Chapultepec Castle sits atop Chapultepec Hill in Chapultepec Park. The name Chapultepec comes from the Nahuatl word chapoltep?c which means "on grasshopper hill". It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at an elevation of 2,325 meters (7,628 feet) above sea level. The hill site was a sacred site to the Aztecs and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including as a military academy, imperial residence, presidential house, observatory and currently the National Museum of History.
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