El Sargento is a Mexican cypress tree in Mexico City‘s park Chapultepec, planted by Nezahualcoyotl c. 1460. After living for approximately 500 years, the tree died in 1969,[1] and its trunk stands today at around 50 feet tall.[2]
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Sign for the tree, 2018
References
- ^ “Tribuna Monumental y Ahuehuete “El Sargento”“. Bosque de Chapultepec. Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ^ “Mexico.mx”. Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
External links
Media related to El Sargento at Wikimedia Commons
