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Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul)
The vibrant blue house where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, and died, filled with her art, personal objects, and Diego Rivera's collection.
1 km · about 5 min drive
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Coyoacán
Mexico City, Mexico · North America
About Coyoacán
Coyoacán works well as a base: 10 minutes from Colonia del Valle, 8km from Chapultepec Castle.
Coyoacán is in Mexico City, Mexico, with about 610,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Colonia del Valle, about 4 km away.
Coyoacán (US: KOY-oh-ə-KAHN; Spanish: [koʝoaˈkan] , Otomí: Ndemiñ'yo) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. The former village became the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl Coyōhuahcān, composed of coyōhuah ('one who has coyotes') and -cān ('place'), and therefore means 'placeRead more
of those who own coyotes', which the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dominated by the Tepanec people. Against Aztec domination, these people allied with the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523.
The village and later municipality of Coyoacán remained independent of Mexico City through the colonial period into the 19th century. In 1857, the area was incorporated into the then Federal District when this district was expanded. In 1928, the borough was created when the Federal District was divided into sixteen boroughs. The urban expansion of Mexico City reached the borough in the mid-20th century, turning farms, former lakes, and forests into developed areas, but many of the former villages have kept their original layouts, plazas, and narrow streets and have conserved structures built from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. This has made the borough of Coyoacán, especially its historic center, a popular place to visit on weekends.
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What is there to see near Coyoacán?
Within an hour or so of Coyoacán: Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul) (1 km), Chapultepec Castle (8 km), Six Flags México (8 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (9 km).
Are there any good drives near Coyoacán?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Coyoacán?
Coyoacán is in Mexico City, Mexico, about 4 km from Colonia del Valle.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 614,447
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Mexico City
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.3467, -99.1617
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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 Coyoacán
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
castle
Chapultepec Castle
A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.
8 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
Six Flags México
Mexico City's premier amusement park with world-class coasters and seasonal events in the south of the city.
8 km · about 15 min drive
museum
Museo Nacional de Antropología
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
9 km · about 15 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.
10 km · about 20 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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
racetrack
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
10 km · about 20 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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Coyoacán
- 62 kmPaso de CortésThe 3,600-m saddle between the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, reached by a paved mountain road from Amecameca: the route Cortés marched into the Valley of Mexico in 1519.
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