Short answers, pulled from the story.
Toluca is located at 2,600 meters above sea level, making it the highest capital city in both Mexico and all of North America. Its altitude gives the city a temperate climate year-round, with average temperatures ranging between 6 and 25 degrees Celsius in spring and summer and as low as -5 degrees Celsius in winter.
The name Toluca derives from the Nahuatl word Tollocan, which the Aztecs applied to the area in 1473. It combines the name of the god Tolo with the locative suffix can, meaning "place of Tolo". Before Aztec renaming, the Matlatzinca founders called the settlement Nepintahihui, meaning "land of corn".
The Cosmovitral is a botanical garden housed in a downtown Toluca building originally designed in 1910 as a municipal market. It contains more than 400 plant species and a series of stained glass windows considered the largest in the world, designed by Mexican artist Leopoldo Flores. The glass panels, measuring 3,200 square meters in total, were inaugurated in 1980 and completed in 1990.
Deportivo Toluca Futbol Club was founded in 1917 and has competed in the Liga MX since the 1950s. The club, nicknamed the Diablos Rojos, had one of the most successful periods in Mexican football during the late 1990s and 2000s, winning multiple league championships. It plays at Estadio Nemesio Diez, inaugurated in 1954 with a capacity of approximately 30,000 spectators.
Chrysler has operated a car assembly plant in Toluca since 1968 on a 220-acre complex employing 2,300 people. BMW manufactures its 3, 5, 7, and X5 series locally and offers armored variants. Mercedes-Benz produces the C-Class, E-Class, and G-Class in Toluca and upgrades other models to armored vehicles at the same facility.
The city adopted the name Toluca de Lerdo in 1861 in honor of President Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada. Before that, the city had been recognized as a city by royal decree as early as 1662 and was officially named a city by King Carlos IV of Spain on the 12th of September 1799.