' one-time nickname, "The City of Palaces". Plagued by pollution, traffic and poverty, the city centre is a crucible of the problems afflicting the nation at large, and renovation means confronting bureaucracy, various mafias, financing hurdles and at times the forces of nature.
A waiter shows a bottle of tequila dedicated to late Mexican actor and comedian Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" to commemorate his 100th birthday this year, in Mexico City.
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