Encompassing a couple of square kilometers, the lot of El Salado is located east of Lake Texcoco territory. Towards 2002, this lot looked like those ejidos of Southern Lake Texcoco: an arid land storing the remainders of hastily built, and abruptly demolished houses. Here, it is impossible to find signs of infrastructure allowing the houses to function, communicate, or have demarcation. Not unlike the Hidalgo y Carrizo Lot in the southwestern area of Lake Texcoco, El Salado is a precariously urbanized land, seeming ambiguously available and restricted, derelict and plundered. This lot borders El Caracol in the west, a perfect circle in the soil, used by a now-defunct company as a water still for extracting salt and caustic soda. Bordering with Ecatepec to the north, El Caracol still looks like a round blue spot in the middle of a map full with irregular, interrupted lines. To the south, the immense plateau of ancient Lake Texcoco spreads. It was until recently a grassy prairie, some parts of which became desert in the dry season, and flooded during the rain season. The lot, a triangle in the middle of these three territories, sometimes merges with their shifting borders. [...]
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