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.
13 km · about 25 min drive
México, Mexico · North America
Tepexpan works well as a base: 5 minutes from Tezoyuca, 13km from Teotihuacan.
Tepexpan is a city located in México, Mexico. With a population of 102,667, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Tepexpan 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 Tepexpan to your route.
Tepexpan is the largest town in the Acolman municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico. The population is 102,667.
One of the most interesting aspects of this town is the discovery of an early Mesoamerican skeleton commonly referred to as "Tepexpan man". Recent research tries to show that the skeleton was not thatRead more
of a man but that of a woman. The woman was apparently trampled by a raging mastodon around 11,000 BCE. The proposition that Tepexpan Man was a woman has been advanced by one Mexican archaeologist based on DNA analysis. His peers at INAH have not accepted his conclusions and he has not submitted his analysis in a paper for peer review. Thus, until peer review confirms his work one must leave the matter as conjecture. Additional mammoth fossils from the Late Pleistocene show this site the nearby Santa Isabel Ixtapanto be mammoth kill sites. Mammoths were driven into bogs where they were severely slowed and eventually killed with fluted points as early as 9000 BCE or as late as 7000 BCE.
Tepexpan can be considered one of the most important towns in the municipal region of Acolman. It has many resources, among these: obsidian and pewter.
Tepexpan has a church named Santa Maria Magdalena, located near the central plaza. It is one oldest of the region and it was built near the first years of the Spanish conquest.
It has five districts:
Anahuac 1 Sección ( Tepexpan )
Anahuac II Sección ( Tepexpan )
Chimalpa ( Tepexpan )
Los Reyes ( Tepexpan )
Paraje El Faro
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Tepexpan is located in México, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 19.6139 latitude, -98.9364 longitude.
Tepexpan has a population of approximately 102,667 people, making it a city in Mexico.
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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.
13 km · about 25 min drive
cathedral
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
24 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
28 km · about 35 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.
29 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
29 km · about 35 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.
29 km · about 35 min 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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
museum
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
33 km · about 40 min drive
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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