The government considered creating a cemetery in the area, but since it was located far from the city center, the idea was discarded.
Instead, employees of the Secretariat of the Interior bought the land (then known as Cuatro Árboles) to build a neighborhood exclusively for civil servants.
[2] On 24 October 1924, president Álvaro Obregón authorized the sale but regretted that despite its size, the site was not large enough to accommodate all the employees.
[3] The radio-centric shape of the neighborhood, which resembles the design of a spider's web, is similar to that of Palmanova, a commune in Udine, Italy, or Place Charles de Gaulle, a road junction in Paris, France.
[2] In front of it, there is the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church (Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón), which was built in 1962.