Lomas Verdes

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Lomas Verdes is a middle class neighborhood located in the county of Naucalpan de Juárez, in the state of Mexico. The community was developed in the late 1960s and is near Ciudad Satélite (which was founded in 1957.) Lomas Verdes means "Green Hills" in Spanish, as the terrain had a set of smooth hills covered with green grass and other wild vegetation.

The neighborhood consists of several sections: La Alteña I, II and III, La Soledad, and the sections I, II, III, IV, V and the now in construction sección VI. To the North, Lomas Verdes borders the county of Atizapán de Zaragoza, to the south and the west with others neighborhoods of Naucalpan, and to the east with the ancient colonial town of Santa Cruz del Monte.

After its foundation Lomas Verdes was a so called "bedroom community", as the majority of the residents commutes México City (7 miles far away) for work. Today, twenty years after founding, there are a strong commercial and services sector in the zone.

The most important artery serving the area is the Súper Avenida Lomas Verdes, which connects the neighborhood with the Periferico that leads direct into the heart of Mexico City. As all Latin American urban developments the increasing growth of the population and the unplanned urban strategy overwhelmed the infrastructure and now traffic jams, accidents, air pollution and chaotic expansion have reduced the quality of the life of the inhabitants.