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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Cuautlacingo
México, Mexico · North America
About Cuautlacingo
Cuautlacingo is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Santiago Tolman, 6km from Teotihuacan.
Cuautlacingo is in México, Mexico, with about 3,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Santiago Tolman, about 4 km away.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Cuautlacingo?
Within an hour or so of Cuautlacingo: Teotihuacan (6 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (42 km), Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (46 km), Museo Nacional del Virreinato (46 km).
Are there any good drives near Cuautlacingo?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Cuautlacingo?
Cuautlacingo is in México, Mexico, about 4 km from Santiago Tolman.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 3,428
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- México
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.6941, -98.7839
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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 Cuautlacingo
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cathedral
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
42 km · about 50 min drive
racetrack
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
46 km · about 55 min 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.
46 km · about 55 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.
47 km · about 55 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.
47 km · about 55 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.
47 km · about 55 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.
51 km · about 60 min drive
Driving roads near Cuautlacingo
- 69 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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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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