México, Mexico · North America
San Nicolás el Oro is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Colonia Cuauhtémoc, 26km from Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
San Nicolás el Oro is a town located in México, Mexico. With a population of 1,435, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, San Nicolás el Oro sits in Mexico, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Mexico City time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add San Nicolás el Oro to your route.
El Oro is one of 125 municipalities in the State of Mexico within the United Mexican States. The municipal seat is the town of El Oro de Hidalgo. The name El Oro (Spanish: [el ˈoɾo] ) means "the gold" in Spanish. It has subsequently been given an alternative Nahuatl name of "Teocuitlatl", meaning "sacred excrement"Read more
(referring to gold). Its seal, in the form of an Aztec glyph, contains elements referring to gold and to caves, of which there are many in the municipality.
The municipality is located in the northwest of the State of Mexico, 96 km from the state capital of Toluca, and is bounded by the municipalities of Temascalcingo to the north, Jocotitlán to the east, San Felipe del Progreso and San José del Rincón to the south, and by the state of Michoacán to the west. As of 2005, the municipal seat with the formal name of El Oro de Hidalgo had a population of 5,797, and the municipality of El Oro had a population of 31,847. While the settlement made its name as a major gold- and silver-mining town from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, the mines have since been tapped out and the town is turning to tourism for economic development.
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San Nicolás el Oro is located in México, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 19.8059 latitude, -100.1175 longitude.
San Nicolás el Oro has a population of approximately 1,435 people, making it a town in Mexico.
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
Full driving guide for Mexico1 notable place within an hour's drive.
natural wonder
Fir forests on the Michoacán–State of Mexico border where hundreds of millions of monarchs cluster so densely from November to March that branches bend under them. El Rosario and Sierra Chincua are the main road-accessible sanctuaries.
26 km · about 30 min drive
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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