Officially called the Central de Abasto in Mexico City (CEDA) and located in the Iztapalapa Delegation of Mexico City, is the main wholesale and retail of consumer products in the Metropolitan Area of ??Mexico, specialist stores, food, fruit , vegetables, flowers, vegetables, poultry, meat, seafood and greens. For cash flow, it is considered the second largest shopping center in Mexico after the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) and the largest in Latin America and the world
The Central de Abasto is distributed in a total area of ??327 hectares and is the world's largest, with a volume of food and basic products 30,000 tons and storage capacity for 122 thousand tons wholesale center, transported daily by 52 000 vehicles of all tonnages. The daily influx of visitors, mostly retail merchants, is 300 thousand daily, attended by about 70 thousand employees in various actividades.4 5
It is followed in size, Rungis Market France, with 232 hectares, and Mercamadrid, with 176 hectares.