El Sargento

{{Short description|Tree in Chapultepec, Mexico City}}

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| image_caption = The dead tree's trunk in 2018

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| location = Mexico City, Mexico

| coordinates = {{Coord|19|25|9.6|N|99|10|51|W|type:landmark_region:MX|display=inline,title}}

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El Sargento is a Mexican cypress tree in Mexico City's park Chapultepec, planted by Nezahualcoyotl {{Circa|1460}}. After living for approximately 500 years, the tree died in 1969,{{Cite web|url=http://chapultepec.cdmx.gob.mx/sitio/ahuehuete-de-moctezuma-el-sargento-o-el-centinela|title=Tribuna Monumental y Ahuehuete "El Sargento"|website=Bosque de Chapultepec|access-date=2018-12-20|archive-date=2018-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221041623/http://chapultepec.cdmx.gob.mx/sitio/ahuehuete-de-moctezuma-el-sargento-o-el-centinela|url-status=live}} and its trunk stands today at around 50 feet tall.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mexico.mx/en/articles/10-places-you-hadn-t-seen-in-chapultepec-park |title=Mexico.mx |access-date=2018-12-20 |archive-date=2018-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221050330/https://www.mexico.mx/en/articles/10-places-you-hadn-t-seen-in-chapultepec-park |url-status=dead }}

File:Mexico City (2018) - 318.jpg|Sign for the tree, 2018