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[Snowmeow]

Sorryy for asking such a basic question. I'm not in Mexico yet so I know very little about the place.

Firstly, Distrito Federal is an area in Mexico City, right?

For this address:

Av. del Conscripto y Anillo Perif�rico = avenue?
Col. Lomas de Sotelo = What's this? or who?
Miguel Hidalgo = suburb of the city? there is more than one place with this label in Mexico City
11200 M�xico, D.F. = postal code and city? what's 11200

Can't find it on google maps because I think google is using different names for places

[Mrs L]

Distrito Federal (D.F.) is Mexico City, sometimes referred to as just 'Mexico' by people, 'Mexico DF' is the destination on the front of buses. Nobody calls it 'la ciudad de Mexico', that's just an English translation.

As for the address, the first line will be the street.
Col = 'colonia', that's the neighbourhood.
Not sure about the 'Miguel Hidalgo' bit, sure one of our many DF residents will be able to help you with that.
The number is the postcode, it sometimes has CP (codigo postal) written in front of it.
Mexico DF is the city as well as the state, an address somewhere else in Mexico would have both eg Guadalajara, Jalisco (city, state) or Morelia, Michoacan.

Hope that helps

[notamiss]

Av. del Conscripto y Anillo Perif�rico Intersection between Conscripto Avenue and the Perif�rico (ring road)
Col. Lomas de Sotelo "Colonia" = neighbourhood
Miguel Hidalgo "delegaci�n" (borough)
11200 M�xico, D.F. = postal code and city? Yes. 11200 is the postal code, and Mrs. L. has explained about the rest.

The "colonia" is an essential part of the address, because while street names aren't necessarily unique within the city or even within a borough, they are unique within a colonia.

The Federal District (Distrito Federal; DF) is like a state, analagous to the District of Columbia in the USA. DF and Mexico City are often used synonomously.

The metropolitan area of Mexico City fills the DF and spreads beyond its borders into the neighbouring State of Mexico (Estado de M�xico, often abbreviated Edomex).

The Federal District is divided into 16 boroughs, called delegaciones in Spanish (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_city#Boroughs). Actually, if the borough is omitted from the address, the letter will still get there: the essential parts of the address are street and number, colonia, postal code and city/state (i.e. "M�xico DF").

BTW, this is the location indicated by the address: http://tinyurl.com/5wdz57

[Snowmeow]

Thank you for the explanation!

Just saw your map and I see that I was looking in the wrong area. The airport also has "Miguel Hidalgo" on it so for starters I thought it was near there.

It makes sense that the place that you found is at a sports complex because I was looking for the office of a national sports federation.

Actually there appears to be multiple stadium complexes in Mexico City. The biggest one is just northwest of Cuidad Universitaria which I now see is the Olympic Stadium. There is a nicer one to the southeast called Estadio Azteca.