México, Mexico · North America
Santa María Apaxco is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Colonia 3 de Mayo (La Cruz), 46km from Teotihuacan.
Santa María Apaxco is a town located in México, Mexico. With a population of 3,747, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Santa María Apaxco 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 Santa María Apaxco to your route.
Apaxco de Ocampo is a town and the municipal seat of the Apaxco municipality, Mexico State in Mexico. The town sits at an elevation of 2,195m. Its population was 13,836 in 2010, and 15,171 as of 2025.
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Santa María Apaxco is located in México, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 19.9552 latitude, -99.1868 longitude.
Santa María Apaxco has a population of approximately 3,747 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 Mexico8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
A vast former Jesuit college at Tepotzotlán whose Church of San Francisco Javier holds Mexico's most overwhelming set of gilded Churrigueresque altarpieces: a wall-to-wall gold explosion, plus colonial art across the cloisters.
27 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
The massive pre-Aztec city featuring the towering Pyramids of the Sun and Moon and the grand Avenue of the Dead, once one of the largest cities in the ancient world.
46 km · about 55 min drive
cathedral
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
53 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Hidalgo's "Little Cornwall" at 2,700 m: red-roofed houses, a Cornish cemetery whose graves face England, and 30 bakeries selling pastes, the Mexican descendant of the Cornish pasty.
57 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
58 km · about 65 min drive
cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
58 km · about 65 min drive
restaurant
An 18th-century Mexico City palace sheathed on three sides in blue-and-white Puebla Talavera tile, its glass-roofed courtyard now the flagship Sanborns restaurant: breakfast under Orozco's staircase mural.
58 km · about 65 min drive
restaurant
Enrique Olvera's Polanco restaurant, where the signature mole madre is a black mole reheated for thousands of days and served as a single ring beside a fresh one. Two Michelin stars; book months ahead.
58 km · about 65 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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