ancient ruins
Teotihuacan
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.
16 km · about 20 min drive
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Temascalapa
México, Mexico · North America
About Temascalapa
Temascalapa is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Tepojaco, 16km from Teotihuacan.
Temascalapa is in México, Mexico, with about 6,300 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tepojaco, about 5 km away.
Temascalapa is a city in the State of Mexico in Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located to the north of Mexico City and in the west of the municipality, close to the border with the state of Hidalgo and connected with the city of Tizayuca by land. ThisRead more
locality was formerly known as San Francisco Temascalapa.
The municipality covers an area of 168.26 km2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 33,063.
The region is noted for drug cartel activity after the death of Netflix's location scout, Carlos Muñoz Portal, for the TV Series Narcos: Mexico, who was found dead in his car with multiple gunshot wounds on September 15, 2017.
Martha Rodríguez Martínez, a member of the Temascalapa city council, died on January 31, 2021, after being run over by a tractor-trailer that refused to stop while the mayor carried out an awareness-raising operation about health measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Temascalapa?
Within an hour or so of Temascalapa: Teotihuacan (16 km), Museo Nacional del Virreinato (36 km), Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte) (42 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (44 km).
Are there any good drives near Temascalapa?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Temascalapa?
Temascalapa is in México, Mexico, about 5 km from Tepojaco.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,314
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- México
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.8277, -98.9017
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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Worth the detour from Temascalapa
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Museo Nacional del Virreinato
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.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte)
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.
42 km · about 50 min drive
cathedral
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
44 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
50 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
50 km · about 60 min drive
restaurant
Casa de los Azulejos
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.
50 km · about 60 min drive
racetrack
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
51 km · about 60 min drive
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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